Feverish avert your eyes. Oh and if you want to improve mental skills and enhance a winning mentality, Gilbert Enoka is your man. Been the mental skills guru for many years with the ABs.
Smithy is a rugby man through and through. Regarded as a the best technical rugby coach out of NZ. Ryan Nelsen would be a better shout in my view to help instill a hardened winning approach, with a football background. But likely too busy Stateside.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/131015214/united-states-visit-added-to-world-cup-excitement-but-did-little-to-help-football-ferns
But as far as the bigger picture was concerned, there wasn’t a lot of new information to be gleamed, as the team the Ferns put on park in July is likely to include very few of those who featured.
Smithy is a rugby man through and through. Regarded as a the best technical rugby coach out of NZ. Ryan Nelsen would be a better shout in my view to help instill a hardened winning approach, with a football background. But likely too busy Stateside.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/131015214/united-states-visit-added-to-world-cup-excitement-but-did-little-to-help-football-ferns
But as far as the bigger picture was concerned, there wasn’t a lot of new information to be gleamed, as the team the Ferns put on park in July is likely to include very few of those who featured.
What’s clear now is that a number of fringe players have probably had their last chance to push for a place in the squad of 23 that will be picked for the World Cup in June.
If there was one bleak moment from a week that could have featured plenty more, it was the sight of Ally Green being replaced half hour into her first Ferns start, purely because she was being overwhelmed by the American attackers.
If there was one bleak moment from a week that could have featured plenty more, it was the sight of Ally Green being replaced half hour into her first Ferns start, purely because she was being overwhelmed by the American attackers.
She was being played out of position at right back, but the player who replaced her, Ashleigh Ward, slotted in at left back, and you had to feel Green should have been given the opportunity to play in her normal position first.