{"id":289015,"date":"2025-11-16T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:16:10","slug":"all-blacks-assistant-coach-admits-poor-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289015\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks assistant coach admits poor performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Moments have been a common word in and around All Blacks<\/a> camp in the past couple of weeks, with Scott Robertson\u2019s side managing to win games in the final 20 minutes through some individual brilliance by the likes of Damian McKenzie.<\/p>\n

But this time around against England<\/a> at Allianz Stadium in London, it was Steve Borthwick\u2019s England side who took their opportunities to take a famous victory over the All Blacks, to end the hopes of a Grand Slam for the Kiwis.<\/p>\n

All Blacks assistant coach Scott Hansen, who spoke to\u00a0Sky Sport after the England defeat, admits that it just wasn\u2019t good enough from his side.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisappointed tonight, on our efforts and our actions, but not good enough tonight,\u201d Hansen said to Sky Sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey went to the air when they needed to, they\u2019re very composed, very disciplined in what they did and we didn\u2019t quite get those battles the way we needed to at times. A lot of players going backwards, and not always having eyes on the ball.<\/p>\n

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Team Form <\/p>\n

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Last 5 Games<\/p>\n

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4\/5<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd they won some of those scraps, that compromised our momentum at times. In the first half, when we showed some composure and we got our shoulders through, we had some good opportunities in attack but all credit to England.<\/p>\n

\u201cEngland defended really well, spread the field, and we didn\u2019t always make the right decision on our attack, whether or not we had to go through them or around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The All Blacks will now head to Cardiff to take on Wales<\/a> who are coming off the back of their first victory at home in over two years, while Robertson\u2019s side will now be looking to finish their end-of-year Northern Tour with a bounce-back victory.<\/p>\n

For Hansen, he believes that it\u2019s important that the team focus on what they did well during the England Test, as well as identifying the areas where they struggled ahead of Wales.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for us just getting back, acknowledging what we did is important, but fundamentally for us, how we attacked and got caught in the middle of the field tonight, we\u2019re able to take the opportunities in front. So there\u2019ll be some good pictures for us to learn from.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need to focus on the week. It\u2019s really important not to pass it in any regards, you focus on the week because it\u2019s important for us. Now, we always knew it was either going to be one where we\u2019re going for a Grand Slam, or we we need to bounce back aggressively, and that\u2019s going to be the focus for the week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moments have been a common word in and around All Blacks camp in the past couple of weeks,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-289015","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\/289015","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=289015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}