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'95 back in the spotlight again, suzie at it again.
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 797272" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Anton Oliver gets stuck into John Mitchell in his autobiography.</p><p></p><p> First of all, there is the abysmal way the Mitchell treated the All Blacks manager at the time, Andrew Martin. </p><p></p><p>Then there was the incomprehensible new-age bullshÃt such as <em>"the journey is more important than the result"</em>. Well, we all ended up on a journey alright....to nowhere! </p><p></p><p>Then there was that fact that he and his assistant, Robbie Deans, turned the All Blacks into boozers again, after John Hart and Wayne Smith had tried so hard to move them away from the booze culture.</p><p></p><p>But worst of all, he made the crucial mistake of dropping key experienced players like Oliver, Mehrtens, Cullen and Randell, and then, when the inevitable happened and the Wallabies handed us our arses in the semi-final, he had the sheer gall to complain that he didn’t have enough experience on the park.</p><p></p><p>Mitchell has been chucked out of virtually every major coaching job he's had since then... the Force, the Lions and the Stormers. I can't recall him winning anything as a coach, and now, the poor old Yanks have been lumbered with him.</p><p></p><p> They have my sincerest sympathy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 797272, member: 20605"] Anton Oliver gets stuck into John Mitchell in his autobiography. First of all, there is the abysmal way the Mitchell treated the All Blacks manager at the time, Andrew Martin. Then there was the incomprehensible new-age bullshÃt such as [I]"the journey is more important than the result"[/I]. Well, we all ended up on a journey alright....to nowhere! Then there was that fact that he and his assistant, Robbie Deans, turned the All Blacks into boozers again, after John Hart and Wayne Smith had tried so hard to move them away from the booze culture. But worst of all, he made the crucial mistake of dropping key experienced players like Oliver, Mehrtens, Cullen and Randell, and then, when the inevitable happened and the Wallabies handed us our arses in the semi-final, he had the sheer gall to complain that he didn’t have enough experience on the park. Mitchell has been chucked out of virtually every major coaching job he's had since then... the Force, the Lions and the Stormers. I can't recall him winning anything as a coach, and now, the poor old Yanks have been lumbered with him. They have my sincerest sympathy! [/QUOTE]
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