| Mark Richardson | OTHER WRITERS |
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| October 29, 2009 |
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Could New Zealand Cricket really have expected anything different than the situation they have now? Andy Moles was for all intents and purposes the last man standing when it came to replacing the previous coach, John Bracewell. If you're last man standing in a gunfight or a poker tournament it would suggest you have some skill or have been lucky. If you are the last man standing in the race for the New Zealand coaching job because the rest have lost interest then what does that suggest? Certainly not that you're the best man for the job.
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It would appear that it took about a year of little improvement, or more so, backward movement, before NZC realised Moles was not the man for the job. The board has only half-heartedly moved to crush rumours that there has been an approach made by senior players to remove Moles from the position, and thus I tend to believe it to be the case.
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If the reason is a vote of no-confidence and not a personality clash then I applaud the players. In the 1990s a personality clash between Adam Parore, Chris Cairns and the then coach Glenn Turner saw Turner removed from the position. Coaches in this country do not survive the players. John Bracewell, who was a good coach, alienated some senior players and went. Simply, the players in New Zealand hold the cards because New Zealand does not have depth; thus in an us-or-him scenario the players win because they are not dispensable.
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