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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 1111231" data-attributes="member: 72520">I haven&#039;t read all of this thread but does anyone else think that people are way too confident in Robinson? Has the man ever coached internationally? He&#039;s had an incredible run with the Crusaders but he&#039;s also had what is comfortably the best squad of players in NZ and as a result of that success has been able to pluck the very best of young NZ talent from the other franchises (just this year they&#039;ve lured in Noah Hotham from the Highlanders and Taha Kemara from the Chiefs; comfortably the best young 9 and 10 in the country). I&#039;d be very sceptical of him for the same reasons that people are sceptical of Baxter and McCall; he&#039;s been able to build up a great culture and been able to bring in some very talented players but the international game is an entirely different beast.I&#039;m not saying that he wouldn&#039;t be a good international coach, but people act like he&#039;s the dream signing for any team to be able to get hold of when in reality he&#039;s an entirely unknown commodity at international level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 1111231, member: 72520"] I haven’t read all of this thread but does anyone else think that people are way too confident in Robinson? Has the man ever coached internationally? He’s had an incredible run with the Crusaders but he’s also had what is comfortably the best squad of players in NZ and as a result of that success has been able to pluck the very best of young NZ talent from the other franchises (just this year they’ve lured in Noah Hotham from the Highlanders and Taha Kemara from the Chiefs; comfortably the best young 9 and 10 in the country). I’d be very sceptical of him for the same reasons that people are sceptical of Baxter and McCall; he’s been able to build up a great culture and been able to bring in some very talented players but the international game is an entirely different beast. I’m not saying that he wouldn’t be a good international coach, but people act like he’s the dream signing for any team to be able to get hold of when in reality he’s an entirely unknown commodity at international level. [/QUOTE]

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