{"id":75677,"date":"2025-08-17T19:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75677\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:04:21","slug":"all-blacks-assistant-disappointed-with-parts-of-argentina-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75677\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks assistant disappointed with parts of Argentina victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The All Blacks<\/a> were leading by 21 points at halftime, and you got the feeling they could run away with it in the second half, after dominating the lineout and the scrum in the first 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

That was far from the case, as Argentina<\/a> managed to wrestle themselves back in the game at the start of the second half, scoring back-to-back converted tries.<\/p>\n

For All Blacks assistant coach Scott Hansen, he was disappointed with the 20-minute period after halftime, during which they gave Argentina the opportunity to close the gap.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe word would be challenging, not so comfy sitting in the box watching that,\u201d Hansen told Jason Pine on Newstalk ZB.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome messages at halftime around how we continued to apply pressure didn\u2019t quite get that the way we wanted to, so there were some learnings, but we need to be better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the first 20 minutes after halftime being a bit sloppy, Hansen was pleased with the way the All Blacks bounced back and scored a couple of late tries to confirm the bonus point.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fair question to ask about the final 20; what it gave us was a bonus point win, so we\u2019ll take that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll acknowledge the first 20 minutes in the second half, and also the end of the game, where we managed it better around our momentum, and defended that we were better in the middle field, and the like.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s a big question, but what we\u2019re going to understand also is that we\u2019re happy to get the bonus point one and get out of here, take our learnings, and we\u2019ll get into Buenos Aires next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hansen explains that they did do things well with ball in hand, especially up front with the lineout maul.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we shifted the ball well, when we had good momentum, we were hard to handle. So that\u2019s really positive around our game.<\/p>\n

\u201cPut some really good pressure around our set piece, I think we can be really proud and confident of what our scrum and also our driving maul.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s definitely really positive platforms to work off. Jason Ryan is doing a great job there for us, so a lot of positives around that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Rugby Championship<\/p>\n

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Argentina <\/p>\n

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New Zealand <\/p>\n

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Pine asked Hansen about whether the All Blacks assistant coach believes his team has improved since the home France<\/a> series, ahead of some big upcoming Test matches in the Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we continue to improve. This is again, around our set piece and defensively in the middle of the field at some stages there, collision wise, really good.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are always areas we want to be better in, and the thing with the boys coming in the shed was a lot of them said straight away, Monday\u2019s review is going to show us this.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what we had to acknowledge also is a lot of positives and when we use the ball on our terms, when we used our skill set well, as we discussed earlier, we were hard to manage, so we\u2019re really happy to leave Cordoba with a bonus point in what\u2019s going to be in a really challenging competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting halfback Cortez Ratima<\/a> was substituted in the 49th minute for Finlay Christie<\/a>, something that Hansen believes was a good move considering they were able to get Christie some important minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had good momentum in that stage, and we felt getting Finlay on would give us what we needed; it also got to get him into our game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got a great relationship with Beauden Barrett<\/a> at 10, so we\u2019re really confident with that decision, and Cortez gave us some good energy and play in our game, now he\u2019s got some minutes in the All Black jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks were leading by 21 points at halftime, and you got the feeling they could run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-75677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75677","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=75677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}