An oral history of handover.doc, Scott Robertson's Crusaders legacy

Sport Review #270

Scott ‘Razor’ Robertson, former head coach - Yeah, I wrote a handover. I reckon if you followed it you should win the Super Rugby fairly comfortably.

Colin Mansbridge, Crusaders CEO - When you have a coach of Razors’ caliber, it’s vital to capture that depth of intellectual property so it lives on in your organisation forever. So we got him to do a word doc.

Scott ‘Razor’ Robertson - It was 3-4 pages. handover.doc. I just saved it on the desktop.

Dayle ‘Wizard’ McBaggins, Crusaders IT Support - Razors’ laptop went into the cupboard. We’d sent everyone an email last year telling them to put all their documents in Teams, so I wasn’t concerned

Rob Penny, Crusaders head coach - I emailed Razor asking where the fuck the document was, his out of office said to contact me with any questions! Funny.

Storm McBaggins, son of Dayle ‘Wizard’ McBaggins, Crusaders IT Support - I found a laptop in the cupboard when daddy took me to work in the holidays, I loaded Fortnite on it.

Janet Heels, Crusaders HR - Off boarding processes could have been followed more closely.

Anonymous commenter on Legend of Marty Banks facebook page - It’s almost like Razor did a handover document and Rob’s not got hold of it lol.

Rob Penny - I was trying to log into Teams, the password was defaulting to the kids’ educational account, telling me to download authenticator. No-one’s got time for that shit.

Scott ‘Razor’ Robertson - NZR uses macs, it was out of my hands.

Grizz Wylie, former Canterbury coach - What the ever loving fuck is going on.

Storm McBaggins - I had to delete some surfing and breakdance instructional videos to make space, Fortnite takes up a lot of memory.

Colin Mansbridge - We have reviewed our IT policies, and they failed the Crusaders ‘legacy’ values.

Thanks for reading - Richard

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