Will Stoddard

So I'm not going to read out its entirety by any means because it would take too long.

But there's a couple of passes I do want to read out because it was quite interesting.

Nean Amber talked at length about his defensive philosophy, you know, basically defending and saying he doesn't think it takes too much energy out of the players.

That's been one criticism that like, you know, it's such a kind of aggressive defensive system that maybe the players don't have enough in the tank to attack as well as they used to.

As a result, he didn't agree with that.

He explained that when he said he runs the rugby programme, it's not that he has his fingers all over the attack and all over every element of the game plan.

It's more that he gets together with the coaches, they set up the game plan and then he kind of allocates the training kind of time they put into each kind of segment.

That was how he described his role rather than as someone who we think of as like a Lancaster or a Schmidt who maybe has their finger in every single aspect of the game.

But then it was his future where things got very interesting and

Someone asked him, do you think you'll definitely be here next year?

And Neen Abber said, he, pointing at Rudd, or talking about Rudd, he said, I'm a devil.

So if it's according to him, probably not.

And then it was pointed out to him that it's not up to journalists if he stays or not.

And he said, who fires you?

Do you know who fires you?

The public, the media, they fire you.

Not the CEO, not Shane Nolan.

He doesn't fire me, but you guys fire us.

You fire all coaches because the pressure builds and builds.

And then the fans build the pressure.