{"id":453057,"date":"2026-02-02T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T06:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:01:09","slug":"former-all-black-on-why-jamie-joseph-should-be-razors-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453057\/","title":{"rendered":"Former All Black on why Jamie Joseph should be Razor’s successor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former All Black Israel<\/a> Dagg has given his take on what he believes will be crucial for the new All Blacks<\/a> head coach when they take over, nearly three weeks after Scott Robertson<\/a> departed the role.<\/p>\n

Robertson left the role as head coach after an end-of-year review from NZR Chair David Kirk<\/a>, former All Black Keven Mealamu<\/a>, and Don Tricker showed that the \u201ctrajectory\u201d of the team was not on track.<\/p>\n

NZR then outlined what the application criteria was for the new head coach, which included having international head coaching experience and being from New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Dagg, who played 66 Tests for the All Blacks, explained on his\u00a0Sport Nation\u00a0radio show on Monday morning that he\u2019s of the belief that Highlanders<\/a> head coach Jamie Joseph<\/a> is the front-runner for the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cJamie Joseph for me, is probably the front runner right now. And the reason I say that there\u2019s a lot of speculation, talk about Dave Rennie and him coming over to coach, and he might apply, I don\u2019t know,\u201d Dagg said on Sport Nation Breakfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the reason why Jamie Joseph gets the nod for me is, I think he\u2019s in the country, he\u2019s around the Kiwi players. He\u2019s got a good relationship, he\u2019s coached here for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dagg admits that whoever comes into the role must put the jersey first and prioritise getting back to where the All Blacks have been previously.<\/p>\n

\u201cJamie Joseph, he\u2019s in this country, he\u2019s probably going to keep and retain majority of that management group, and he jumps in there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, there\u2019s a guy like Jamie Joseph that\u2019ll bring them together, and there\u2019ll be no one out there that will probably go in their own little line or down their own little journey, there\u2019ll be a huge amount of togetherness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care who\u2019s going to be coaching the All Blacks, I just want someone to come in, and I want them to put that jersey and player, coaching group, management, whatever it is, put that jersey first.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut that jersey at the forefront of their mind and know that there is so much that they\u2019re playing for at the moment, go in there and and get back to to where we were. Back in the day, the All Blacks being the team that was so revered, that\u2019s all I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old former player turned broadcaster pinpoints consistency as one thing that must be improved, along with the style of game the All Blacks are looking to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re waiting for performances. We\u2019re waiting for consistency, we\u2019re waiting for something that is part of our lives, and that\u2019s a brand of rugby that is so enjoyable to watch. It\u2019s tough, it\u2019s uncompromising. You know, we stay in the fight for the full 80 minutes, so like the head coach is pivotal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All Black Israel Dagg has given his take on what he believes will be crucial for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-453057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453057","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=453057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}