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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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CO 6 minutes ago
Scott Robertson's disappointing Ruben Love decision

Will Jordan is as good as any fullback in the world and at six foot two is backed up by younger, larger talent at fullback like Sullivan and Spencer. Ruben Love is a slightly larger but less eccentric version of McKenzie at this stage in his development.


McKenzie, he's like a wildly energetic dog that doesn't stop being a pup until the age of six.


McKenzie is no longer the young pup, he's entering his best years as a ten, he's been a test player for nine years and that's really starting to produce under Razor.


NZ sometimes pigeon holes players early and can be blind to the McKenzie late bloomers, McKenzie is a loyal, passionate Allblack and it's only because of a double world player of the year that he's not starting at ten each time for the Allblacks.


For those that get to meet McKenzie he's a relaxed, friendly, courteous and composed person and he is looking likely to peak as a ten at RWC.


However, McKenzie isn't really the guy we need to replace and Love is the nearest thing NZ has as a younger model. Instead NZ needs to be looking for a guy with the size and height of Beauden, Pollard, Farrell, Larkham, Sexton.


Carter was a freak at ten and McKenzies also really special but the games now dominated by first fives that are noticeably over six foot. A smaller guy needs to be freakishly talented.


Love is a handy player that plays well at both fullback and ten, he's got a really good mindset and a superb footballer like McKenzie but I'm a crowded fullback field that still has Jordie Barret around to fill in, Love needs to spend a lot more time at ten, a position that NZ is struggling with for world class depth.


As for Naitoa, he needs a run at six, he's a lock that's really better suited to six.


The French are a handful and the Allblacks can really build a strong year by winning the third test, once the games under control then Love should be swapped with McKenzie to have his chance at ten.

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CO 50 minutes ago
Are other All Blacks better suited to number six than Tupou Vaa'i?

Some Bok supporters might argue in vain but Vaa’i is the model that superseded the previous model known as the Pieter-Steph du Toit.


Hansen's pack got beaten to a pulp in 2019 by the English pack and it would've made zero difference who started at six.


Believing that Scooter starting at six was because they lost that semifinal ignores the reality that Hansen had overstayed his welcome as head coach and having effectively lost the Lions tour and become besotted with SBW should've been fired in 2017 and replaced with any one of Rennie, Schmidt or Joseph.


Both Nonu and Kaino should've been in that 2019 squad. Proven world cup final starters.


Frizzell is never getting the six jersey, he had a shocker of a world cup final and is yesterday's man dining out on one good performance against the Bok B team at Mt Smart. Frizzell is a myth.


The Allblacks current pack needs to bulk up due to it having a lot of small back rowers and no, Finau is not good enough to start, he's not direct enough or punishing enough.


The Allblacks need to stop anointing Sititi as the greatest thing since sliced bread, he's done very little this year, Christian is looking very solid at eight and seven is Saveas best spot to keep Christian starting.


Rassie is using loosies at hooker and so should the Allblacks. Playing Vaa’i at six isn't three locks, it's ensuring size to counter the other tier one packs and Vaa'i is fantastic at six.


Kirifi is okay but again hasn't done much and is too little, Lakai and Kirifi shouldn't be in the squad together.

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