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Mike's Minute: Give the All Blacks time

Author
Mike Hosking,
Publish Date
Mon, 15 Aug 2022, 10:53AM

Mike's Minute: Give the All Blacks time

Author
Mike Hosking,
Publish Date
Mon, 15 Aug 2022, 10:53AM

You can't sack Ian Foster on that performance.

And I am hoping some of those that launched their campaigns to get rid of him, in yet another example of the superficial way we deal with performance in this country, might like to look at themselves.

So many who drive the worst of the vitriol have never actually amounted to anything much themselves. It's one of the great weaknesses of the human condition, ordinary folk thinking they're a bit more than they really are.

It's also been amazing to watch the amount of energy that has gone into Foster based on lack of performance, and yet we live in a country economically and ideologically on its knees right now and the same level of scrutiny is lacking towards the architects of the misery in Wellington.

As some of us have suggested these past few weeks, all that really counts is the World Cup. Win that and these days of upset and misery will be long forgotten.

And, it was never a case of the side not being up to it. It was an execution problem, and even the best suffer from that at times.

What we saw yesterday morning was what was always possible. The fact they delivered it under the pressure they did, was yet more reassurance that the panic of the past couple of weeks has been completely unnecessary.

And not just a win, but a great win, a complete and compelling win.

The best story in sport is always the delivery of victory under the most adverse of conditions, it is the mark of excellence. The ability to soak it all up, channel it, and deliver. And that is what we all saw at the so-called most feared home of rugby.

Might I add here, that for those watching, the Warriors came to the party in their own way as well.

No, the Bulldogs aren't South Africa. But the way the Warriors won was another reminder that the ingredients are there, it’s the delivery that’s always been the issue.

In the arduous times let us try and remember the pile on is almost always done for the wrong reasons, and victory in sport, especially excellent victory, is worth to a small country its weight in gold.

So let's get off their backs, and onwards and upwards.

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