Wayne Smith retires

 

"One of the great love affairs of New Zealand sport is coming to an end. Wayne Smith is finally ready to call time on a remarkable 20-year relationship with the All Blacks team he still adores with all his heart.

Yes, "the Professor" is about to lock away his secret formulae and hand his defence clipboard on to a new appointment who will be identified in coming weeks. The 60-year-old rugby treasure will be succeeded, but never replaced. Not after 20 years building the intellectual property, drive and passion that has become an intrinsic part of making the All Blacks one of world sport's most successful and recognised properties. 

Smith on Friday announced he would be finishing up as an assistant coach with Steve Hansen's All Blacks at the end of the Rugby Championship, and spoke exclusively to Stuff about his reasons for walking away now, halfway to a possible unprecedented hat-trick of World Cup titles."

Well done sir. I take my hat off to you and I give ALL the Glory to GOD through JESUS his SON our LORD and SAVIOUR.

Great benefits flow from that kind of continuity.

 Congrats to him on a brilliant career!
and welcome back Hakwa. You will notice that Beeno has been tamed in your absence

A  quiet achiever.

 Well done on an exceptional career, his coaching videos, while dated, are still brilliant and have helped many aspiring coaches and players.

 
So long as we're clear that this hero of yours was in the end a WC failure.

He may have contributed in other ways to your favoured position but WC glory wasn't one of them.

 

 Hey Hakwa !Pretty cool that Smithy got to be in on TWO RWC victories along with a truckload of other trophies eh ?Like the old Meatloaf song put it "TWO outta three aint bad!"