Tangents outscoring actual Declared-based dissection by quite a long way in this thread...
Haven't read the book, but can't wait to.
I find it interesting (not necessarily on here, more social media and the media itself) that people get bored ****less when someone writes a nothingness autobiog/biog (read messers Fleming, Vettori etc, and particularly Dan Carter - **** me that is a cure for insomnia that beats even death) but Brendon actually offers something that gives us insight and is of real interest value, and it's tantamount to ****ting on his mates. And apparently it's bad timing because Ross is on tour. There's no window for breaks these days let alone feelings not to be hurt though books.
On Ross, it's not totally his fault because he should never have been appointed but was because of John Wright's aversion to anything attached to risk and the Greatbatch factor etc. Wright/Taylor was a horrendous combination with a mixture of poor man management/communication skills. Ask any bowler under Ross (save for probably Southee) and they'll tell you how it felt to look up at 1st slip after a boundary was hit, and the body language/vitriol being served back. Brendon wasn't perfect but there are a couple of guys who would never have had international careers of any decent height had their captain been Ross Taylor.
And of course there's bias to a point in this book, how can anyone write something completely free from it? Brendon sees the world differently to a lot of us and I imagine has told it as such. I'm glad we're getting to see behind the curtain a bit more, because it's bloody rare now from sportspeople. If they want us to read their book, they should give us a reason to do so - not just recaps of games and moments we've already heard about.
