{"id":300197,"date":"2026-02-24T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:22:09","slug":"scott-robertson-named-barbarians-coach-in-first-role-since-all-blacks-axing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300197\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Robertson named Barbarians coach in first role since All Blacks axing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scott<\/p>\n

\nScott Robertson.
\nPhoto: \u00a9INPHO\/Ken Sutton\n<\/p>\n

Scott Robertson will get his shot at redemption against the Springboks.<\/p>\n

However, it won’t come as All Blacks coach.<\/p>\n

Robertson has been named as one of four coaches to lead the Barbarians in their clash against the world champions in June.<\/p>\n

It will be ‘Razor’s’ first assignment since he was sensationally axed as All Blacks coach<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

Robertson is no stranger to the Barbarians environment, having coached the side on four previous occasions – against New Zealand and Tonga in 2017, an All Blacks XV in 2022, and Wales in 2023.<\/p>\n

“The Barbarians brings the rugby world together, so it’s special to be a part of it and to honour the jersey,” Robertson said.<\/p>\n

The side has assembled a quality coaching quartet featuring Robertson, Los Pumas head coach Felipe Contepomi, Racing 92 head coach Patrice Collazo and Argentina assistant coach Kenny Lynn.<\/p>\n

The Barbarians have faced South Africa nine times since their first meeting in 1952, and Springbok head coach Rassie Erasmus welcomed the return of the famous invitational side.<\/p>\n

“It’s always exciting to face the BaaBaas, and we are looking forward to hosting them in South Africa. This is a new season with two new exciting competitions, so the sooner we get into a test match mindset, the better.”<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Robertson. Photo: \u00a9INPHO\/Ken Sutton Scott Robertson will get his shot at redemption against the Springboks. However, it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-300197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300197","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=300197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}