{"id":101648,"date":"2025-10-26T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101648\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:45:13","slug":"ex-all-black-fuels-speculation-of-rift-between-robertsons-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101648\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-All Black fuels speculation of rift between Robertson&#8217;s coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ex-All Black <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/israel-dagg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/israel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a> Dagg has added fuel to speculation that a fall out with assistant coach Scott Hansen is the reason that Jason Holland has departed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> coaching set up.<\/p>\n<p>This week Holland announced his impending departure after the All Blacks end of year tour, becoming the second assistant to leave Scott Robertson\u2019s coaching group after Leon MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Scotty and Izzy Show on Sport Nation NZ, Dagg addressed the messages that pundits were sending in, including speculation that Hansen was behind the departures after the group couldn\u2019t cohesively work together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All Black coach Scott Robertson and his captain Scott Barrett give their views on the \u2018greatest rivalry\u2019 tour of 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>All Black coach Scott Robertson and his captain Scott Barrett give their views on the \u2018greatest rivalry\u2019 tour of 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could be a lot of speculation out there. There\u2019s one message here talking about some rumours that Scott Hansen is the problem with Holland and Leon MacDonald,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat they couldn\u2019t work with him anymore and Holland wanted to leave last year but was convinced to stay for one more year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both MacDonald and Holland gave up head coaching roles at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/blues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/hurricanes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricanes<\/a> respectively to join the All Blacks coaching staff, while Hansen was an assistant under Robertson at the Crusaders.<\/p>\n<p>Former Test fullback Dagg described Hansen as \u201cvery intense\u201d who demands the best of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never been coached by Scotty Hansen, I can\u2019t speak from experience, but having spoken to him a couple of times, he\u2019s very intense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very intense fella, very passionate, has a lot of care but is hard on people and wants to get the very best out of people \u2013 he\u2019s demanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robertson started his tenure with an army of lieutenants on his coaching staff, yet MacDonald was never replaced and it is yet to be seen whether Holland will be.<\/p>\n<p>Dagg added that perhaps there were too many voices in the room with a large backroom staff that led to communication issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext year, what is the key here? There\u2019s a lot of confusion out there, there are so many voices, so would the best thing going forward be to take away that extra voice, allow Scotty Hansen to take a bit more of a role, which he potentially has been already doing, and Tamati Ellison looks after the defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-All Black Israel Dagg has added fuel to speculation that a fall out with assistant coach Scott Hansen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-101648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}