{"id":446445,"date":"2026-05-26T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:34:13","slug":"former-abs-assistant-to-lead-crusaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446445\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ABs assistant to lead Crusaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hansen.jpg\" width=\"511\" height=\"342\" alt=\"Scott Hansen. Photo: Getty Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Scott Hansen. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Former All Blacks assistant coach Scott Hansen has been reportedly appointed to lead the Crusaders next season.<\/p>\n<p>The NZ\u00a0Herald has reported it\u00a0understands Hansen will take over as Crusaders coach after current head coach Rob Penney concludes his three-year tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders won four of 14 games in Penney&#8217;s first season at the helm but he then guided them to their 15th\u00a0Super Rugby championship last year.<\/p>\n<p>Penney signed a one-year extension following that success but will step aside at the end of the season, the Herald reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen left the All Blacks earlier this year after Scott Robertson was ousted.<\/p>\n<p>-Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Hansen. Photo: Getty Images Former All Blacks assistant coach Scott Hansen has been reportedly appointed to lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-446445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446445","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=446445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}