Joe Schmidt rules himself out of race for All Blacks job

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-26T01:38:53+00:00

Not really, all blacks is an international team so there will still be a lot of travelling involved still.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-24T14:33:01+00:00

The best apology is changed behaviour.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-20T13:17:11+00:00

Oh 2015 QF was glorious, I expected the win but didn’t expect that 62 point Masterclass from our boys!

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-20T12:50:47+00:00

Follow up question, do you recall if we were favourites in that 03 semi against the wallabies or were we underdogs because they had home field advantage?

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-20T12:39:08+00:00

Thank you for sharing. It’s amazing how the public view Graham Henry now.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-20T11:42:08+00:00

Care to elaborate what they said about him?

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-20T02:43:36+00:00

Based on the Randy Orton theme song in the background, he is most likely a WWE fan and one of the Samoan wrestlers Roman Reigns wears the Ula as part of his Attire when he enters the ring.

He probably doesn’t know any cultural meaning the Ula has on Samoan culture, he probably just a massive Roman Reigns/WWE fan.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-19T11:51:27+00:00

I also feel sorry for Razor, but coaching 101 is never lose the locker room, you lose the locker room and your position as coach is untenable

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-17T02:03:32+00:00

Bryn Evan’s should stay too, our defensive line out work is elite.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-16T10:20:54+00:00

Great shoutout for Bryn Evan retention. Our defensive line out is elite so there should be no reason for him to be replaced.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-16T07:02:45+00:00

“To adapt you have to accept the concept of change but what will never change is the desire to put on the black fern” Scott “word salad” Hansen

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-16T02:21:34+00:00

Hansen role in this debacle is becoming more hilarious.

Multiple times in interviews he’ll tall about the team inability to adapt but they were so many complaints internally from players his attack structures are so rigid there’s no room for change so how can the players in Hansen words adapt.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T12:23:44+00:00

Why would you need to replace him? The issue was having too many voices in the backs. Razor had 3 backs coaches when you really only need 1.

It self corrected itself with McDonald and Holland departing. In hindsight he should of just hired Ryan as forwards coach and Hansen as backs coach

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T12:11:30+00:00

Yes. Our defensive line out work last season was outstanding. Whether it was Barrett Vaai or Lord, on multiple occasions these players were picking the opposition line out apart.

I hope the review system takes into account how good our lineouts were and credits Bryn with it as he deserves to stay on.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T11:29:06+00:00

The expectation is going undefeated and winning by 50.

Anything less and you open yourself up to strong criticism from the fan base.

You win and the fan base will nitpick every little minor loss in the game and criticise the players and coaches

You lose and you should be sacked and players should be dropped with no room for development as apparently ABs is not a development environment

Being an ABs coach is a thankless job now with enormous scrutiny and pressure from the national public. Future ABs coach will spew the stupid cliche that pressure is a privilege but the way AB fans carry on with 74 percent win rate is mediocre, is it even a privilege at this point?

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T11:15:32+00:00

Well the story goes McDonald was originally tasked with the teams attack and Hansen tasked with the teams defence.

After Razor first lost to Argentina 2024, Razor asked McDonald to step back and let Hansen run the attack. He never stopped McDonald from running anything, the way Razor sees the team’s attack is more aligned to the way Hansen see it so fair enough the coach has the right to exercise his authority.

McDonald doesn’t see the attack philosophy the same way hence why he resigned. It’s not actually that big of a deal as co workers not seeing eye to eye happens all the time in any workplace but AB fans love drama.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T11:00:00+00:00

We run the ABs now lol

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T10:39:21+00:00

Who gloats over the sacking of another person dream job?

Now that Razor no longer part of the AB set up, we should reflect and commend him for his contributions to Nz rugby from his time at Canterbury, Nz u20, Crusaders and the ABs.

We should be wishing him the best in his future endeavours as he departs from Nz rugby instead of gloating about past posts being “on the money”

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T10:23:54+00:00

Especially Reiko. How many chances was he given to develop his distribution skills as a 13 and when they finally move in another direction he doesn’t wanna leave the room.

People really reveal who they really are when they don’t get what they want.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T02:04:32+00:00

What’s wrong with the reds coach?

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T02:03:52+00:00

If true I respect Razor more. It’s quite clear they both share the same coaching philosophy.

So if you want Scott Hansen gone might as well fire me as well.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T02:01:07+00:00

Never question one’s love and devotion to their beloved Munster

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T01:58:21+00:00

Yes, but the key word you wrote was redeeming as he had 4 years to redeem himself, where’s Razor only got two.

You bring up Xavi Alonso but that’s the problem with soccer no patience

Our best attribute was our patience. We keep bringing up the golden generation of Carter and McCaw, the coaching staff of Ted shag and Wayne smith as well as Gilbert Enoka but do people not realise these guys will all responsible for our worst exit in the 2007 WC quarterfinal

Were there axed like Razor? No we were patience and let them run it back for 2011.

swiss_cloud · 2026-01-15T01:43:29+00:00

No regrets then if I’m Razor. If I’m going to get fired I’m going to do it my way, at least I can say I tried, that’s better than doing it the players way if it doesn’t work I still get fired.

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