This week we will mostly be concerning ourselves with Ian Foster’s future, the Premiership’s future and Scottish rugby’s future… In a world currently full of imbalances and instability, there are bound to be those who fall off, or are shoved off, their chosen path.
As Loose Pass has mentioned several times, the ongoing lawsuit regarding concussions has the potential to damage the finances and image of the game beyond repair.
But even within the game, the imbalances have disrupted things. New Zealand, isolated from the world for the best part of a couple of years at large by a mixture of their union’s strategic choices and the pandemic, slipped from first to fifth in the world in a few weeks after an unprecedented run of defeats.
Surely the coach had to go? I mean, you have Scott Robertson, universally acclaimed, recently-decorated and really good at creating money-spinning instagram reels for Silverlake with those breakdances, waiting in the wings.