{"id":561398,"date":"2026-03-24T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561398\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:48:13","slug":"new-zealand-coach-dave-rennie-shakes-up-back-room-team-as-2027-rugby-world-cup-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561398\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand coach Dave Rennie shakes up back room team as 2027 Rugby World Cup looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie on Tuesday named his back room team to take New Zealand through to next year\u2019s Rugby World Cup, retaining one old face but turning mostly to former assistants from his successful club coaching career.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 62-year-old former Wallabies coach Rennie has been tasked with whipping New Zealand into shape for next year\u2019s World Cup in Australia following a scathing 2025 performance review and a rumoured player revolt against previous head coach Scott Robertson.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New Zealand are in Pool A at the tournament with hosts Australia, Chile and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jason Ryan, who was an assistant to Robertson and his predecessor, Ian Foster, keeps his role as forwards coach.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Neil Barnes, who worked with Rennie at Waikato Chiefs up to 2017, comes in as senior assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Previous head coach Scott Robertson was sacked midway through a four-year contract. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e901ddd3-ba40-498c-b6e2-ff136c905fbd_a5a3bbbc.jpg\" title=\"Previous head coach Scott Robertson was sacked midway through a four-year contract. Photo: AP\"\/>Previous head coach Scott Robertson was sacked midway through a four-year contract. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Former All Blacks captain Tana Umaga is the new defence coach, while former Scotland captain and British and Irish Lion Mike Blair was named attack coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie on Tuesday named his back room team to take New Zealand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[10751,64,63,30330,228143,2592,201597,10340,234130,26779,2328,88489,276857,276636,1736,760,15131,85],"class_list":["post-561398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-all-blacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chile","tag-dave-rennie","tag-france","tag-glasgow-warriors","tag-hong-kong","tag-ian-foster","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-jason-ryan","tag-kobe-steelers","tag-mike-blair","tag-new-zealand","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561398","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=561398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}