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    John Mitchell gets suspended by Lions after Player unrest! (unable to paste full report Sorry! ....using an iPad thingey!

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    you would have to think that after this - Mitchell's Coaching career is going to be pretty much done. No administrators are going to want to employ a coach that cant work with the playing group.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exile View Post
    you would have to think that after this - Mitchell's Coaching career is going to be pretty much done. No administrators are going to want to employ a coach that cant work with the playing group.
    I'm actually a fan of Mitch, but if you can believe the latest reports from SA, then it makes you wonder. ABs post RWC, Force now Lions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SinBin View Post
    I'm actually a fan of Mitch, but if you can believe the latest reports from SA, then it makes you wonder. ABs post RWC, Force now Lions.
    Me to SinBin I have been behind him all the way but maybe it was miss placed.
    Shame because I do like his game style.

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    I think you will find that he had similar troubles at Sale and was removed by Clive Woodward from the England assistant job too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wholetruth View Post
    I think you will find that he had similar troubles at Sale and was removed by Clive Woodward from the England assistant job too.
    But he did do a great job with both Sale and England.
    Maybe he's not PC enough for the princesses that we seem to be breading these days!
    Coaches didn't expect to be loved and were not expected to be mother hen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hertryk View Post
    John Mitchell gets suspended by Lyon after Player unrest! (unable to paste full report Sorry! ....using an iPad thingey!
    What's he doing in France?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SNOB View Post
    But he did do a great job with both Sale and England.
    Maybe he's not PC enough for the princesses that we seem to be breading these days!
    Coaches didn't expect to be loved and were not expected to be mother hen.
    I think he has problems containing his frustration when grown men (mostly), can't perform fairly simple tasks, and then have no problem apportioning the blame elsewhere. He seemed to be very happy in The Republic from his last comments.

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    The end of the Mitchell style of coaching came when change rooms started smelling more of hair product than Dencorub.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burgs View Post
    The end of the Mitchell style of coaching came when change rooms started smelling more of hair product than Dencorub.
    I would have said it came to an end when Alan Jones' Wallabies bombed out of the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

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    Gotta admit I maybe have the same trouble "getting" the Gen Y's at my workplace. Perhaps Dingo is more adaptable and JO'N has become more flexible. Easier to be flexible with a lack of backbone.
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    All I can say is we played a more exhilarating fast passionate attacking style that enthralled the crowd, and managed to finish above ALL of the other Aus teams, and won away in both SA and NZ under Mitchell.

    I'm not a player, never met the man, didn't have to deal with him on any basis let alone daily, but I liked him and was appalled at the treatment he got.

    I know it has ended the same way at ABs Force and Lions so he's the common denominator, I just can't understand it.
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    There will be some intetesting reading when some of the main characters write their books.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shasta View Post
    There will be some intetesting reading when some of the main characters write their books.
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    Not if they are all like pocock's. He was very diplomatic

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    Quote Originally Posted by jono View Post
    Not if they are all like pocock's. He was very diplomatic
    That is the nature of the man!

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