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Steve Hansen retrouve les All Blacks

Steve Hansen and Ian Foster arrive at All Blacks training. Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images

Il a commencé avec l’Australie, il terminera avec la Nouvelle-Zélande. Après avoir refusé l’offre d’Eddie Jones d’intégrer plus longuement le staff des Wallabies, Steve Hansen est de retour en noir.

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Les Néo-Zélandais s’étaient indignés lorsque le sélectionneur champion du monde avait rejoint les Wallabies de Jones avant le tournoi en France. Le Premier ministre Chris Hipkins avait même plaisanté en disant qu’il faudrait peut-être lui retirer sa nationalité.

Le talonneur des All Blacks, Dane Coles, s’était déclaré « abasourdi » lorsqu’il avait appris que Hansen aidait leurs grands rivaux.

Jones avait alors précisé que Hansen et lui étaient de grands copains et qu’il lui avait demandé d’apporter un regard neuf sur les Wallabies, qui n’avaient pas connu la victoire en cinq matchs en 2023 avant leur victoire en premier match de poule face à la Géorgie.

Mais Hansen, 64 ans, qui a mené la Nouvelle-Zélande à la gloire lors du tournoi de 2015, a rejoint les All Blacks à leur base de Lyon.

L’entraîneur de la mêlée néo-zélandaise, Jason Ryan, a confirmé que Steve Hansen avait passé en revue la sélection après la défaite amère des Néo-Zélandais face à la France à Paris, lors de leur première participation à la Coupe du monde.

« Il est ici jusqu’à mercredi et c’est une bonne chose », a confié Ryan.

« Il est sans doute le meilleur entraîneur que nous ayons jamais eu, alors c’est vraiment exceptionnel de l’avoir ici, c’est vraiment exceptionnel. »

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Ayant tous deux des liens avec le rugby de Canterbury en Nouvelle-Zélande, Ryan a expliqué que Hansen avait depuis longtemps une grande influence sur lui.

« D’un point de vue personnel, il a été un soutien incroyable pour moi tout au long de ma carrière en Super Rugby et jusqu’à mon arrivée chez les All Blacks », a-t-il poursuivi.

« C’est quelqu’un avec qui je reste en contact tout le temps et le fait de l’avoir ici, il a un œil magnifique sur lui et lance quelques bonnes réparties.

« Mais il aide aussi les entraîneurs et veut avant tout que les All Blacks s’améliorent. »

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I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


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The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


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The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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