Unlikely as it may be I hope France smash them in this one. If anyone says I'm not a real fan I'd say real fans want the ABs to win the World Cup and our best chance of doing that is with Razor. Even if it happens mid-year 2022 he'll do a better job immediately (think Rassie with the boks) and if not him there's a whole freaking queue of better options. The more you look at the evidence, the more blindingly stupid it looks that Fozzie was promoted just because he was an assistant for X years. Allez les bleus lol.
dude, there is zero chance the coaching staff will be removed at this stage. I could imagine them adding to it, but that's going to be at a lower level - eg bringing in an advisor. With the players saying how the energy and culture is the best they've seen at the all blacks, and raving about how positive it is and how much everyone is learning all the time and off each other, and with plum tree saying foster is the best head coach he's worked with (and he's worked with a lot including Schmidt), with then already extending his contract and with very little time for a new regime to establish itself, a new coaching team simply isn't going to happen.
Ironically, based on what the coaches have said about their vision and approach, they may well be developing well for a World Cup. They identified our inability to adapt to England's game plan, and recognised that having a consistent (and typically highly effective) structure last time around set us up to be analysed and beaten - like eddie said he spent four years developing a plan to beat the all blacks, and we also saw Japan spend four years effectively developing plans for ireland and scotland. So they are trying to develop the players ability to adapt in the game, and think for themselves, with different structures depending on the situation.
That is a massive task. You'd have to expect us to look a bit rubbish from time to time with that approach. If you really do only care about the World Cup, then you can only really judge the coaches after the World Cup.
Personally I care about every game, and wish there was less emphasis on world cups. I'm all for them building our ability to adapt and not relying on structure, but I want us to win in the meantime. And while I agree with their approach in theory, in practice it has to be a balancing act; you need some structure too, I don't think we have enough of it. Ironically the structure we have is causing problems
I also fear we are reacting too much to that one game, similar to Hansen's reaction to losing to ireland in 2018, which led to the dropping of Franks.
Instead of attacking off playing too much of a first pod, we are choosing to either pick and go or shift it straight to midfield. We are then hoping to either make something of it or set up midfield to give us options on both sides of the field on our next phase. But as we have seen shifting it straight to midfield isn't working.
Apart from the overall structure not working, I'm not convinced mooar is a good enough coach to be in the all blacks setup. After tony brown pulled out, who was originally going to be the backs coach in both fosters team and Robertson's, foster had to search for someone last minute. Robertson chose McDonald (and you'd think Robertson could have chosen mooar if he wanted him), who then made himself unavailable to foster.
