Did robbies Team ever loose by that much? McKenzie the mesiah,mind you if he had a good 15 and good 10 and 8 forwards with ticker,who knows
They weren't Robbies team and never were....that was the problem. As much as Dingo tried to be an Aussie, even down to adopting an Aussie accent for our media and reverting back to Kiwi for NZ media, he was never more than Graeme Henry's #2. He just didn't cut it as a National coach, he was pretty unimaginative and the players just didn't respect him any more. McKenzie will eventually get the best out of the players he's got, he's too good a coach not to. Remember that we're in rebuild mode, blooding new players while NZ seems to be relying on old Cheatin' Richie and his old forward pack...as good as he is, he's not going to last forever. We've got three good young flankers on the way up...Hooper played pretty well in a hopeless side on Saturday. He wasn't hammered by Richie. Our forwards are just fine. They played
really flucking badly on Saturday but they're not far off getting their Mojo back. Throwing new guys Mogg and Toouma in against the All Blacks was a major mistake even though we all thought they'd be brilliant. We were wrong. I don't know what Izzy Folau was doing but he was missing in action. Get rid of O'Connor from the start lineup and bring him on as an impact player in the second half. Put Izzy at fullback and hope Digby Ione comes back soon for the left wing spot, start Quade Cooper at 5/8 (
I know, he's a dickweed but love him or hate him, he's a good player) the Aussies picked up a tad when he was on the paddock...............We won't win in Wellington but I have faith that we'll at least play well enough to get the respect back.
