MikeB4:

 

I hear things like “this is improving,” “that player is doing better”. “The team is gaining this and that and improving here and there. However the performance over 80 minutes and results do not reflect this.
The All Blacks are supposed to be the best that Aotearoa has to offer in every position including coaching and support. The All Blacks are not supposed to be the training division they should already know what is required have the skills and use those skill at every outing. The place for player development is in the championship and Super Rugby.

This of course is my impressions. I don’t employ senior account directors and expect to train them in the basics, they are paid to already know and then employ those paid for skills consistently.

 

Hmm. May as well not have a head coach of the AB's. We could just pick anyone who is considered test quality at random and since they are expected to be the best and at their best at all times, and not require any further development, then we should have a fantastic winning record. 

Based on that, MacDonald and Robertson are ultimately responsible for Auckland and Canterbury AB's failure to fire consistently. 

Foster was pretty critical of the AB's failure to kick for more territory, which seems to indicate it was what they were told to do and they either didn't do it, or do it effectively. 

I do find it pretty amusing though, that often you see people complaining that Foster keeps switching the team around too much not allowing us to form our best team, but when he picks the same team for 3 weeks, he is given a hard time for picking a losing team a second week in a row. Incidentally, the majority who were involved in a pretty impressive win in South Africa a few weeks ago. 

It just goes to show, no matter what he does, people will find fault with it, and it's pretty much all his fault, very little to do with anything else like players not doing their jobs etc.