NZF really is a shambles isn't it.
You have Jitka given a 6 (6!) year contract. Why? Why'd she deserve that? And no matter how bad her results (Norway excluded) there is no pressure put on her to improve. No possibility of her getting the sack. The women's team has also been described (I admit to not knowing how accurate this is) as a girls trip environment, with them all being happy to hang out and have a nice time with friends rather than seeing it as a place to work hard and do their best to improve and perform.
Now we have similar comments coming out about the men's environment. And Bazeley too was given a 3+ year contract despite having done nothing previously to justify such a contract. He will lead us at the World Cup no matter how badly NZ plays as we only need to get past Island nations to get there. He should have been given 18 months and needed to prove he deserves that, and if his results were poor NZF could say thank you and goodluck and get someone else without having to pay out his contract. But NZF doesn't care about results and there are no incentives to succeed or penalties for failure.
This is not a high performance environment. This is a jobs for the boys and jobs for the girls environment. Something needs to change.
Edit: and after that game Bazeley is "upbeat" and talking about a lot of positives. Lord give me strength
You have Jitka given a 6 (6!) year contract. Why? Why'd she deserve that? And no matter how bad her results (Norway excluded) there is no pressure put on her to improve. No possibility of her getting the sack. The women's team has also been described (I admit to not knowing how accurate this is) as a girls trip environment, with them all being happy to hang out and have a nice time with friends rather than seeing it as a place to work hard and do their best to improve and perform.
Now we have similar comments coming out about the men's environment. And Bazeley too was given a 3+ year contract despite having done nothing previously to justify such a contract. He will lead us at the World Cup no matter how badly NZ plays as we only need to get past Island nations to get there. He should have been given 18 months and needed to prove he deserves that, and if his results were poor NZF could say thank you and goodluck and get someone else without having to pay out his contract. But NZF doesn't care about results and there are no incentives to succeed or penalties for failure.
This is not a high performance environment. This is a jobs for the boys and jobs for the girls environment. Something needs to change.
Edit: and after that game Bazeley is "upbeat" and talking about a lot of positives. Lord give me strength