{"id":297632,"date":"2025-11-20T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297632\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:50:08","slug":"repeated-claim-levelled-against-new-zealand-rubbished-by-rival-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297632\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeated claim levelled against New Zealand rubbished by rival coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wales<\/a> boss Steve Tandy insists New Zealand\u2019s \u201caura\u201d remains undimmed, despite the All Blacks<\/a> making wholesale changes for their Cardiff clash.<\/p>\n

New Zealand<\/a> have reacted to their 33-19 defeat to England<\/a> by making a dozen changes, with only captain Scott Barrett<\/a>, Simon Parker<\/a> and Will Jordan<\/a> remaining from the side beaten at Allianz Stadium last weekend.<\/p>\n

The fact All Blacks boss Scott Robertson<\/a> has chosen to rest so many frontline players reflects the huge gulf between the two nations.<\/p>\n

New Zealand are ranked second in the world and Wales 12th, with the All Blacks rattling up 33 consecutive wins in this fixture \u2013 a sequence stretching back to 1953.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s intimidation, there\u2019s massive respect and understanding what they are going to bring and what we are going to bring,\u201d Tandy said of the sizeable task facing Wales.<\/p>\n

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Wales <\/p>\n

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New Zealand <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s always that aura around the All Blacks, but ultimately our boys have got their own mindset on how they go and attack the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a sense of excitement to go and test yourself against the best in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the depth they\u2019ve got. We\u2019ve lost a lot of senior figures over a few years, but the only way to gain that is by experiencing it and going there.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow good is it going to be for Joe (Roberts) and Max (Llewellyn) to go up against the centre partnership of (Rieke) Ioane and (Anton) Lienert-Brown?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to learn and hopefully those experiences will hold us in good stead going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tandy says his first memories of the All Blacks were as a seven-year-old boy watching their 1987 World Cup final victory in the competition\u2019s maiden tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember them at World Cups, watching Sean Fitzpatrick<\/a> and John Kirwan<\/a> playing France,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose style of men and then people like Josh Kronfeld<\/a>, Jonah Lomu<\/a> and guys like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve always been at the forefront of the game and they\u2019ve driven it on as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just get the game, there\u2019s no robotic players. The way they see it, train, live it, what it means culturally as well and the extras they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

After losing his opening game against Argentina, Tandy claimed his first Wales win with a 24-23 victory over Japan<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

Jarrod Evans\u2019 successful last-gasp penalty was greeted with as much relief as joy \u2013 and Tandy admits preparing for the All Blacks has been easier than it was against Japan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot written about being written off (against New Zealand), but the focus has to be on ourselves,\u201d said Tandy.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes it make it a little bit easier? Potentially. But our boys\u2019 mindset is we need to be better and concentrate on our performance and growing on this journey together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales boss Steve Tandy insists New Zealand\u2019s \u201caura\u201d remains undimmed, despite the All Blacks making wholesale changes for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-297632","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\/297632","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=297632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}