andyhullwyke wrote:been to a question and answer session tonight with Tony Smith and it was interesting to liston to his coaching tecniques. he said that he gives each player individual targets for specific games, and that he is happy if the players achieve there targets even if the team loses. he emphasised that winning isnt everything, but continually improving is far more important. he said that at leeds, most players met there targets for the majority of the time and that then led to sucess. i was suprised because i thought he would be a typical win at all costs Aussie, but he was far from that.
he was asked if he would ever try and get his team to bend the rules if he thought they could get away with it, and he said an emphatic NO
came over as a very thorough coach who leavs nothing to chance.
it will be interesting to see how warrington get on as he said there was a massive amount of work to be done there.
he reffered to australia as 'them', and english as 'us' and was passionate about improving the british game from grass roots up.
he is doing a lot of work behind the scenes to improve youth rugby in this country which is commendable.
i know he is Aussie born, but he seems to genuinly want us to compete with and beat the aussies so hats off to him
He certainly did in the world cup, I was there! Should have got the sack for his shambolic performance.
