All Blacks 2026
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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.
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@MN5 said in All Blacks 2026:
@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.
It was from an article in 2003 about the RWC where the Walrus was listing NZ players of PI descent and their islands.
Not an urban legend, I had a copy because my mates in London cut it out and sent it to me.
Incidentally as Gallagher has been brought up, in my very brief period with a twitter account I had a fight with him as he was whining about PI players who didn't make the NZ U20s one year (when they didn't select younger players) then playing for a PI team but switching back to NZ. He just wouldn't admit that they were NZers.
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Unbelievable Absolutely unprecedented in the history of NZ Rugby in terms of massive story
Only other things I can think were just as big in and around NZ RugbyAll Blacks 2007 exit from the RWC and it’s fair to say that coach could count his blessings the board listened to him (luckily it turned well 4 years later )
Rugby going professional and the direction that it could have gone back in 1995-96 and the controversy surrounding players secretly signing
Once again thanks to an initial group of players staying loyal and signing with NZ Rugby and the work of the late Jake HobbsKeith Murdoch being sent home from the 72-73 UK tour
The lack of support from the NZ management team and NZRFU was a disgraceYou could add in Buck Shelford’s dropping as captain ,The Wylie & Hart coaching duo debacle
and how could we not forget McCaw and Rutherford stuffing up the RWC hosting rightsI had heard some murmuring after New Year via a media contact that some big news was coming
Feel for Razor it’s never a good thing when any coach is fired even more so when it’s as high profile a job as this one is.
Possibly caught between the different ceilings from super level to International and dealing with players across Motu as opposed to predominantly crusaders region based players.
Met Razor a couple of times i found him a pretty decent type , Hope the guy bounces back mentally and is able to move on
Came onboard at a very tricky transitional period and given the expectation of the black jersey the pressure is another level compared to superWhomever comes in has a massive job in front of them because player power has determined the fate of 2 coaches in 2022 and 2026
Jamie Joseph may just be the old school coach that’s required ,who knows?Mark Robinson seems to have escaped any inquisition for me he has a lot to answer for
the one positive that has come out of this unfortunate process is the chairman David Kirk , next step is to find a CEO that’s singing from the same song sheet and has the best interests of NZ Rugby because current group are massive part of the bi product of where we are sitting -
Here’s a list of Kiwi coaches currently coaching in Europe:
International:
Andrew Goodman (Ireland / Backs)
Simon Mannix (Portugal / Head Coach)URC:
Clayton McMillan (Munster / Head Coach)
Filo Tiatia (Dragons / Head Coach)
Dale Macleod (Dragons / Defence)
Tyler Bleyendaal (Leinster / Attack)
Jared Payne (Scarlets / Defence)PREM:
Pat Lam (Bristol / Director of Rugby)
Nick Evans (Harlequins / Attack)Top 14:
Rudi Wulf (Toulon / Outside Backs)
Jerome Kaino (Toulouse / Skills)
Steven Setephano (Castres / Forwards)
Karena Wihongi (Castres / Scrum)
Joe Rokocoko (Racing 92 / Skills)
Benson Stanley (Montpellier / “Rucks and Contact Attitudes Coach”)May have missed a few... A lot of the Top 14 assistant jobs feel like jobs for former players.
Fuck knows what Benson Stanley is doing.
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