HAPPY TO BE WRONG Wayne Smith and the Black Ferns Challenge
Way ne Smith has never been happier being wrong.
The storied coach, whose achievements include winning two World Cups with the All Blacks, wasn’t keen to coach the Black Ferns at this year’s tournament.
“I didn’t know the players. I’d watched a few games with interest on tour but nothing more than that. I hadn’t analysed anything and I felt really unprepared.”
It was an uncomfrotable feeling for a man used to being the driving force behind the All Blacks rugby smarts, the coach Sir Graham Henry reckons is the best New Zealand has ever produced.
“I felt like I had been caught up in an avalanche,” Smith says of his elevation to the Black Ferns head coaching role after the messy departure of Glenn
