Hi Spiro, you are spot on with this article on several other points. Mediocrity similarly to Excellence do not just flash out overnight, it only does when one allows it to flourish and fester as a product of complacency, overabundance and lack of direction. The NZRU takes time to select and recruit and they do it extremely well and (oh surprise!) support and develop their talent even better. Moreover, they have good healthy memory for “their own”. The AB’s “drew” the previous week and did THAT HONEST INTENSE REVIEW you are talking about and up came the results: a much improved, committed and devastating AB’s. “The Benn Robinson and Michael Foley Saga” are to me two of those a dirty secret dilemmas of a “Da-Vinci-Code’s proportions. Both are mature players and proven performers in their form of 2014 just weeks ago. So “the Vindictive Grudge” is well and truly alive. These two non-selections are a mockery of “PROFESSIONALISSM”, these smacks of amateurish behavior and “poor investment decision” (underutilizing your assets is a sin in corporate life) It remains inexplicable, unexplained, unaccounted and unacceptable. I remember in my playing days between players, coaches and staff, when people asked about some doubted player? The acronym/expression NTA was commonly used. Meaning “Never-To-Tour-Again”, making a layer pay for some indiscretion or dead set honesty. I dare say, Benn must have spoken out or held his ground on something, and now paying for having the guts to speak his mind out. By the way I agree with Bob Dwyer too, Beale due to his “size” is an outside centre/wing. Incidentally, I think my case and lack of opportunities as a “Potential Scrum Coach” in Australia are very similar. Because since 1995 (when I coached the Australia’s U.21’s scrum, NEVER have I been invited to coach either full time, part time or as a consultant (I must have done a shocking job, LOL) Professionalism in rugby has com e with a serious dark side of greediness, dishonesty, treachery and duplicitousness! – Administrators and Coaches must be very careful with “dodgy decisions” because some of them may be deemed legally as “Restriction of Trade”, that is, if they don’t have sufficient grounds for omissions or droppings! (not to be confused by pigeon droppings) SPIRO, the million dollar question here is: “HOW MANY MORE MILLIONS of dollars does Australian Rugby need to lose or squander before they realise of putting aside $1M to set up a true blue NATIONAL SCRUM ACADEMY that I have been telling them since 1997 several times?” If they already have some sort of Scrum Academy, tell them the bleeding obvious in this case: IT IS NOT WORKING! And simply put, you can’t build a strong house with weak foundations. And I do not rest my case!! Best regards, TOPO
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:49:46 +0000
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