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I was also asking Dave too because I'm from Currambine. So sharing a view over a beer was possible.
i certainly dont mean to offend anyone by my comments.
i will put it this way in rugby terms. that i have been involved in rugby for 32 years.
i understand now gerry. but i am working overseas so a beer is a tough call
Chaps, Did you see the article in the West yesterday saying that the team had been training for ten days under Mulvers and John was nowhere to be seen ? Doesn't feel good to me !
Ah of course....when the boys kicked those quokkas it was because they mistook them for Mitchell...likewise when Henners smacked Haig in the jaw...he thought it was Mitchell not Haig....it all makes sense again.
Ok. How about we make it easy for you. I'll start. Perhaps you'll open up more...
My name is Jehna. I'm 22. I'm a Libran. I like long walks on the beach, and ice cream, and chocolate, and vanilla milkshakes, and crunchy leaves, and the beach, and...is this getting too personal?
Buddy...we just want to know where your interest in rugby lies and your experience with the game. A simple..."I've been a fan since *insert year here* and make it a point to follow the game" would have sufficed...this isn't the spanish inquisition. You just tend to earn a little more respect if your opinions are supported by a) evidence; b) reputation.
"Remember lads, rugby is a team game; all 14 of you make sure you pass the ball to Giteau."
Joondalup Dave your opinion is welcome - but you seem genuine and informed which is scary as I always thought John Mitchell was held is high regard amongst players and staff alike - kinda hope you are winding us up but from the way you are blogging you seem to be coming from a Force Fan point of view.
Hope you'll feel free to join us at a TWF outing like the awards night with Richard Brown we are fairly normal on here but are maybe a little over protective of ourespecially as they never seem to be in the press for the right reasons. Albeit there does not seem to be a way of getting into the paper for the right reasons anyways.
Sincerely hope you are wrong - but welcome anyways.
61 years between Grand SlamsWas the wait worth it - Ya betta baby
Chris Rattue: Leading Teams fail the test with Black Caps
4:00AM Monday Dec 08, 2008
By Chris Rattue
Summer of cricket
As employees of the suddenly famous Leading Teams outfit analyse each other over where it all went wrong, our heroic Black Cap cricketers have been presented with a great chance to start putting things right.
I don't have any inside information about corporate team builders Leading Teams and have studiously avoided making contact, for fear that they might give me an assessment form to fill out. I hate filling out forms.
But if their cricket modus operandi is anything to go by, the entire company will have been locked in a room at the weekend pointing out each other's strengths and weaknesses after getting nudged towards the dressing room door by the new Black Caps coach, Andy Moles.
Sounds like this "Leading Teams" mob didnt do any good with NZ Cricket.
No place for mumbo jumbo
DOUG GOLIGHTLY COLUMN
Sunday News | Sunday, 07 December 2008
THE ALARM bells start ringing when you read this sort of corporate owner-operator nonsense: "We align teams by creating shared vision and behaviours that empower all members of the team to engage in open dialogue."
Yeah right!
It's all part of the "vision" from the brainwashing outfit that's been an integral part of the Black Caps during John Bracewell's watch.
Called Leading Teams this Aussie-based business cult should more accurately be named Misleading Times given how they've divided the Caps and confused some of our leading players.
And unfortunately, this mumbo-jumbo nonsense only resulted in the Black Caps regularly flying the white flag as they did in Adelaide, dropping to eighth in the world test rankings and becoming a laughing stock on the world stage.
Hopefully though it's all over and Misleading Times can go back to working with boofhead AFL sides and corporate outfits who have more money than sense in trying to artificially manufacture some sort of Mickey Mouse team environment.
Interestingly the Warriors used this outfit this year but after a dismal time decided to boot the self-styled new-age gurus into touch.
As one insider at the Warriors told me: "It resulted in confusion, resentment and distrust among the players. These players like each other and found it terribly tough to put the boot into their mates. It was a waste of time."
Mind you, we would never have realised the extent of this team tearing crap if Martin Crowe hadn't taken such a courageous stand.
Talking to me on Sportstalk (NewstalkZB and Radio Sport) on Monday night following the surrender in Adelaide the former Black Caps skipper and world-class batsmen pointed the finger at the corporate outfit and Bracewell for selling us short.
It was gutsy stuff from Crowe and revealed the passion he's got for the game. It probably also illustrates why we've lost some tough battle-hardened competitors like Stephen Fleming, Chris Cairns, Nathan Astle, fellow Sunday News columnist Craig McMillan, Scott Styris and Lou Vincent from the ranks.
None of those blokes would have been thrilled at the prospect of filling in a questionnaire at the end of a hard day's slog out in the middle. Rather a beer or a chat in the dressing room, words of encouragement and an assessment of the day.
Another well-regarded player, Ken Rutherford, backed up Crowe when he told me: "I'm not going to harp on about how we did things but this sort of assessment stuff doesn't impress me especially at the end of a day. Look, there's blokes you are never going to get on with but it's amazing what a six pack of Speights and a talk with all the guys will achieve at the end of the day.
"I agree with Martin and that's probably a first about this. You have to be self sufficient and you shouldn't have this sort of brainwashing nonsense going on.
"If you want to seek out someone outside the team for a chat then so be it but you have to make the first move.
"I know it's old fashioned but when you're in a team guess what you're in a team. You're all part of it and don't need idiots from Fantasyland telling you to assess your mates. It's whacky and that's being kind."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4784789a15599.html
Sums it up nicely."I know it's old fashioned but when you're in a team guess what you're in a team. You're all part of it and don't need idiots from Fantasyland telling you to assess your mates. It's whacky and that's being kind."
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Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
I am sure the other Super 14 teams are laughing, rubbing their hands together, with all this horrible bickering, back stabbing, rumours and inuendos, going on with our Team. Please stop, and get back to the business of getting our men ready for the new season. We will be sorry to see Gitz go, and any other player who follows like a herd of sheep, but go if they must..no one is indispensable.
Mitch has had to be tough, lets face it he has had a tough task, starting a new Super 14 from sratch, and bringing errant players into line for the sake of the Club's name. Gosh they aren't babies (are they??), dicipline has to be achieved! Give him a break, he has a job to do, and I know he's the best coach for us.
Roll on the season for 2009....Lets get on with it, and enough of all this "spitting the Dummy"....we don't want ANY prima donnas in our team...!!!:
Exile
Port Macquarie
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!" - Rocky Balboa