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Richie McCaw biography

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John Thornett (49)
FrankLind said:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10839280
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Guess we were rooted before the anyone even got to the Stadium

We heard during the week that the Aussie camp was pretty confident. ... . However accurate the rumour might have been, it was great to hear that they were confident. I don't go along with most people who say the Wallabies are more dangerous when they're confident. I reckon they're more vulnerable.
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On the way to the ground on the bus, I looked out on the Great North Road part of the Fan Trail and saw a sign on one of the car yards.

I HOPE YOU'RE READY QUADE. RICHIE IS.
I wondered whether Cooper had seen it when the Aussie bus went by.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Robbie doesn't appear to want to be challenged by his assistants and won't allow the kind of full-on debate that Ted [Henry] encourages with Smith and Hansen,” McCaw wrote in a frank chapter dedicated to the Henry v Deans issue. “Robbie's approach is to say, 'This is what we're doing,' then convince people that's the way it's got to be. He's very good at that.
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“But when you look at the record of Robbie's assistant coaches, there's quite a lot of turnover and fallout. Robbie's intransigence and reluctance to delegate might have been a factor…if you look at the names of some of Robbie's assistants. Colin Cooper, Vern Cotter, Don Hayes, Todd Blackadder. It's tempting to draw the conclusion that if Robbie gets a strong assistant coach, the assistant won't last, and if he gets one that lasts, he's not that strong.”
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Ouch. Sounds like it can get a little toxic.
 
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Tony Shaw (54)
"The Open Side" is hardly an original title. Poey released his AGES ago! Poor Richie, always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

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Phil Hardcastle (33)
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
On amazon its The Real McCaw
http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-McCa...qid=1349748338&Super Rugby=8-3&keywords=mccaw

Although it says published on 1.4.2012
 
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Darby Loudon (17)
That's a pretty damming assessment of Deans. Its strange as they seemed quite chummy at the crusaders. In the excerpts from the article I read in the SMH McCaw essentially states the he told Steve Tew that Henry would be a better coach than Deans.
 
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
darkhorse said:
That's a pretty damming assessment of Deans. Its strange they seemed quite chummy at the crusaders. In the excerpts from the article I read in the SMH McCaw essentially states the he told Steve Tew that Henry would be a better coach than Deans.
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Perhaps he should be our next CEO - he seems to have got that call right
 
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