Mark Hammett
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Nov 3, 2026
Clark LaidlawGUEST
[lips smack] And they, they gave me the opportunity to, to get involved with the top team, to coach their sevens team, do the academy.
Clark LaidlawGUEST
Um, Alami Ramia and Mark Hammett then offered me a job, um, off the back of that, and I'd done two years with Gordon Tietjens in amongst that, where we took the academy team to Australia, um, we beat Samoa, Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand in one weekend with an academy team.
Clark LaidlawGUEST
And then Tietjens offered me a job that weekend to-
Andy BurkeHOST
[laughs]
Clark LaidlawGUEST
Yeah.
Clark LaidlawGUEST
You know, and I've seen great, you know, I worked with Mark Hammett where everything was important, then I worked with Chris Boyd where only a few things were important.
Clark LaidlawGUEST
And I feel like depending on what your group needs, like what are the contexts, I feel like that's where I've shifted.
Clark LaidlawGUEST
So I'm better understanding the context and maybe what the group needs, you know, so if somebody sleeps in and, yeah, we've had examples of that over the last couple of years where I've had to make a decision, do we not play the player because he's been late for the bus or he's been late, you know, to something and I just feel it's not as important as other things, like do they plan their weeks well, do they train, you know, do they have an intention for training every day, are they clipping their training, you know, sending reviews, are they contributing in meetings? Like that's the stuff that I get way more passionate around now than, than is somebody late for, for a bus or, but you know, you can't have anarchy and it's just a free for all.