NZR cannot afford to sit idle on appointing the next All Blacks coach
Signposting that Ian Foster would ascend to Steve Hansen’s throne left the All Blacks without options back in 2019.
Hamish has been an opinion and sports writer for over 20 years in New Zealand, featuring on RNZ, New Zealand Herald, Stuff.co.nz, and RugbyPass.
Signposting that Ian Foster would ascend to Steve Hansen’s throne left the All Blacks without options back in 2019.
But look at the alternatives. It’s so long since anyone other than New Zealand and South Africa has won a Rugby World Cup it’s…
If nothing else, the recruitment of Burns is an admission of defeat. It says our pathways are broken and we need other people’s …
Rugby Australia possesses the stomach for hard decisions that New Zealand Rugby do not after sacking Dave Rennie.
This year is solely about the men’s Rugby World Cup. Super Rugby will be sacrificed in the name of the greater good, the NPC stu…
I read and hear that the floodgates would open if Barrett left. That fellow All Blacks would follow suit and Super Rugby would be …
Some people’s faces simply don’t fit, so we have to assume that this iteration of the All Blacks and New Zealand Rugby (NZR) d…
It would be a stretch to confidently say we have an outstanding or clearly defined All Blacks first XV in our midst.
I read and heard for weeks that playing England at Twickenham would define the All Blacks’ season. Nonsense.
The All Blacks and NZR would benefit greatly from taking a few pages from the Black Ferns’ playbook. Be open, be accessible, be …
A generation of future Black Ferns are being inspired as we speak, in numbers that would’ve been unimaginable only two or three …
But do you hear and hue and cry from our rugby public? No, you don’t because, as I suggested last week, we’ve become condition…
Mils Muliaina’s comment that it would be acceptable for the All Blacks to lose to Scotland, on their upcoming tour, is the sadly…
What’s the point of Tupou Vaa’i, Stephen Perofeta, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Folau Fakatava and others traipsing round with the All…
Let’s let the tournament breathe first. Let’s get a few more games under our belts, let’s get to the knockout rounds and the…
The ills that plague Australia’s national team have little or nothing to do with Dave Rennie.
What do the All Blacks have, beyond talent? We simply pick our most-talented players and then try and find a spot for them.
Who’ll be the star of the show at Marvel Stadium on Thursday? Will it be Rieko Ioane? Captain Fantastic Sam Cane? Marika Koroibe…
The team and NZR can’t have it both ways. Either every test result is important or none of them are.
Commercialising the All Blacks’ brand relies upon the team winning and they haven’t done a lot of that lately