Marc Hinton: You have got it all wrong

RugbyHeaven co-editor seems determined to go on and on with his personal war against Graham Henry. This is his new offensive.

I can imagine a large number of reasons for not behaving the way this journalist is behaving. Some of which have to do with the fact he's a journalist and even journalists should have a code of ethics. Some others have to do with more simple facts: readers are not as much interested as Marc Hinton is in his personal war against Henry.

1. First thing: If I am in a 'crusade' against a man, and I am a voice of the media, how many times will I be allowed to talk against him without him being able to answer? Is it fair for the target of my hate? Of course, Graham Henry's popular enough to have a microphone whenever he wants but... Can he afford asking for a microphone to just answer a journalist every time the journalist writes about him?
   Marc Hinton writes with the positive knowledge that he will seldom be replied. (In fact, he would love to have such an attention from an All Blacks coach)
2. Secondly: This journalist uses ambiguity to his benefit. When he suggests that all he has done is question the right of Henry to coach in benefit of another candidate he's being ambiguous to the limit of the truth. RugbyHeaven should admit that they have had their own crusade against Henry. They do think that Henry ought not to be the All Blacks coach (and that is something I respect). But they have used their voice to influence on people. They have not simply supported Deans. They have once and again attacked Henry, his failure, his mood, his words... they have even omitted the quotations of the players giving support to him...
   Marc Hinton is not telling the truth. At leat, not the whole story.
3. Thirdly: In less than a week time to launch the Super 14, RugbyHeaven's co-editor should have a full pool of things to put his sight on. But all of a sudden, Henry comes back and says the media has been hard at him and all that matters to this journalist is engaging again in a battle against the All Blacks coach.
   Marc Hinton should not use his column (should not even give the impression that he is using his column) at RugbyHeaven for personal matters.
4. Fourth: He simply cannot pretend it is not personal. He cannot pretend all that RugbyHeaven has done is showing their preferences for Deans. He cannot pretend they have not even tried to influence anything. They have. People go and read their articles saying how much they loathe Henry's work. And next day there's a poll in RugbyHeaven about who should be the next All Blacks coach. Stop treating readers as sheeps.
   RugbyHeaven has surpassed the concept of information and gone to the land of suggestion. And we who have read (and still remember what we have read) RugbyHeaven for the past four months, are aware.

To finish this post, a warning to Hinton: Journalism is what journalists do. Would you appreciate the work you are doing if you were the target and another person, the writer? Your work should be of the highest quality always, no matter how good is the All Blacks coach's job. And viceversa.

New Zealand's national sport is rugby, not hate.

In October the All Blacks had their worst ever performance in a RWC. The outcome of the All Blacks coaching job was determined on December and for these two long months no man had gathered more hate in New Zealand than Graham Henry. Why? Failure at the RWC is not a crime, is it?

Graham Henry has been out for longer than a month. Once the Super 14 season is starting again he is back and has for the first time expressed his opinion in this interview.

Criticised for the so-called journalists at RugbyHeaven for (among other things) not giving public account of what went wrong (as if he ought to), two of them seemed to be waiting for him to open his mouth to resume their holy war against him.

The first one, the guy you can see below is called Doug Golightly.

He is the author of the welcome-back article for the All Blacks coach. It is quite normal, RugbyHeaven is quite a good rugby site except when the All Blacks are the subject.

The other one is called Marc Hinton and looks like this

I can't understand his behaviour anyway. He's RugbyHeaven's co editor and that ought to mean some kind of responsibility, but when he writes this article to kick the Super 14 season off one can't avoid wondering what's going on?

Is RugbyHeaven so enamoured of Henry that they can't live a second without writing about him? Even when the All Backs are not playing? Is hate New Zealand's national sport or is it rugby?

To RugbyHeaven: Ladies and Gentlemen, Graham Henry is the All Blacks coach, like it or not. We all have our own ideas on what would we do if we were on command, but we are not, fortunately. Fortunately the person on command knows a full lot of rugby. Live with it.