Monday, September 10, 2007

Happy Coaches league

This is purely for fun... but it's my ranking of the happiness of coaches in contests. It's not necessarily the same as who will win the various contests, you can be happy for various reasons.

  1. Henry - of course.
  2. Connelly - Losing Gerrard for Shepherd, not as bad as some loses could have been (Larkham say).
  3. White - losing de Villiers seems bigger than losing Gerrard to me. A regular starting centre v a replacement winger?
  4. Loffreda - only this low because the other Southern Hemisphere nations all did so well.
  5. Berbizier - losing to New Zealand, not a disaster. Played with spirit, will challenge the Scots.
  6. Jenkins - his team came from behind, which they shouldn't have had to, but played well in patches.
After that, does it matter that much? The bottom might be interesting:
19th place - Laporte. Shocking performance with freezing, but gives him something to build from, and removes expectation from the side... always good for France!
20th place - Brian Ashton. What positives can he try to manufacture from the pile of manure that was England's performance. Even Laporte is happier.

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