Dave Rennie's simple outlook on where the All Blacks can improve

Leadership and culture. A Captain that inspires, and plays through 80 min without getting yellow/red cards often. Too many players playing in multiple positions. Coaching staff need to pick as many specialists in respective positions as possible. A consistent kicker to win those tight games. France, Scotland, S Africa, Argentina can depend on their kickers for vital points. AB had Dan Carter but not right now. give Dave Rennie two world cups ie 6-7 years to find success in the World Cup

because the quality is there

I’m afraid the player problem I’m talking about is not skills, it is like you said before “people don’t change”. The same thing that was evident under Foster was their for Razor, and will be for Rennie. The issue will come if Rennie doesn’t play much better rugby.

But I think we see the same thing, just as I’ve said in the past, coming from different perspectives/angles.

The real question is how you get them to perform and bring out their best on the field, with game plans that suit their strengths.

That is the key alright, but I don’t think its so much about suiting their strengths as suiting their tastes that are key in this example. But I will enjoy the less pragmatic attitude of backing our Kiwi DNA than “suiting” the optimal style of international rugby like Razor was going for.

it was clearly not heading in the right direction.

The facts simply disagree with you. But I like that you back your experience.

Thats the same for all modern coaches.

I’m not defending Razor, I’m critizing Kirk if you want to look at it from that angle. So the ‘problem’ is still present. ABs matches are also months away, don’t really see that as a relent option today 😜

Razor wasn’t coaching the team, everyone knows it and you know it…

And we probably don’t even know a tenth of the reality… since the internal report will never be released. Yes, he was incompetent — that’s not an opinion, it’s a fact today.

But anyway, what’s the point of continuing to defend Razor? He was fired… replaced by Rennie. Let’s look ahead and wait to see what Rennie will do with the All Blacks.

Constantly putting another coin in the Razor jukebox is pointless. He’s not there anymore. Accept it and move on.

Theres been no claims of incompetence from anyone (other than just hearing it from you of course), so I’m wondering what you’re thinking.

Nice, that’s classy, I’m trying to do the same lol sadly I think it’s actually stopping people from saying what they think.

I’ve heard claims of incompetence against Kirk though.

I haven’t read all your messages over the past two years, sorry.

You talk a lot about results and about the players who were selected. That’s not the core of the problem. That’s why our analysis differs.

The problem — and this is what you don’t want to hear — is the coaching. Razor had no idea what needed to be done to improve things. Coaching that he didn’t even fully take responsibility for himself.

Rennie could select 80 or 90% of Robertson’s players and make them play much better rugby. It’s not a player issue… because the quality is there. The real question is how you get them to perform and bring out their best on the field, with game plans that suit their strengths. Razor clearly failed in that area, which he had in any case completely delegated to his assistants. That setup was flawed and had to change.

I’ve been following this team for 30 years. I’ve watched all their matches for the past 25 years. I know the All Blacks fairly well (from my perspective as a spectator). I’ve seen their evolution over the past few years to other nations), and it was clearly not heading in the right direction.

Kirk quickly saw that many things weren’t working. He’s doing a major clean-up. That’s a good thing — New Zealand rugby will be better after this reorganization.

What incompetence am I talking about?

Is this a joke?

I think all of this has already been documented enough. We’re not going to add more fuel to it.

Stay with your position, which seems absurd to me, but I do not wish to offend you. Everyone has the right to have a different opinion.

I’m like the outcomes of the choice more and more. While JJ would have put a much needed broom to the players and attitude, Rennie has shown a lot of cohesion with Razors strategy and I think in the long run the continuity of what Razor had been doing the last two years is going to pay off more than simply getting the attitude right.

And theres the added bonus, other than not sounding dyslexic in interviews of course, that he can also sort all the different group dynamics out right.

So far so good.

Communicates to the point.

If he came out the gates about footy, learnings and points of difference I may have crapped my pants on behalf of all kiwis. They’ve been through enough.

But it is an interesting observation he’s making. Perhaps the finer details (the basics as he calls them) was missed by Robertson and co who were looking at the macro. And the stars. Or their navels. Who knows.

Anyway. I guess we’ll find out soon enough how quickly Rennie can turn things around.

171 days until 22 August, Ellis Park.

I want to surround our players with quality people.

Thank-you Dave

He has talked more about the game. and game structure than Robertson has in two and a half years.

Happy to see the All Blacks finally led by a real head coach, with clear, factual ideas — not lost in completely vague concepts

It was about time…