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Tana Umaga named as Counties Manukau Head Coach
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<blockquote data-quote="UilamOsa" data-source="post: 472723" data-attributes="member: 52898"><p>I think it's me showing my age. I prefer my coaches like my players to have served some type of apprenticeship, develop their coaching abilities/techniques to a higher level (Steve Hansen being the prime example) rather than come straight from Premier level Rugby or higher and going straight into higher level coaching. For every solid example their are plenty of failures (Craig Dowd, Jeff Wilson, (NRL) Nathan Brown & Brad Fitler) my hopes are that Counties and Tana will do well, but if they fail that it's not from lessons that should've been learnt earlier in their development.</p><p></p><p>For me it's like the Hammett situation (as much as I know about it), if he had a little bit more time under his belt maybe (it's a big maybe) he could've found a way to keep his players.* The Graham Henry of now is vastly different from the Auckland NPC Graham Henry and Blues Henry.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*Not that I'm complaining about having Ma'a & Piri <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UilamOsa, post: 472723, member: 52898"] I think it's me showing my age. I prefer my coaches like my players to have served some type of apprenticeship, develop their coaching abilities/techniques to a higher level (Steve Hansen being the prime example) rather than come straight from Premier level Rugby or higher and going straight into higher level coaching. For every solid example their are plenty of failures (Craig Dowd, Jeff Wilson, (NRL) Nathan Brown & Brad Fitler) my hopes are that Counties and Tana will do well, but if they fail that it's not from lessons that should've been learnt earlier in their development. For me it's like the Hammett situation (as much as I know about it), if he had a little bit more time under his belt maybe (it's a big maybe) he could've found a way to keep his players.* The Graham Henry of now is vastly different from the Auckland NPC Graham Henry and Blues Henry. *Not that I'm complaining about having Ma'a & Piri :D [/QUOTE]
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