Firstly I will admit to being rather passionate/confrontational etc on the sideline.
However in my role as HBU Academy manager and National Development Officer for NZF at the time, I knew there was a line that i shouldn't and didn't cross and that was foul/abusive language.
What you see on the touchline in the Premier League is all about the pressure that comes with being involved at this level and with so much at stake tempers fray. (look at the passion displayed in the game between Man City and Wigan last night !)
Brett has done a great job with HBU.
Every season gets harder, finances at a provincial club make it a tough assignment, natural attrition of the squad is an issue, so recruitment and development become a vital part of the job.
The key is that all the stakeholders and coaches in the region come together to support the pathways for the"players" and do not feed their own ego's.
I was hugely disappointed when the HBU Academy became a political pawn between Franchise and Federation. The only agenda we had as coaches was to give the players in the bay a positive start to playing football and if you look at the players that came through that system at that time it certainly paid dividends.
The failure of the federation to continue engage NCR as the Flagship and all the other clubs in Hawke's Bay was also a fundamental error.
One final point, the other coach you mention, Declan Edge, went his own way with his own inimitable style and boy has he been successful at producing football players, no one gets close.