Jun 01, 2025 01:23 PM IST
UK-RUGBY-UNION-SUPER:Rugby-McKellar seeing progress at Waratahs regardless of Tremendous Rugby exit
-New South Wales Waratahs head coach Dan McKellar is assured his crew is shifting in the precise route regardless of lacking out on the Tremendous Rugby Pacific playoffs following their 46-6 loss to the Auckland Blues at Eden Park on Saturday.
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McKellar’s facet wanted to win in opposition to the defending champions to sneak into the highest six locations within the standings and earn a berth in subsequent week’s championship rounds, however the Blues prevailed with wing Rieko Ioane scoring a hat trick of tries.
The outcome leaves the Waratahs in eighth place within the 11-team competitors and 7 factors adrift of the playoff spots because the squad missed out on the post-season motion for the second 12 months in a row.
“There’s always pressure and there’s been progress,” stated McKellar, who took over from Darren Coleman forward of the present marketing campaign. “We’ve won six games this year, but we wanted to win more. The progress is in the daily detail.
“We perceive we characterize a really large organisation, and a really proud one, and we need to get us again to the highest group throughout the competitors.
“But it’s going to take time and changing daily habits and how things have been done for a long time and we’re getting there.”
The street again to the Tremendous Rugby summit stays an extended one for a Waratahs facet that completed with little greater than half the full factors of table-toppers the Waikato Chiefs and having conceded 134 extra factors than they scored.
McKellar, nevertheless, plans to provide his gamers per week to get better from the season earlier than beginning preparations for his crew’s subsequent fixture, in opposition to the touring British and Irish Lions at Sydney Soccer Stadium on July 5.
“That’s obviously a massive game and something for us to look forward to and get excited about, the boys will be dead keen for that,” he stated.
“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity as a rugby player and as a coach. We’re really grateful to be involved in such an event and we’ll get up for that.”
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