{"id":422913,"date":"2026-05-11T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/422913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:23:11","slug":"sir-graham-henry-appointed-as-all-blacks-selector-by-dave-rennie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/422913\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Graham Henry appointed as All Blacks selector by Dave Rennie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Rennie said he was excited to have Henry as a selector and believes he will be a good fit for the team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019ve had a number of chats with him even prior to applying for the job and just to get our head around the legacy and all the work he did around leadership, what he found, what he learned in his time as the All Black coach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe talked about the impact that Sir Brian Lochore had when he was coaching the All Blacks as a selector. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe watches a lot of rugby, he\u2019s got pretty strong opinions on players and so on. The conversations we\u2019ve had have been brilliant.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Rennie said he plans to catch up with Henry on Wednesday, and he already has a shortlist of 60 players he\u2019s keen to discuss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe\u2019s an avid watcher of the game and that\u2019s important for us. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that with his eye, he may see something a little bit different to us, which will help get the right people in the squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Dave Rennie has appointed Sir Graham Henry as an All Blacks selector. NZ Herald photo by Michael Craig.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Dave Rennie has appointed Sir Graham Henry as an All Blacks selector. NZ Herald photo by Michael Craig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Rennie has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby\/all-blacks\/all-blacks-assistants-dave-rennie-names-his-all-blacks-coaching-group\/D7ZYJGZZR5HQJHWR42XBNDXQ4E\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby\/all-blacks\/all-blacks-assistants-dave-rennie-names-his-all-blacks-coaching-group\/D7ZYJGZZR5HQJHWR42XBNDXQ4E\/\">overhauled the assistant coaching line-up<\/a> with only Jason Ryan surviving the axe from the Robertson regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Neil Barnes will serve as Rennie\u2019s right-hand man, with Tana Umaga (defence), Mike Blair (attack) and Ryan (forwards) also part of the coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">The first All Blacks test of the Rennie era takes place on July 4 against France in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">More to come<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rennie said he was excited to have Henry as a selector and believes he will be a good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5263,696,17623,806,8136,3595,1320,9635,82300,18361,6209,111,139,69,138234,13382,59681,8485,213,1361],"class_list":{"0":"post-422913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-all","9":"tag-announced","10":"tag-appointed","11":"tag-as","12":"tag-blacks","13":"tag-by","14":"tag-coach","15":"tag-dave","16":"tag-fold","17":"tag-graham","18":"tag-henry","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-rennie","23":"tag-returning","24":"tag-selector","25":"tag-sir","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-that"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422913","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=422913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}