{"id":377063,"date":"2025-12-29T00:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377063\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:13:06","slug":"all-blacks-star-as-ex-wallabies-coach-rennie-earns-japanese-bragging-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377063\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks star as ex-Wallabies coach Rennie earns Japanese bragging rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Ex-Wallabies boss Dave Rennie has continued his dominance of former All Black rivals Steve Hansen and Ian Foster, after the Kobe Steelers outclassed Verblitz 49-29 in Japan Rugby League One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Saturday&#8217;s match was the third meeting in Japan between the men, who had crossed paths in the Bledisloe Cup, and the third time the former Australia coach had prevailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of Super Rugby Pacific live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Ironically, much of the damage was done by a trio of All Blacks previously coached by the Verblitz mentors, with Ardie Savea scoring twice, while Test teammates Brodie Retallick and Anton Lienert-Brown also found their way to the try-line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Despite two tries in the final moments, the score flattered Verblitz, who had trailed 49-17 in the 79th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Former Wallaby Bernard Foley also had a great day with Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay, who ran up a remarkable 79-20 scoreline against Tokyo Sungoliath in what had been a top-of-the-table clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The 36-year-old scored a try among his 29-point haul, and kicked 11 goals from 14 attempts, as the Spears ran riot with 11 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The massive win has the Spears second on the standings ahead of the New Year&#8217;s holiday break, with Saitama Wild Knights the only other side unbeaten after their 33-3 win over Sagamihara Dynaboars on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Israel Folau and Samu Kerevi&#8217;s Urayasu D-Rocks are sixth after causing the upset of the weekend by beating last year&#8217;s playoff qualifiers Shizuoka Blue Revs, 34-21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It was D-Rocks&#8217; second win in three matches under their new coach, Englishman Graham Rowntree, after they won just three times in the whole of the last regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">BlackRams and Brave Lupus were the other victors over the weekend, at the expense of Mie Heat and Yokohama Eagles respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Wallabies boss Dave Rennie has continued his dominance of former All Black rivals Steve Hansen and Ian Foster,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,190835,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-377063","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-rugby-league-one","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377063","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=377063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}