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New All Blacks coach to be appointed within 'the next four to six weeks'

Ian Foster head coach of New Zealand looks on ahead of The Rugby Championship match between the New Zealand All Blacks and Argentina Pumas at Orangetheory Stadium on August 27, 2022 in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Photo by Joe Allison/Getty Images)

Following months of debate, discussion and speculation, New Zealand Rugby have confirmed that the next All Blacks head coach will be appointed within “the next four to six weeks.”

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New Zealand Rugby are set to steer clear of tradition this year, and announce the All Blacks’ coach for 2024 and beyond ahead of this year’s World Cup in France.

Crusaders coach Scott Robertson appears to be among the leading candidates for the position, along with Japan’s Jamie Joseph.

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Robertson, who has coached the Crusaders to six titles in as many years, made international last month as he said that an announcement would be made by NZR “in the next few days.”

While that time period has come and gone, NZR chairman Dame Patsy Reddy has officially confirmed that an announcement within six weeks.

“Following wide-ranging consultation and after carefully weighing up all scenarios and the key lessons from 2019, New Zealand Rugby is now commencing a process for selecting the All Blacks Head Coach from 2024,” Reddy said in a statement.

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“We appreciate these decisions are challenging as well try to find the balance between public scrutiny and high-performance expectations, within the need to safeguard our responsibilities and ensure we are prioritising conversations internally with our people.

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“Until now, New Zealand Rugby has been reluctant to talk publicly about an appointment process for the All Blacks coach to protect the integrity of the process, and to minimise the scrutiny on the individuals involved. Recent events, however, necessitate some clarity.

“Noting the divergent views as to the best timing for this process and that neither timing window is perfect, out of respect for the people involved, New Zealand Rugby will not be making any further comment until a decision has been reached.

“This will be concluded in the next four to six weeks.”

The All Blacks kick-off their World Cup preparations with a Test match against Argentina in Mendoza on July 8th.

New Zealand will also take on Australia and South Africa in the Rugby Championship, before facing the defending world champions again at Twickenham later this year.

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G 717 days ago

and Foster can reapply 🤣

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JW 6 hours ago
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Yeah, that’s what I was referring to too. You know in that situation the kind of things that form your picture of NRL or A league etc disappear in the case of kiwi rugby supporters, where they believe they have that advantage over aus rugby.


I have to put my hand up here. While I can see the reasoning behind a much better Reds, and even though they were good enough to win against the top 3 last year, I still don’t see them climbing (places) like you’d expect (all fair and reasonable points aside I mean).


But yes, I asked that because I do find aussie rugby supporters unique in this example of pragmatism. Look, I still think the circumstances dictate that it is why there isn’t more support for rugby in aus (they would need to win more like anything), but it is a) the kind of outlook that made my try to think of the SR standings in a way unassociated to nationality, and b) something that should be captured somehow and adopted by everyone.


Because I have no doubt SR died because of nationalism. Here, like with your above example, all there were for years were complaints of how better kiwi teams weren’t getting a deserved finals ranking. Now while the whole topic is complicated to get right, to have it get to the point where one side almost wants to kill it off and drive the otherside away is just not healthy.


I honestly think there are really easy things to do that could resolve the problem (if aus rugby culture couldn’t be copied/spread lol) like having even just a few players in each others teams. SR’s getting by right now because aussies population is so big there are still enough core fans that can have your outlook (though that survey said nearly a third also support another country?), but everything changes, and if the shoe is on the other foot at some time in the future I’d imagine that problem would “remain“ just long enough that NZ wouldn’t be able to “get by”.


There are just so many sports like SR that don’t have a parity system and end up with this sort of predictability that must be hard to ignore and get excited about. That its not down to something simple like being the richest is irrelevant. Visiting Japan it was really interesting to see how they had become supporters of these particular top sides. What do Canadians think about the Stanley Cup going to teams out of Law Vegas and Florida?

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