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Black Ferns starting to gel under guidance of elite coaching panel

Less than six weeks out from the Women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, the 5 time rugby world cup winning Black Ferns are showing signs they will once again be a formidable force when the tournament gets underway on 8 October 2022.

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After a less than satisfactory northern hemisphere tour at the end of last year where they were well accounted for by England and France, and some serious internal upheaval with former coach Glenn Moore stepping down, it’s been quite the turn around for the Black Ferns.

Having assembled an elite group of super coaches with Wayne Smith at the helm and the likes of Sir Graham Henry and Mike Cron among the assistants, many new players have been blooded.

A fresh squad and renewed competition for starting positions saw the Black Ferns take out the Pacific Four series earlier this year, and put on some red hot form against the Wallaroos in the opening test of the O’Reilly Cup last weekend.

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One thing is for sure, these Black Ferns are on the rise and will be a difficult prospect for all opposition at their first ever Women’s Rugby World Cup at home in New Zealand.

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JW 1 hour ago
'They smelt it': Scott Robertson says Italy sensed All Blacks' vulnerability

Even the 20/30 cappers did too I reckon.


IDK, I think Jordan has a limited life span in this side unless he can develop more to his game. Like you go on to mention, I think theyres more important things to worry about than the effectiveness of someone's extra strings, or secondary components to their game.


Bash backs are Fosters thing, and to a large part they've made it work. Theyre now one of the best teams in the world.


They boy's trucked it up a bit against Italy in the redzone, and against France, wasn't that effective without the right players probably.


Try and take a look at it this way. Dissapointed Havili and Blackadder were in the side? Havili despite clearly shown that he can't do what the team needs at 12 was kept on for the RWC. Back goes down and he brings in Blackadder who doesn't play. Refuses to drop Christie when he should and look who starts this season. Beauden Barret not playing well enough to keep his 10 jersey but we gotta keep him in the side. Weve only got one 8, we stuff developing another I'll just play Ardie every game.


This years team wasn't burdened overly with injuries but they were in every position Razor might have wanted to try and development, severely limiting options. I'm not defending Razor as there was also plenty of other opportunity to make up for it and he was a little gunshy, but I'm also not going to overly criticise him because he chose cohesion over a black slate.

How long are we going to keep blaming All Black failings on Ian Foster.

I think more and more people are on board with it being time to try alternatives, but then again, how would they have reacted to a loss against Italy? 😉

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