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Not in the habit of starting new threads but I am desperate to find out more about Mark Anscombe.
Since he was appointed Ulster has been transformed into one of the most sought after coaching roles in European rugby.
With some of the best players in europe, an exciting batch of youngsters combined with a great HEC run puts us up with the european elite, it is a position any coach would covet.
We could probably have had our pick of them now.

What I know about Mark Anscombe is limited.
He has coached Wesley, Mosley, Coventry,North Harbour and the NZ u20s amongst others.
He also coached Auckland when I initally assumed it was the Blues and thought that was all the endorsement required.
Unfortunately it wasnt and I felt a bit deflated if I am honest.

The positives seem to be that he is a vastly experienced coach with a repututation of being an hard edged flanker as a player.
He has had success with the baby blacks, coaching them to the last world cup and specialises in youth development.

Negatives seem to be that he has not been successful from what I see at senior level and coaching the baby blacks to a world cup win is not exactly a great achievement considering its their 4th in a row.
Most worryingly is that I have heard from former players coached by him who werent exactly glowing in their praise of him.

This is where I am but I just want to know if anyone else knows anything different.
Please can we not have any got to keep positive or in humph we trust rhetoric which is all I have really heard to date.
Anything of substance please!

bazzaj wrote:Please can we not have any got to keep positive or in hunph we trust rhetoric which is all I have really heard to date.
Anything of substance please!

With that provision this should be the only reply to you on this thread as from previous reports Humphs didn't know much about him either.

I doubt if there is much else to be known.
Obviously he did a great interview.

Rooster wrote:

bazzaj wrote:Please can we not have any got to keep positive or in hunph we trust rhetoric which is all I have really heard to date.
Anything of substance please!

With that provision this should be the only reply to you on this thread as from previous reports Humphs didn't know much about him either.

There has got to be someone around who knows something surely!

bazzaj wrote:Not in the habit of starting new threads but I am desperate to find out more about Mark Anscombe.
Since he was appointed Ulster has been transformed into one of the most sought after coaching roles in European rugby.
With some of the best players in europe, an exciting batch of youngsters combined with a great HEC run puts us up with the european elite, it is a position any coach would covet.
We could probably have had our pick of them now.

What I know about Mark Anscombe is limited.
He has coached Wesley, Mosley, Coventry,North Harbour and the NZ u20s amongst others.
He also coached Auckland when I initally assumed it was the Blues and thought that was all the endorsement required.
Unfortunately it wasnt and I felt a bit deflated if I am honest.

The positives seem to be that he is a vastly experienced coach with a repututation of being an hard edged flanker as a player.
He has had success with the baby blacks, coaching them to the last world cup and specialises in youth development.

Negatives seem to be that he has not been successful from what I see at senior level and coaching the baby blacks to a world cup win is not exactly a great achievement considering its their 4th in a row.
Most worryingly is that I have heard from former players coached by him who werent exactly glowing in their praise of him.

This is where I am but I just want to know if anyone else knows anything different.
Please can we not have any got to keep positive or in humph we trust rhetoric which is all I have really heard to date.
Anything of substance please!

Well analysed Bazzaj - with what you have here we can now use this as the
official site reference section on Mark as in fairness I don't think anyone
here really knows any more.

bazzaj wrote:

Rooster wrote:

bazzaj wrote:Please can we not have any got to keep positive or in hunph we trust rhetoric which is all I have really heard to date.
Anything of substance please!

With that provision this should be the only reply to you on this thread as from previous reports Humphs didn't know much about him either.

There has got to be someone around who knows something surely!

Would have been on the other thread if there was.

Also, in terms of "anything of substance" - the only things of substance for me is what he's going to do when he joins Ulster, not his past glories (or sackings).

Since his appointment that's about all anyone has managed to get ... and with the new super tight lock down no leaks UR firewall, I'd be slightly surprised if that wasn't at the high end of even Mark Anscombe contribution to his own CV.

DrH probably has hundreds of file pages and photos all
locked away in a big safe.

Don't know if they are anything to do with MA though.

Are you saying Gordon Darcy asked Humph to keep all the stuff he has on Kidney to keep getting picked?

Crazy thread Jazzbeg, "we know nothing so lets confirm we know nothing" appears the thrust of it. Why?????

One thing alone to set your mind at rest, I know a coach with no senior track record before being appointed. Indeed it has to be true that every head coach starts out that way. You get a blank sheet of paper and write your own CV as you go. This is his 1st gig as head coach at a serious rugby power & I feel quite happy that we can now justifiably say that about Ulster.

Now can we concentrate on "that guy's" finest hour, this weekend & in May?

I don't think people should underestimate the level at which Aukland play. ITM cup is serious rugby - it's not S15, but then neither is Currie Cup and look what the Blue Bulls did to us a couple of years ago.

BaggyTrousers wrote:Crazy thread Jazzbeg, "we know nothing so lets confirm we know nothing" appears the thrust of it. Why?????

One thing alone to set your mind at rest, I know a coach with no senior track record before being appointed. Indeed it has to be true that every head coach starts out that way. You get a blank sheet of paper and write your own CV as you go. This is his 1st gig as head coach at a serious rugby power & I feel quite happy that we can now justifiably say that about Ulster.

Now can we concentrate on "that guy's" finest hour, this weekend & in May?

Not really that crazy Baggy.
I do not know much about the man my beloved Ulster has been entrusted with and I would like to know more about him.
If my daughter was being courted by a bloke I knew little about I would like to find out more.
Its no different.
How did he get on at Old Wesley for example?
Its only down the road and there must be people who can remember how he got on with our combined resources on this site?
I am very much concentrating on Saturday but I am able to concentate on two things at once.

bazzaj wrote:

BaggyTrousers wrote:Crazy thread Jazzbeg, "we know nothing so lets confirm we know nothing" appears the thrust of it. Why?????

One thing alone to set your mind at rest, I know a coach with no senior track record before being appointed. Indeed it has to be true that every head coach starts out that way. You get a blank sheet of paper and write your own CV as you go. This is his 1st gig as head coach at a serious rugby power & I feel quite happy that we can now justifiably say that about Ulster.

Now can we concentrate on "that guy's" finest hour, this weekend & in May?

Not really that crazy Baggy.
I do not know much about the man my beloved Ulster has been entrusted with and I would like to know more about him.
If my daughter was being courted by a bloke I knew little about I would like to find out more.
Its no different.
How did he get on at Old Wesley for example?
Its only down the road and there must be people who can remember how he got on with our combined resources on this site?
I am very much concentrating on Saturday but I am able to concentate on two things at once.

Explains everything Jazzbeg, you're a lass

As for interfering in your daughter's love life, it'll end in tears my friend. Don't do it, she'll hate you for it, trust her, if she hasn't been brought up by a pair of idiots she will make good choices, maybe even if you don't like them.

God sounding like a bleedin' expert again.

What coaching experience or success did McGlocks have before we took him on? And yet look where we are now.