Weekly Ramble

I don't have the heart to do this much more. Should look for another blog to write on. Then it won't matter whether I make sense or not. Four years down the line and turning to the ramblings of a deranged blogger! Or maybe if I repeat myself long enough, I'll make sense to someone other than myself.

Someone said the only constant in life is change. However, perhaps they did not realise how much we hate and resist it. Another said doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity. Well then just how sane are we? I don't feel like digging up my old posts today, but I have said this several times before. I castigate the technical team for being selectors, other than trainers, but maybe that is all they can do. The only measure of their success or failure as a team is by their win/loss record. There is qualitative measure of whether they are succeeding of failure. I used to hit at the immediate past chair of the union. That the buck should stop with him, and no one else. Well, this time we all know clearly where it stops. With hired hands helping to implement, he is quickly making short work. And a mockery of everything we hold dear, but I am digressing.

Not only are the technical team selectors, but we also selectors. When the team does not do well, we are busy selecting who should be the next coach, or who is our preferred coach. And our only options, other than plain bias, is that coach's win/loss record at maybe club level! Are we then serious about this thing, or only wanting our person in? New National Sevens coaches were appointed - not selected! On what grounds again? Did anyone sit them down to ask them their philosophy of the game, their strengths, their weaknesses? Did anyone tell them the direction the union wants to take, save for wanting to win? Are the qualitative as well as qualitative objectives? Were the positions competitively filled? And I always thought the head coach is appointed and he selects his team to help him achieve his goals? I keep digressing.

Unless we as a nation or as a union have a philosophy of rugby and can identify what we want to achieve qualitatively and quantitatively, both objectively and subjectively, will we move forward. We only know we want to win, how we have no clue. And until we can all agree on that, we will continue being selectors and not achieve our goals!

Let the technical team work as they know best, as we are not willing to help. We are offering them nothing but expecting the moon from them.