{"id":9711,"date":"2025-07-21T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9711\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:28:10","slug":"all-blacks-assistant-reflects-on-missed-detail-in-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9711\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks assistant reflects on missed detail in preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although the July series against France<\/a> is over, All Blacks<\/a> assistant coach Scott Hansen won\u2019t be resting on his laurels, as they get ready for a huge Rugby Championship, which is underway in mid-August.<\/p>\n

The All Blacks were successful during a tough three-match series at home against France, winning all three encounters in Dunedin, Wellington, and Hamilton, respectively.<\/p>\n

The victories didn\u2019t come without hard work, challenge, and moments where the All Blacks were far from their best, but Hansen tells Jason Pine from\u00a0Newstalk ZB\u2019s Weekend Sport\u00a0radio show that they were also impressed with what the French brought to the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the feeling from the group was, we lacked a little bit of cohesion out there at times that probably didn\u2019t allow us to find the game that we wanted to against the French,\u201d Hansen tells Piney.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe French did a really good job adapting their game, definitely defensively around it. We\u2019ll probably feel watching that game again, we didn\u2019t quite recognise some opportunities that were in front of us around that game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hansen, on the other hand, was happy to see some of the skills on show from their young players, who may not have had that much experience at Test level.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking all that away from being a grumpy old coach and being a positive coach, I\u2019ll swing that around now, some fantastic displays from some young men put under a lot of pressure in a Test match moment, the response from them was so encouraging.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally good for us as a group to take some learnings from a performance that will need to be better moving into Argentina. So overall, there\u2019s a lot that we can take out of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the All Blacks having to make a late change just before kickoff with Luke Jacobson<\/a> pulling out due to a quad injury, Hansen felt like they adjusted well and were ready for a moment like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe focus on preparation and everyone being ready, and if that moment comes, you need to be ready, and last night was an example of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristian Lio-Willie obviously onto the bench, Du\u2019Plessis did a fantastic job during the warm-up when Luke unfortunately took a knock to the leg, and we felt he wasn\u2019t able to start, therefore not able to finish the Test.<\/p>\n

\u201cDupes did a great job, 80 minutes, went to eight, and they manoeuvred really quickly with the group. So the process of preparing through the week again was highlighted last night, and the need for it.\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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The All Blacks were held up on multiple occasions on Saturday in Hamilton, something Hansen admits he could\u2019ve set them up better for in the week, as the opportunities were there to be taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cDifferent body position, understanding where the space was and understanding how we can work as individuals or doubles. It was an area of the game that last 10 meters for us, we just didn\u2019t get it right as well as we should have last night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe space was across the field, and it\u2019s not always trying to run over the top of people, so we\u2019ll definitely have some good learnings there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a coach, I thought I needed to prepare them better than what they played around that area of the game, so definitely, a lot of things around body height, where we were on the field, the ability to move to the space and even use our individuals a wee bit differently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the July series against France is over, All Blacks assistant coach Scott Hansen won\u2019t be resting on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-9711","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\/9711","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=9711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}