Hawke's Bay Tuis coach Tom Blake is pulling the pin on coaching the flagship women's rugby team.
"I'm dropping the Tuis and going back to the development side of things," Blake said yesterday. "I've told the [Hawke's Bay Rugby] Union that I'm not the right guy for the job and that I'm into development."
The revelation from the Havelock North Rugby Club women's coach came immediately after he pulled out of the Bay women's sevens campaign because of a paucity of players.
"It's a huge shame, especially for those who really wanted to play. Only five or six of them turned up for training after 10 to 12 in the first one so my manager and I looked at each other and wondered if we were simply wasting our time," he lamented, after starting training five weeks ago.
"To be honest the girls are scared of hard work but there's also cross codes with touch and basketball where you don't have to train much."
