Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Conditioning for Conditioning and Learning the Learnings https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address LegBreak https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48105#post48105 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48105#post48105 Tussock,

That rings a bell; was that the 56 or 65 tour?

]]> Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:43:13 +1200 tussock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48082#post48082 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48082#post48082 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:10:29 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48075#post48075 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48075#post48075 Hey everyone, sorry, I was stuck in a meeting all day, what are we talking about...rugby?!

Well first of all I went through the report and straight after read the IRB analysis of the World Cup. The documents aren't exactly contradictory but aren't entirely aligned either. Here's my review (plug…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:27:58 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48056#post48056 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48056#post48056

There is the clear view that there was too much emphasis on the Cup by the NZRU, and that future planning should be “lower key in terms of player and public awareness”.

Is that going to be in the pitch to potential sponsors? Sorry, but the next time the NZRFU…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:15:47 +1200 anjum rahman https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48055#post48055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48055#post48055 meh. you guys are worrying about the rugby and i'm sitting here at work listening to the maddening sound of those *#%@ing cars driving round and round the race track. it is truly giving me a headache, and i'm a good 3 blocks away from the whole thing.

i am…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:58:34 +1200 Paul Williams https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48053#post48053 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48053#post48053 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:56:19 +1200 Richard Irvine https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48051#post48051 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48051#post48051 Hell's teeth, I can't believe (actually, I can) the Rugby union has been through this with a red pen for a month! I would love to see the full thing. Bugger leaked Nat party emails, I want a NZRFU stool pigeon.

Competitive advantage? Surely our advantage is that we live…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:42:28 +1200 LegBreak https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48047#post48047 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48047#post48047 According to Steve Tew, the reason those bits were omitted was to maintain the All Blacks’ competitive advantage

Yup, he actually said that with a straight face.

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:55:40 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48046#post48046 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48046#post48046 Good write-up, Grant. According to this morning's Otago Daily Times, the report was completed on March 15.
In the month since, the NZFU has basically gone through it with a black marker pen and censored all the critical, contentious and damning comments, in order to save face. (The ODT does…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:47:18 +1200 Jimmy Southgate https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48045#post48045 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48045#post48045 I like Grant Fox's suggestion too, the report did seem to indicate that the conditioning failed in part because it couldn't be scheduled at the best possible time due to all of our competing tournaments.

I've been posting this everywhere lately, but I am totally over the 'should have gone…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:46:33 +1200 Richard Irvine https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48036#post48036 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48036#post48036 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:12:24 +1200 Alex Gilks https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48035#post48035 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48035#post48035 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:06:00 +1200 LegBreak https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48032#post48032 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48032#post48032 There’s a real danger of focussing on the Cardiff game. Lets face it, all the signs were there of an ill-prepared team; first witnessed in Melbourne where there was a similar lack of leadership when things started going wrong.

The attitude of “if only we’d have got that penalty we’d…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:48:04 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48031#post48031 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48031#post48031 OR

We just don't play Rugby in New Zealand as well as they do elsewhere.

Just an idea.

Just the concept that perhaps just perhaps we are not as skilled at this game as we believe.

Just suggesting that anyone else after losing every world cup (bar the first one…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:41:44 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48030#post48030 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48030#post48030 Your comments on pre-, in-, and post- season are interesting.

Lots of rugby talking heads talk about how players are playing 'too much rugby'. Which to be honest is a pile of tosh. A full season probably consists of 13 – 15 Super games, a dozen All Black games, and…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:37:11 +1200 Geoff Willmott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48026#post48026 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48026#post48026 In defence of the report (not the fact that it was carried out, but its findings) ...

The headline finding (RWC overemphasized) is a good one because it was the most important aspect of what happened last year; we sacrificed too much for only incremental gains in our chances of…

]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:30:57 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48025#post48025 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-conditioning-for-conditioning-and/?p=48025#post48025 Discussion from blog post.

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