{"id":338170,"date":"2025-12-09T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338170\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:24:08","slug":"new-zealand-rugby-offers-context-to-all-blacks-coaching-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338170\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Rugby offers context to All Blacks coaching roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s widely known that the Robertson-Hansen dynamic was built over multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/crusaders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crusaders<\/a> championships. While that winning recipe was essentially transplanted into the All Blacks alongside fellow Crusaders and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/canterbury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canterbury<\/a> coaching alumni, the result hasn\u2019t been all smooth-sailing, with two departures from the coaching cohort.<\/p>\n<p>Initial attack coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/leon-macdonald\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leon MacDonald<\/a> departed after just five Test matches, and Jason Holland, also in an attack role, announced prior to the Northern Tour that he would not seek a new contract with the team after completing his two-year contract this summer.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s left the All Blacks with a vacancy. Lendrum said the post-season review will assess which expertise would benefit the group most, helping steer the direction of any appointment process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe have got some decisions to make around the coaching group with all options on the table,\u201d Lendrum said. \u201cWhether to directly replace Jason or to look at the balance that we\u2019ve got, and to consider if there is any other way to do things. That\u2019s all part of the purpose of the review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lendrum then clarified that his \u201call options on the table\u201d comment wasn\u2019t indicative of coaches being under pressure in their respective roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s widely known that the Robertson-Hansen dynamic was built over multiple Crusaders championships. While that winning recipe was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-338170","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\/338170","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=338170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}