All Blacks 2026
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@canefan said in All Blacks 2026:
@booboo said in All Blacks 2026:
As an aside... JJ was lined up as a replacement way before the review was due.
NZR knew this was happening.
Sauce?
Speculation
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@SouthernMann said in All Blacks 2026:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2026:
@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2026:
In all this talk of coaches would it behoove the ABs to try and add some foreign talent somewhere along the line?
Rassie employs non South Africans (Jerry Flannery as well as TB) probably for the express reason so that he doesn't have a biased echo chamber. An outsider perspective.
It was bad enough with a Tokoroan being a big part of the review team.
That's a village in Samoa isn't it...
It's in the south sea islands.
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@junior said in All Blacks 2026:
The guy going for the head coach should, IMO, be able to say who he wants to work with and also that they want to work with him.
The applicants should indicate to the board who their preferred coaching group would be (based on previous discussions), even if that info remains confidential. The last thing you want is for the head coach to promise you a group of A-level assistants and end up with B- or C-level.
Remember that Foster didn't get his preferred assistants either as that included Ryan and Brown.
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@SouthernMann said in All Blacks 2026:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2026:
@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2026:
In all this talk of coaches would it behoove the ABs to try and add some foreign talent somewhere along the line?
Rassie employs non South Africans (Jerry Flannery as well as TB) probably for the express reason so that he doesn't have a biased echo chamber. An outsider perspective.
It was bad enough with a Tokoroan being a big part of the review team.
That's a village in Samoa isn't it...
Stems from the 2007 Lions tour and the ignorance of British journos IIRC. Kevvie may have been the original Tokoroan. But let's not digress.
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@booboo Yeah during the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour in the week after the Brian O'Driscoll "I could have died" incident, Brendan Gallagher, an Irish journalist at the Daily Telegraph, made a quip about Kevin Mealamu being poached from the South Sea island of Tokoroa.
To this day, I am still not sure if he was being ignorant or ironic. But it was good trolling, I guess.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
@booboo Yeah during the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour in the week after the Brian O'Driscoll "I could have died" incident, Brendan Gallagher, an Irish journalist at the Daily Telegraph, made a quip about Kevin Mealamu being poached from the South Sea island of Tokoroa.
To this day, I am still not sure if he was being ignorant or ironic. But it was good trolling, I guess.
They'll probably accuse NZ of poaching coaches from Fiji if Pat Lam is in the mix,
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@Yeetyaah said in All Blacks 2026:
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If Tony Brown does choose his mate Rassie and the Spingboks rather than his old mucker Jamie and the All Blacks, then I think that make Jamie Jospeh much less of the favourite than many suppose.
We could see names like Vern Cotter, John Mitchell and Warren Gatland (especially if one of them can get Tana Umaga to agree to be their Assistant) entering the conversation more.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
@booboo Yeah during the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour in the week after the Brian O'Driscoll "I could have died" incident, Brendan Gallagher, an Irish journalist at the Daily Telegraph, made a quip about Kevin Mealamu being poached from the South Sea island of Tokoroa.
To this day, I am still not sure if he was being ignorant or ironic. But it was good trolling, I guess.
I thought it was the Walrus ?
Fuck the Walrus in any case.
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@tubbyj said in All Blacks 2026:
Also not only do the posters on here know more about international coaching than Scott Robertson but also Wayne Smith now.
Most of us have coached as many Tests as Razor, so...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2026:
The team needs a fresh start. I'd pick Wallace Sititi. ( despite a less than impressive second season )
When Dalton Papalii is there to do the heavy lifting he'll shine again.
Too early for Wallace and Roigard IMHO but they def. need to be in the Snr Mgmnt group.
How does Sititi get mentioned in the same breath as senior management group? He's a two year All Black with less than 50 first class games to his name and hardly first choice XV.
No just games played, but attitude. Looks a natural leader to me. Think we need some fresh thinking/blood and Roigard and Sititi
A review of post match commentary suggests that a number of people thought Sititi wasn't exactly leading by example. So I'm not clear on these qualities that catapult him into senior leadership. Perhaps in time they'll become evident.
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2026:
The team needs a fresh start. I'd pick Wallace Sititi. ( despite a less than impressive second season )
When Dalton Papalii is there to do the heavy lifting he'll shine again.
Too early for Wallace and Roigard IMHO but they def. need to be in the Snr Mgmnt group.
How does Sititi get mentioned in the same breath as senior management group? He's a two year All Black with less than 50 first class games to his name and hardly first choice XV.
No just games played, but attitude. Looks a natural leader to me. Think we need some fresh thinking/blood and Roigard and Sititi
A review of post match commentary suggests that a number of people thought Sititi wasn't exactly leading by example. So I'm not clear on these qualities that catapult him into senior leadership. Perhaps in time they'll become evident.
His dad was a legendary captain in charge of some phenomenal talent.
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@Bones said in All Blacks 2026:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2026:
The team needs a fresh start. I'd pick Wallace Sititi. ( despite a less than impressive second season )
When Dalton Papalii is there to do the heavy lifting he'll shine again.
Too early for Wallace and Roigard IMHO but they def. need to be in the Snr Mgmnt group.
How does Sititi get mentioned in the same breath as senior management group? He's a two year All Black with less than 50 first class games to his name and hardly first choice XV.
No just games played, but attitude. Looks a natural leader to me. Think we need some fresh thinking/blood and Roigard and Sititi
A review of post match commentary suggests that a number of people thought Sititi wasn't exactly leading by example. So I'm not clear on these qualities that catapult him into senior leadership. Perhaps in time they'll become evident.
His dad was a legendary captain in charge of some phenomenal talent.
I guess inheritance explains the success of King John after his father Henry II
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@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Bones said in All Blacks 2026:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2026:
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2026:
The team needs a fresh start. I'd pick Wallace Sititi. ( despite a less than impressive second season )
When Dalton Papalii is there to do the heavy lifting he'll shine again.
Too early for Wallace and Roigard IMHO but they def. need to be in the Snr Mgmnt group.
How does Sititi get mentioned in the same breath as senior management group? He's a two year All Black with less than 50 first class games to his name and hardly first choice XV.
No just games played, but attitude. Looks a natural leader to me. Think we need some fresh thinking/blood and Roigard and Sititi
A review of post match commentary suggests that a number of people thought Sititi wasn't exactly leading by example. So I'm not clear on these qualities that catapult him into senior leadership. Perhaps in time they'll become evident.
His dad was a legendary captain in charge of some phenomenal talent.
I guess inheritance explains the success of King John after his father Henry II
Edward Gibbon on Rome under Commodus compared to during the rule of his father Marcus Aurelius: "a kingdom of gold went to one of iron and rust."
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2026:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
@booboo Yeah during the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour in the week after the Brian O'Driscoll "I could have died" incident, Brendan Gallagher, an Irish journalist at the Daily Telegraph, made a quip about Kevin Mealamu being poached from the South Sea island of Tokoroa.
To this day, I am still not sure if he was being ignorant or ironic. But it was good trolling, I guess.
I thought it was the Walrus ?
Fuck the Walrus in any case.
Urban legend. Wasn't Jones. I think @sparky is correct.
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@booboo said in All Blacks 2026:
@MN5 said in All Blacks 2026:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
@booboo Yeah during the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour in the week after the Brian O'Driscoll "I could have died" incident, Brendan Gallagher, an Irish journalist at the Daily Telegraph, made a quip about Kevin Mealamu being poached from the South Sea island of Tokoroa.
To this day, I am still not sure if he was being ignorant or ironic. But it was good trolling, I guess.
I thought it was the Walrus ?
Fuck the Walrus in any case.
Urban legend. Wasn't Jones. I think @sparky is correct.
Sweet.
But still, fuck the Walrus anyway.
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@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
@Yeetyaah said in All Blacks 2026:
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If Tony Brown does choose his mate Rassie and the Spingboks rather than his old mucker Jamie and the All Blacks, then I think that make Jamie Jospeh much less of the favourite than many suppose.
We could see names like Vern Cotter, John Mitchell and Warren Gatland (especially if one of them can get Tana Umaga to agree to be their Assistant) entering the conversation more.
I don't think it will make much difference if Brown is available to be assistant. JJ did ABXV last year with no Tony Brown, I think the whole he has to have Tony is blown out of proportion. Tony is the one who says he would only do ABs with JJ, not other way around.
I would be happy with JJ and Dave Rennie, or anyone he thought, same as I would be happy with Rennie.
