{"id":583069,"date":"2026-08-13T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/583069\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:24:12","slug":"all-blacks-ethan-de-groot-says-south-africa-or-france-sabbatical-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/583069\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks: Ethan de Groot says South Africa or France sabbatical possible"},"content":{"rendered":"
However, while speaking in South Africa, he suggested a sabbatical to the country might be possible eventually.<\/p>\n
Ethan de Groot has praised South Africa’s culture around their scrums. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to just be able to be a one-club man and maybe do a sabbatical if I looked to do another World Cup, maybe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could probably see myself doing a sabbatical over here potentially \u2013 do a full year of scrumming over here, learn a few things into the next World Cup. But to be honest, I got no interest going overseas and I\u2019m really enjoying myself in the All Blacks environment at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The front-rower suggested France could also be an option as both countries suit his style of play.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth Africa, France, either one of those sort of countries, I probably wouldn\u2019t get a lot going out of Japan.<\/p>\n
All Blacks prop Ethan de Groot said he would be happy if he stayed in New Zealand for his entire career. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think Japan want any front-rowers over there as international players, so those are probably my only options as a front-rower.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think just the sheer size of some of these blokes getting around and they\u2019re a scrumming nation, they hang their head on that and it\u2019d just be cool to see how they operate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve heard how they do their weeks, how many scrums they do in a week, they love scrumming, so do I, and it would just be cool to see how they operate and their mindset around a few things would be cool to as a learning side of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the All Blacks\u2019 tour of South Africa, de Groot said he\u2019s been taking in plenty of the culture and enjoying the meat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s on hand, you got biltong and they got these dried sausages things over here, they\u2019re bloody good.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they obviously do a good cut, few T-bones and ribeyes getting around, so they know how to cook their meat over here, I\u2019m enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s also been enjoying some activities he does back in New Zealand, heading to the shooting range with a few teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201cOff field, we got to go shoot some gun, that was pretty cool, got to shoot some AKs and some M16s and if you want to go watch that, it\u2019s on my Instagram,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo moving things \u2013 that might be for me in a couple weeks, we\u2019ll see if I can get out for a hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, while speaking in South Africa, he suggested a sabbatical to the country might be possible eventually. Ethan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1911,58131,180381,9412,66026,214018,156359,28939,2226,1723,85,46,7482,8340,52238,113923,39414,263820,21047,4153,105,98795,10190],"class_list":["post-583069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-all","tag-blacks","tag-career","tag-de","tag-determined","tag-doesnt","tag-ethan","tag-france","tag-groot","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-most","tag-or","tag-possible","tag-prop","tag-rule","tag-sabbatical","tag-says","tag-south","tag-sports","tag-stay","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}