{"id":516197,"date":"2026-03-03T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516197\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:04:08","slug":"boks-coach-tony-brown-surprised-by-the-position-the-abs-find-themselves-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516197\/","title":{"rendered":"Boks coach Tony Brown surprised by the position the ABs find themselves in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Respected former All Black fly-half and current Springbok assistant coach Tony Brown<\/a> has expressed his shock at the decision to axe Scott Robertson.<\/p>\n

Robertson, affectionately known as Razor, was cut by New Zealand<\/a> Rugby after a year-end review in December, and Brown believes his replacement will be named \u2018sometimes this week\u2019.<\/p>\n

He added that regardless of who becomes their new head coach is, the All Blacks<\/a> will push the Springboks to their limits this year.<\/p>\n

Brown was speaking at the broad-ranging media briefing, headlined by South African Rugby Union CEO Rian Oberholzer, Springbok head coach Rassie Erasmus<\/a> and his entire coaching panel.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, as it played out, it was very surprising that New Zealand Rugby made a change,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThey obviously felt that it was required.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s close ally, former Japan<\/a> head coach Jamie Joseph<\/a>, headlines the All Black candidates \u2018shortlist\u2019, with Japan-based Dave Rennie the other front-runner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they are looking at appointing a coach this week at some stage,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI only know as much as you guys, but it\u2019s obviously between Dave Rennie and Jamie Joseph,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are both quality coaches, both experienced at an international level.\u201d<\/p>\n

He felt the dramatic change in personnel won\u2019t diminish the threat the All Blacks pose to the world champion Springboks during the four-Test \u2018Greatest Rivalry\u2019 series later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever gets the job, I can guarantee you the All Blacks will be very good this year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Brown made it clear he won\u2019t be jumping ship \u2013 from the Boks to the All Blacks \u2013 if Joseph gets the job.<\/p>\n

The Kiwi has been offered an extension on his contract in South Africa, beyond the 2027 World Cup, but he has not given it any thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just going to get through these next two years fully committed to South Africa<\/a> until after the World Cup, and what will be will be.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I just haven\u2019t really thought about what I\u2019m going to do after the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Respected former All Black fly-half and current Springbok assistant coach Tony Brown has expressed his shock at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-516197","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\/516197","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=516197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}