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| So multiple other people all clock the same thing and they are all wrong.
Do you insist on arguing on everything? Can you not understand when someone else's point is actually valid?
And she didn't push the point throughout. It was Arnold that interviewed him after the France game and she never broached the subject. McNamara was polite and smiled after that fixture, he handled it well because he didn't get a question that irked him.
She offered him a chance after the semi to redeem himself and he messed it up big time. He was measured and pleasant in his response to her first few questions but the moment she offered him a chance to show compassion he spat it in her face.
As for the other two, big deal, we have a couple of Journos that have agendas. Have you seen how many football have?? That sport is plagued with idiots masquerading as hacks. I would suggest you go onto football365.com and read the mediawatch page (updated daily). It is hilarious but also shows how sad some journos actually are. It isn't only our problem.
You know what to do if you don't like what they write? Don't read them.
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| Whether McNamara goes, the whole management set up needs shaking/freshening up - and we need to set, and stick to, higher standards. It speaks volumes that Nigel Wood is this morning quoted as saying, "To get to within 20 seconds of reaching the final is an achievement in itself".
No, it isn't Nigel. And this, to a great extent, is what is wrong. If the objective is to become a consistent force in international rugby league, and match it with the best, you simply cannot make statements like that.
Set tough targets, scrutinise every aspect of the plan to get us there, but most importantly, be brave enough - and honest enough - not to accept second best as achievement. Nigel Wood; you should step aside sir.
McNamara should only go if it's judged he has not achieved the stated goal(s) and we have somebody else to step in. Simple as that. One thing I do believe - we have to have a full time national coach. And that person needs to drive the highest standards. I actually think Steve Mc wouldn't agree with Wood.
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| I don't think too many people would agree with Nigel Wood. How he has managed to have a job of such stature with such weak strategic skills is beyond me.
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| Quote: salford1970 "So multiple other people all clock the same thing and they are all wrong.
Do you insist on arguing on everything? Can you not understand when someone else's point is actually valid?
And she didn't push the point throughout. It was Arnold that interviewed him after the France game and she never broached the subject. McNamara was polite and smiled after that fixture, he handled it well because he didn't get a question that irked him.
She offered him a chance after the semi to redeem himself and he messed it up big time. He was measured and pleasant in his response to her first few questions but the moment she offered him a chance to show compassion he spat it in her face.
As for the other two, big deal, we have a couple of Journos that have agendas. Have you seen how many football have?? That sport is plagued with idiots masquerading as hacks. I would suggest you go onto football365.com and read the mediawatch page (updated daily). It is hilarious but also shows how sad some journos actually are. It isn't only our problem.
You know what to do if you don't like what they write? Don't read them.'"
Tanya Arnold and the old boys club of RL journalists had complained about McNamara being off with Arnold weeks ago. Unsurprisingly for pushing the same point she was pushing when you claim McNamara ‘spat it back in her face’.
If you don’t like what McNamara says, don’t read it. You don’t have to like him as a person, he doesn’t need to be a media presence.
I couldn’t care less if McNamara was the biggest arschehole this side of David Cameron. I don’t care if he comes across like a mix of John McCrirrick and the Australian Cricket team. McNamara’s job isn’t to glad hand, it isn’t to be a media bod. He is there to prepare England as best he can. The fact he has a poor relationship with some poor journalists and comes across poorly to some amateur PR men on a message board is irrelevant.
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "Tanya Arnold and the old boys club of RL journalists had complained about McNamara being off with Arnold weeks ago. Unsurprisingly for pushing the same point she was pushing when you claim McNamara ‘spat it back in her face’.
If you don’t like what McNamara says, don’t read it. You don’t have to like him as a person, he doesn’t need to be a media presence.
I couldn’t care less if McNamara was the biggest great dude this side of David Cameron. I don’t care if he comes across like a mix of John McCrirrick and the Australian Cricket team. McNamara’s job isn’t to glad hand, it isn’t to be a media bod. He is there to prepare England as best he can. The fact he has a poor relationship with some poor journalists and comes across poorly to some amateur PR men on a message board is irrelevant.'"
Not just old boy journo network it is the vast majority of people on this site as well. Read the historical threads for the Eng v Aus game. We were all appalled by his manners.
Wow, didn't you read what I said? She offered him the chance to come good and he missed it.
I rather do care what our national coach comes across as. If he is a poor communicator to the press he can also be considered to have the same skills away from the camera. How does an assistant coach tell him he is wrong, for example, if they choose the wrong player? This actually might actually be applicable to Rangi Chase. Did none of his assistants say, let's drop him for the Ireland/Fiji game and try Widdop? Did McNamara look at them like he had stood ina a turd?
Showing compassion is just as good, at the right time, to showing passion.
BTW, you are acting like a tool, thought I would just say.
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| Quote: Steve May "Can't fault this.
For all that I've enjoyed watching the likes of Tonga and France, there are three credible and competitive nations that can win a tournament like this one. England, NZ and Australia. Just three. And the harsh fact is that we lost against both our peer nations and have finished third.
On top of that, contrary to the popular myth that England have been better organised and prepared, it's been a shambolic campaign. Losing one squad player to poor discipline is bad, but losing two? Getting beaten by Italy, a team that should have had 70 put on them with ease, and then getting shirty in a press conference? Spending several years bigging up your controversial half back choice then abandoning it just before the biggest game since 2008? Voluntarily playing a tight, brutal game against the World Champions with only 16 players, and even then only using one of those for a short time?
The World Cup overall has been a brilliantly pulled off by the RFL. It has been a superb showcase for the sport. But England have not performed. We shouldn't mix up the elation from a fantastic tournament with the actual results of the national team. England have been poor in this competition.
The result against NZ was the worst possible one for England. It allows us to believe that the tournament has been okay for England, that we're there or thereabouts, that the different bounce of a ball and we'd be talking about a different situation. It allows the complacency to deepen.
The fact is, in a three way competition, we've just come third. Again. We haven't won an international tournament involving Australia for 41 years. I remember that we used to be competitive against NZ, but they have moved up a notch in the last ten years and we haven't.
I can recall bouts of GB/England soul searching every autumn for my entire life. Every time it was "we're closing the gap, we're nearly there". And we weren't.
Something fundamental has to change in British RL, something deeper than a reshuffle of the SL pack or the appointment of a different national coach. And yesterday's result, which don't forget was a failure, has only put back the day of reckoning yet again. It will allow the cowards who run the game to hide behind their fiction that everything is alright and we're nearly there. The same fiction that has served us so badly for the three decades since 1982.'"
Other than DG being your mate and both of you talking your standard "I am an expert crud" then yup, can't fault it.
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| Quote: salford1970 "Not just old boy journo network it is the vast majority of people on this site as well. Read the historical threads for the Eng v Aus game. We were all appalled by his manners.'" and.....
Quote: salford1970 "Wow, didn't you read what I said? She offered him the chance to come good and he missed it. '" So not only do you now have a half-memory of what McNamara actually said, but you have made up what Kearney would have said in the same situation and have now decided you can decide the intent behind the question.
ANybody would think you were making up things to fit your argument.
Quote: salford1970 "I rather do care what our national coach comes across as. If he is a poor communicator to the press he can also be considered to have the same skills away from the camera. How does an assistant coach tell him he is wrong, for example, if they choose the wrong player? This actually might actually be applicable to Rangi Chase. Did none of his assistants say, let's drop him for the Ireland/Fiji game and try Widdop? Did McNamara look at them like he had stood ina a turd?
Showing compassion is just as good, at the right time, to showing passion.'"
SO now you have jumped from not only criticising McNamara for something you half-remembered, a contrast to a Kearney quote you made up that never happened, The intent of the question you have no way of knowing, but now this apparently affected the way he interacted with the likes of Paul Deacon and the coaches he chose.
Steve McNamara or whoever is England coach needs to concentrate on preparing England and the problems they face, not fans on message boards and the problems they make up.
Quote: salford1970 "BTW, you are acting like a tool, thought I would just say.'" nobody cares.
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "
ANybody would think you were making up things to fit your argument.
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Oh cruel irony
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| Quote: salford1970 "Oh cruel irony'"
What do you think I have made up? I can provide evidence for anything I have asserted as fact.
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| Quote: SmokeyTA "The coaches job isn’t just picking the side any more though.
It is the weekly meetings with performance analysts, it is not only the organising the get togethers but deciding who to invite and what you are going to do there. It is deciding the game plan and working with the players to implement it.
This is something which happens every day, not every 9 months.
There isn’t one major sport which has a part-time national coach for a reason.'"
I understand your point, but I disagree. You're describing a club coach role, in which the coach has to have an input every single week. The place where your analogy with other major sports breask down is that RL has a much smaller and less significant set of international demands than other major sports. In terms of number of games played, and resources abailable, we don't even come close to Soccer, RU or Cricket. Indeed, the latter two veery clearly have the international game in the driving seat, and the club game second. RL is very much the opposite.
We need to be honest with ourselves aout how much time a national coach would actually have to spend (or be allowed to spend) with his national players. The answer is not much.
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| Quote: BrisbaneRhino "Quite seriously, who gives a rats what he did at Bradford? It has absolutely zero relevance to his performance as England coach.
The results against Australia and NZ were 20-28 and 18-20. England could and perhaps should have won both. The end was the same, but I assume you have seen GB/England absolutely smashed by both those teams? Quite recently in fact. I've seen us get hammered in Brisbane - absolutely humiliated. With players like Peacock, Morley, Harris, Long et al in the side. This England team is light years better then the last one to come down under.
But any improvement is somehow all down to the players and nothing to do with the coach. Really? He had 'four years' to prepare? Again, really? With his full squad available on a regular basis? Even half his squad? Even half his squad being able to play regular competitive matches? Or was it more like a few catch-up sessions with players when he could get them?
As for Chase, until literally a few weeks before the WC, there seemed very little chance that Widdopp would have been fit. So as a good coach did, he would have planned with Chase and Sinfield. If you take Widdopp out of the equation, all the other names bandied about for 7 are frankly laughably poor.
You can argue - understandably - that he could have dropped Chase a week earlier (I would have agreed with that), but to suggest he should have started with Widdopp against Australia for instance is barmy.
Which brings us to the other load of tosh. Brough is responsible for not even being considered for England. McNamara didn't force him out. He was told he wasn't an automatic selection. How bizarre for a coach to do that with a player who hasn't achieved anything much at all in a ten-year career.
It was Brough who took his bat home and decided he was Scottish rather than try to force his way into the squad and then the team by delivering performances that would demand his selection. So if you want to bag anyone or Brough's absence, bag Brough, pseudo-scot-dummy-spitter extraordinaire.
I'm 100% certain McNamara has made mistakes. But blaming him for the results without looking at the quality of the performances is not fair, suggesting that a narrow-heartbreaking defeat is the same as an embarrasing hiding is ridiculous, and suggesting that Brough wasn't solely responsible for his non-selection is laughable.'"
Are you kidding? On that basis then, anyone can be given the role as their past experiences/results mean nothing.
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| It is time to look ahead with a new coach and a new England team captain.
Last Saturday's game was England's best performance for decades. A real one off but we, again, lost.
McNamara has to take responsibility for a very large part of that. He has had four years yet a times in this World Cup England were poor. The Italy game was a very poor result. His squad selection was poor, team selection poor, reults poor, performances in the WC and Exiles game were poor. We have to look for someone better to get better performances and results.
Now the WC is over there are no more Test Matches until next Autumn. We don't need a full time England coach.
Make the job part time and then approach the trophy winning club coaches about taking the England job part time.
Also asking Wayne Bennett to take up a part time consultancy role would help the new man, just as he did with Kearney in the 2008 World Cup.
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| Quote: salford1970 "
She offered him a chance after the semi to redeem himself and he messed it up big time. He was measured and pleasant in his response to her first few questions but the moment she offered him a chance to show compassion he spat it in her face.
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I think you'll find it was Damien Johnson that was interviewing McNamara after the semi-final. The BBC haven't let Tanya Arnold near him since the Ireland game.
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| All mcNamara said was,'its not been a difficult at all ,its been a great campaign & we've done things the right way.
HTF some of you can find reasons to throw hissy fits after hearing that statement i'll never know.
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That's Kyle Eastmond screwed then !
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