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The Aussies are better.
They have players who work together as a leadership group, and who can organize the team around the paddock.
The Kiwis are a one-trick pony, and are predictable, error prone, and who have a player who is very inexperienced as a captain. Getting yardage, and having good stats does not equate to good leadership skills. Bring back Simon Mannering.
Being a good player, does not mean you are a good coach either. Not that Kidwell was a good player/hall of famer, but the results speak for themselves.
Being expert in a field, does not make you a good teacher (my mathematics teacher was an example of that!:))
Picking the right coach is important.
The responsibility lies with the NZRL board. They need to take responsibility for the screw up. They need to do the due diligence. The results speak for themselves. They have a small window of opportunity to correct things.
NZ is a one trick pony. They rely on Shaun Johnson too much. They need a coach who can pull the team together, and create plays/system that can give the Kiwi team their own identity, which plays to their strengths. Going from an assistant coach head coach of the Kiwis is a Red Flag. They need someone who can get the best out of the players.
I honestly think Stacey Jones would do a better job as coach. If NZ cannot find good coaches from the pool of NZ coaches they have, then they should look elsewhere. They could try asking Craig Bellamy, Des Hasler, Michael Maguire, Trent Robinson, or even Anthony Griffin could even do a job for the Kiwis. If Kidwell is the best coach New Zealand can come up with, that’s worrying!
Kangaroos vs Kiwis: Six talking points from the Four Nations final
They’re missing Simon Mannering. His leadership, and his abilities would steer them to victory more than what you have been seeing. The truth holds for the Warriors. He needs to be in there, particularly in the leadership.
New Zealand Kiwis vs Scotland highlights: Late try sees Scotland secure draw
Concern #1: After several seasons of being in the NRL, Shaun is still trying to “find his feet”. Someone needs to help him with his kicking game (this is not touch rugby!).
Concern #2: Johnson’s inconsistency is identical to the Warriors’ consistency, which makes one wonder about that fact.
Concern #3: Flashes of brilliance seem more like touch rugby moves on display, instead of what you would see Andrew Johns or Jonathan Thurston do. Even Benji Marshall would take the line on more, and distribute/create for/with others set plays, rather than waiting for a gap to open up before doing so.
Summary: I feel that Shaun Johnson is more of a touch player more than anything. He goes missing a lot in games.
Solution/recommendation: play him from the bench, or at full-back or wing, where he has more space to do his ‘touch’ thing, or where he comes off the bench, he has just have the one-off burst of brilliance etc.
Side note: just because you have bursts of brilliance every now and then, doesn’t make you a great player. Its the small consistent things that make players great. I think people tend to forget that, and they get caught looking at flashy players who don’t know the game well enough yet, like Lolohea at the Warriors. Tonnes of potential, but will he just turn out like Johnson, 6 years after the fact still trying to ‘find his feet’???
Why Shaun Johnson will win the Dally M medal in 2017
The non-try ruling in the test match is better than some rulings I’ve seen in another code – rugby league. On a number of occasions this year, the NZ Warriors were pinged for similar offenses, but it was worse, as the guy being put in the spot light in the lead up to the try had nothing to do with the try being scored or not. The same principle applies in both codes where a player impinges upon another player making an attempt to tackle, or stop another, and whether or not the offending player would have altered the outcome, seems to have nothing to do with the ruling -at least that’s what I’ve seen in the NRL.
Eight talking points: All Blacks vs Wallabies, third Bledisloe Cup Test
If the NRL don’t hold games or training, or anything NRL on Sunday, it will succeed in what it is trying to achieve.
NRL left red-faced after embarrassing finals turnout