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Why do the blues keep on sucking?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 988426" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>So the blues have been the worst nz team for some time now. Why? Ok, change that, because you could just say the other teams have been good, but why have the blues not been better?</p><p></p><p>when I look at it there have been a number of things you can point to, different factors over time, but the one consistent factor has been poor decision making.</p><p></p><p>but why?</p><p>Just a culture that went bad that the coaches haven't been able to turn? Leading players to have little composure, little trust in their team mates?</p><p>Or is it just for whatever reason they never have the right players who can make good decisions? Certainly it seems that way, but why would that be? Just the rugby culture in the region doesn't develop smart, natural players? Each successive coach is making the same selection mistakes? I can sort of see this, that the coaches keep thinking it's an immaturity problem of the players, as they do stupid things, take too many risks. But the reality is they don't take as many risk as any other nz side, they just make the wrong decisions at the wrong time. In fact their tendency to create less opportunities means they get more desperate when there are opportunities. I do feel like each successive coach is trying to train them to be conservative, when being calm, confident and composed may be a better bet. But you can't necessarily train just anyone, they have to have the ability to look outside themselves, play as a team. They haven't seems to have many such players in a long time. And No longer do blues teams have the X factor players, certainly we haven't seen any good playmakers in some time.</p><p></p><p>Are all the good players from Auckland going to league?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 988426, member: 65365"] So the blues have been the worst nz team for some time now. Why? Ok, change that, because you could just say the other teams have been good, but why have the blues not been better? when I look at it there have been a number of things you can point to, different factors over time, but the one consistent factor has been poor decision making. but why? Just a culture that went bad that the coaches haven’t been able to turn? Leading players to have little composure, little trust in their team mates? Or is it just for whatever reason they never have the right players who can make good decisions? Certainly it seems that way, but why would that be? Just the rugby culture in the region doesn’t develop smart, natural players? Each successive coach is making the same selection mistakes? I can sort of see this, that the coaches keep thinking it’s an immaturity problem of the players, as they do stupid things, take too many risks. But the reality is they don’t take as many risk as any other nz side, they just make the wrong decisions at the wrong time. In fact their tendency to create less opportunities means they get more desperate when there are opportunities. I do feel like each successive coach is trying to train them to be conservative, when being calm, confident and composed may be a better bet. But you can’t necessarily train just anyone, they have to have the ability to look outside themselves, play as a team. They haven’t seems to have many such players in a long time. And No longer do blues teams have the X factor players, certainly we haven’t seen any good playmakers in some time. Are all the good players from Auckland going to league? [/QUOTE]
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