{"id":299016,"date":"2025-11-21T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299016\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:01:16","slug":"tetchy-all-blacks-boss-scott-robertson-claps-back-at-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetchy All Blacks boss Scott Robertson claps back at reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Robertson took issue with a reporter\u2019s question in his pre-match press conference ahead of the All Blacks\u2019 clash with Wales on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand take on Steve Tandy\u2019s men knowing that their Grand Slam hopes are already over following their 33-19 defeat to England.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of criticism has come their way after their third loss of the year, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tag\/scott-robertson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robertson<\/a> himself under fire having overseen yet another disappointing result.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure increasing on Razor<\/p>\n<p>The pressure is unsurprisingly increasing on the head coach, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/new-zealand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> squad, but the 51-year-old did not seem to like her referencing it.<\/p>\n<p>She asked: \u201cWhat have you been talking to the team about in terms of there being so much pressure on this team and trying to lift spirts\u2026\u201d before Robertson then interrupted the journalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re really talking this up, you\u2019re quite dramatic aren\u2019t you?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s head coach did then answer the question but it was still rather abrupt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe focus on what we could have done better last week and then get on with it. There\u2019s some really good stuff in there, so you look at that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Robertson didn\u2019t seem super stoked with this line of questioning<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udfc9\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dinxr7jXUH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dinxr7jXUH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Wall (@JamieWall2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamieWall2\/status\/1991650472282013938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/all-blacks-team-five-takeaways-as-axe-wielding-scott-robertson-offers-opportunities-to-young-and-old-in-final-test-of-the-year-against-wales\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks team: Five takeaways as axe-wielding Scott Robertson offers opportunities to young and old in final Test of the year against Wales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it has not been a disastrous year for the All Blacks, there has been plenty of disappointments after they failed to regain the Rugby Championship title.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand lost to Argentina for the first time in South America before they suffered a record defeat at the hands of the Springboks.<\/p>\n<p>Missing out on the Grand Slam<\/p>\n<p>After missing out on the big southern hemisphere title, extra expectation was placed on them to win the Grand Slam on their end-of-year tour.<\/p>\n<p>It began well enough with victories over Ireland and Scotland, but their inability to perform consistently well throughout the 80 minutes cost them against England last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Borthwick\u2019s men proved too strong for them as a result, leading to another inquest back home in New Zealand as to what is currently going wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParts of that Irish game, parts of the Scottish game, probably in all games we\u2019ve had patches but, to be frank with you, the consistency of it,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to wrestle all momentum back is a big one for us. Test footy is the tightest it\u2019s ever been and you\u2019re not going to win all of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to have moments that don\u2019t go your way but getting it back is the key for us. All sides have got their strengths and the ability to make sure that you keep your game flowing and get your rhythm back is really critical for us, so that\u2019s been a focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/sir-john-kirwan-scott-robertsons-all-blacks-are-just-not-good-enough-and-its-really-upsetting-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sir John Kirwan: Scott Robertson\u2019s All Blacks are just not good enough and it\u2019s really upsetting me<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Robertson took issue with a reporter\u2019s question in his pre-match press conference ahead of the All Blacks\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-299016","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\/299016","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=299016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}