Chris Hewitt
So the movers and shakers at the top end of professional rugby in New Zealand union are every bit as amateur as their counterparts in every other corner of the oval-ball landscape. Official. The Ian Foster saga confirms it.
Listen to Mark Robinson, the chief executive of the NZRFU, reflecting on how a brushfire over Foster’s position as All Blacks head coach during the team’s two-match programme in South Africa suddenly turned into a conflagration.
“It’s difficult, isn’t it? If you don’t say things and want to think of the best interests of the team, and wait till they’re out o...