{"id":112037,"date":"2025-09-02T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112037\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:13:09","slug":"scott-robertson-on-bringing-in-wayne-smith-to-plan-bok-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112037\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Robertson on bringing in Wayne Smith to plan Bok assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> have welcomed back mastercoach Wayne Smith into the fold to help with their preparations ahead of their Springboks Test at Eden Park.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-All Black assistant has a long and storied history with the team over a 16-year period, as well as the Black Ferns, coming out of retirement to coach at the 2021 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson revealed that Smith had this week targeted as the time he would join the camp ahead of such an occasion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rassie Erasmus explains the Asenathi Ntlabakanye non-selection<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Rassie Erasmus explains the Asenathi Ntlabakanye non-selection<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir Wayne has been locked away in the calendar, this is the one he and all of us have noted,\u201d Robertson explained to media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s good, he\u2019s just got so much wisdom. 30 odd years in the business at the top level, he brings little bits of gold, \u2018Have you thought about this? Do you remember this? When I was here, we did this\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are the great things you have from someone like an old Koro, he knows his way around Test footy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s great to have here and we all respect him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While his last time in an official capacity with the All Blacks was in 2017 under former head coach Steve Hansen, Smith has maintained relationships with the team and current players.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the squad last year in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/wellington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wellington<\/a> ahead of the second Bledisloe Test which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/sam-cane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Cane<\/a> and TJ Perenara\u2019s 100th All Blacks Tests.<\/p>\n<p>In what might be a positive omen for the team, they won that fixture 33-13 with one of the best performances of Robertson\u2019s first year in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson has embraced the pressure of this Test which will be his first game against the Springboks on home soil, and third overall after losing his first two away last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cI\u2019ve drawn on my experience coaching over the years and what\u2019s really important, what wins games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cMy job is to set this team up to perform on Saturday night, so that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of power in fear as well. It gets your body ready for survival. That\u2019s the most human thing you can do \u2013 you\u2019re here to protect something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cOf course there\u2019s a little bit of a fear element, and that\u2019s part of being human.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks have welcomed back mastercoach Wayne Smith into the fold to help with their preparations ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-112037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}