{"id":436939,"date":"2026-05-20T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436939\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:24:10","slug":"dave-rennie-not-interested-in-flash-all-blacks-as-mindset-shift-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436939\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rennie not interested in ‘flash’ All Blacks as ‘mindset’ shift revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dave Rennie insists that he will not pick players who do a \u201cfew flash things\u201d with the All Blacks boss demanding that the whole 23 put in the work.<\/p>\n

With the Nations Championship just a month-and-a-half away, the new head coach will be naming his squad relatively soon.<\/p>\n

Rennie states that he has \u201calready picked the 34\u201d who will, injury-depending, prepare for the upcoming mid-year series and he is clear in his mind about what he wants from those individuals.<\/p>\n

Rennie\u2019s favoured trait<\/p>\n

\u201cA big thing for me is going to be about work ethic. When guys do a few flash things, commentators and various people get excited by it, but we\u2019re looking for repeat efforts and getting some big shifts out of players,\u201d he told Sky Sports NZ.<\/p>\n

Rennie<\/a> also needs to devise a more effective game plan than the one employed by his predecessor, Scott Robertson, who was criticised for taking a more conservative approach.<\/p>\n

The former Wallabies, Chiefs and Glasgow Warriors boss is regarded as having an attacking style with his teams particularly renowned for being incredibly potent on transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had a mindset around counter-attack and turnover attack, and a massive amount of your possession now comes from the ball kicked to you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess when I was in Scotland in particular we got a lot of ball kicked, so I established a bit of a structure around treating counter-attack as a set-piece \u2013 your biggest source.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Although Robertson coached a Crusaders outfit that were effective on counter-attack, that wasn\u2019t repeated when he became the All Blacks<\/a> boss.<\/p>\n

They struggled off to create turnover ball and that is something Rennie is looking to correct when his tenure truly begins against France in July.<\/p>\n

All Blacks counter-attack struggles<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, I think the All Blacks scored three tries from counter-attack and three from turnover attack, so we want to change the mindset around that and have some accountability around that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Positivity is also something Rennie is looking to bring. While Robertson ended with a 74 per cent win percentage, which was better than his predecessor Ian Foster, there was constant negativity over how the All Blacks were playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s [about] playing with a bit of optimism. You\u2019ve got to have a quality skill set for that and you\u2019re going to have to be really well conditioned,\u201d Rennie added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll certainly coach with optimism and expect the players to embrace that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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