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Wednesday <strong>August</strong> 9 <strong>2023</strong> <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
NEWS 13<br />
Robertson opens up<br />
VICTORY: Scott Robertson and Richie Mo’unga celebrate<br />
after the Crusaders beat the Chiefs to win the Super Rugby<br />
Pacific title in Hamilton.<br />
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– and says goodbye<br />
A DEPARTING Scott Robertson<br />
has opened up on his career<br />
as Crusaders coach in his final<br />
interview before taking on the<br />
All Blacks role in November.<br />
Robertson won seven Super<br />
Rugby titles as coach and four as<br />
a player. He takes over from Ian<br />
Foster as All Blacks coach after<br />
the Rugby World Cup. In a video<br />
posted by the Crusaders, an<br />
emotional Robertson looks back<br />
on his time with the franchise<br />
and how much it has meant to<br />
him.<br />
“To give back to a jersey that<br />
has given me so much . . . it’s<br />
special that I can walk away and<br />
go ‘thanks for everything, I’m<br />
a better man for it. And thank<br />
you’,” he said in the video.<br />
Robertson also got emotional<br />
while reflecting on his final game<br />
in Christchurch – the 52-15 semifinal<br />
thrashing of the Blues. He<br />
admitted being nervous about<br />
the potential of ending his stint<br />
with a semi-final defeat and went<br />
onto the ground and revved up<br />
the home crowd before the game.<br />
“Probably that moment was<br />
my last time at Orangetheory, at<br />
the home ground . . . I just felt we<br />
needed it. I just thought it was<br />
going to be a special moment. A<br />
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chance to bring us all together.<br />
It was a chance to get our people<br />
on our feet but also a thank<br />
you from me. To say ‘let’s enjoy<br />
this – this is our moment. Stay<br />
here now, we’re on’. And the<br />
performance probably reflected<br />
that,” he says.<br />
“I was pretty nervous too. I<br />
thought we needed the crowd<br />
that night. It was the end of a<br />
career, if you end on a semifinal<br />
at home, at a place you’ve never<br />
lost in a final ... I thought we’re<br />
all in. It was a pretty special<br />
moment.”<br />
Last week Robertson penned a<br />
goodbye letter to Crusaders fans.<br />
He also thanked the players<br />
•Watch<br />
Scott<br />
Robertson’s<br />
departing<br />
video<br />
on the<br />
Crusaders<br />
website<br />
and their families for<br />
their support and respect –<br />
and for keeping him<br />
accountable.<br />
Robertson says so much of who<br />
he and his family are – and who<br />
he aspires to be – is linked to red<br />
and black.<br />
“This week was my last at<br />
Rugby Park and boy does it feel<br />
strange to say that. My time as<br />
a Crusaders head coach is over<br />
and my focus has shifted to my<br />
ever-supportive family and my<br />
own development ahead of the<br />
next big challenge,”Robertson<br />
said in the message shared by the<br />
Crusaders.<br />
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