On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave and Jason Pine for Thursday 22 August 2024, NZ Herald rugby writer Gregor Paul talks about the shock departure of Leon MacDonald from his All Blacks coaching role - what's gone wrong?
D'Arcy delivers an opinion piece on Shaun Johnson's last game at Mt Smart Stadium.
Plus, Piney and D'Arcy join the panel to discuss the All Blacks coaching drama in depth.
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As always, let's start with some of the biggest sports
stories floating around today. The big one, of course, shock
and the All Blacks camp, Leon McDonald leaving his role
as assistant coach. New Zealand Rugby's general manager of the
professional game, Chris Lendram says it's come after some honest conversations.
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Where they've got toos that they haven't really clicked as
coaches together. They have some slightly different views around approach
and methodology and just the way the game's played. Leon's
made the decision to exit the All Blacks.
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As a result, Team New Zealand and America's Cup boss
Grant Dalton reckons Lunar Rossa are the team to beat
heading into the final preliminary regatta of the latest edition
in Barcelona.
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They're putting away anybody that come against pretty easily. They
spend with the English after we'd sailed against them today
quite easily. It'll be interesting when we start them tomorrow
because we're not really set up for high winds at
the moment.
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And Ron Coot has been named Rugby League's fourteenth Immortal,
rewarding him for a career that dominated the nineteen sixties
and seventies.
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Taken for words at the moment, Jesus, I never thought
I'd be crying when I was eighty.
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