Seamus Marten
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So you've done us a real solid there.
Yeah, do you have to organise that as the manager?
No, no, I didn't.
Oh, good.
Yeah, we often go fishing.
I kind of was only going fishing for a shag.
It's an interesting turn of phrase that will be clipped up.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Well, that's just one of the many, I guess, facets of a team manager's role, which I guess is a good place to start.
What does the All Blacks manager job entail?
Because manager itself probably massively undersells the job.
People probably think
their interpretation of a manager filling up drink bottles, setting up the kit, maybe making sure the bus is there.
But you're also sitting at the top table of NZR at that point as well.
Every decision from 2004 till you left, you've got a voice at that senior leadership team.
But as you explained, you're still right on the sideline as well in the game.
You've got the coach in your ear.
I didn't want to give that one up.
That's the cool part of the job, right?