{"id":190494,"date":"2025-10-04T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190494\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:53:08","slug":"all-blacks-captain-reflects-on-disappointing-rugby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190494\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks captain reflects on disappointing Rugby Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> ultimately didn\u2019t get what they wanted in this year\u2019s Rugby Championship, they still managed to preserve a couple of historic records in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The Bledisloe Cup will be in the trophy cabinet for another year, as the All Blacks beat the Wallabies in back-to-back weeks, but they\u2019ll be without the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/the-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship<\/a> trophy in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s victory at Optus Stadium in Perth was their eleventh straight win against the Wallabies, meaning the last defeat for the All Blacks in this fixture was in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Robertson\u2019s side also got through two tough Tests in Auckland, extending their unbeaten streak to 52 games at Eden Park, where they will keep that streak for another international season.<\/p>\n<p>All Blacks captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/scott-barrett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Barrett<\/a>, who missed last week\u2019s Test at Eden Park, says that his side were very happy to finish the Rugby Championship with back-to-back wins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think it\u2019s pleasing to finish the Rugby championship with a win like that. It wasn\u2019t pretty, but yeah we stayed tough tonight in greasy conditions,\u201d Barrett told reporters in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old admits that throughout the Rugby Championship, the All Blacks have learned lessons about the small margins in Test match rugby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think throughout this rugby championship, we\u2019ve learned that we need to front up every week when you put the jersey on, and a couple of times we clearly didn\u2019t do that and those are tough lessons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group\u2019s got few scars from that, and we want to have a bit of a refresh before we hit up north, and I guess chase that grand slam,\u201d Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams struggled at lineout time with the challenging conditions in Perth, and Barrett admits that his forward pack were far from perfect on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759621988_948_802.png.webp\" alt=\"Team Logo\"\/> Set Plays <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759621988_73_811.png.webp\" alt=\"Team Logo\"\/>          <\/p>\n<p>83%<\/p>\n<p>Restarts Received Win %<\/p>\n<p>75%<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/australia-vs-new-zealand\/?g=945413\/\" class=\"link-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah it was a greasy night and it was challenging to throw to the back. So we probably, you know, shifted a little bit, and we\u2019re just hoping to get in the air and I guess it wasn\u2019t a perfect night for our line out either by no stretch of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s challenging on both parts, but I guess we\u2019re pleased to come away with a win tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the All Blacks ultimately didn\u2019t get what they wanted in this year\u2019s Rugby Championship, they still managed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-190494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190494","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=190494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}