Writing in The New Zealand Herald, Chris Rattue vents about the bizarre events to transpire between Western Force coach John Mitchell and his employers.
"John Mitchell will be walking on egg shells at the Western Force, but the crunching sound you might hear will be coming from the grinding of Mitchell's teeth.
"Having decided that the former All Black coach was acting like a bad-mannered bull in a china shop, the Force decided to keep him on board in Perth but with the proviso that he mend his moody ways and stop knocking the tea cups over.
"Tricky business that, and I'll wager the crockery won't still be all in one piece by the end of the season. Mitchell has yet to be extensively quoted on this outcome, although he hardly sounds delighted.
"Coaches are like the rest of us. They are what they are, warts and all. To so publicly chip away at the bits of Mitchell that the Force don't like must seem like a stab through the heart to the coach. What other sport would dare manufacture such a bizarre and heavily regulated bob-each-way solution?"
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