{"id":465838,"date":"2026-06-07T20:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465838\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:07:09","slug":"tony-brown-to-join-all-blacks-coaching-staff-after-2027-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465838\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Brown to join All Blacks coaching staff after 2027 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

NZR CEO Steve Lancaster said Brown was \u2018world-class\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cTony is a world-class coach who is highly regarded and consistently sought after by head coaches and teams around the world,\u201d Lancaster said .<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know Tony is available after the 2027 Rugby World Cup and he\u2019s made it clear he would love to be part of the All Blacks. This decision is simple, it\u2019s about ensuring the best coaches return to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s for the All Blacks head coach to shape the structure and portfolios of their coaching team and we have every confidence that Tony is a high-quality addition when he joins in 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Rennie named his coaching staff in March<\/a>, he retained just one coach from Scott Robertson\u2019s coaching team \u2013 with Jason Ryan (forwards coach) remaining in his role, while Neil Barnes (senior assistant coach), Scotsman Mike Blair (attack coach) and Tana Umaga (defence coach) joined his team.<\/p>\n

The decision to appoint Brown was led by incoming NZR high performance director Don Tricker, with Rennie supportive of the appointment, Lancaster said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of Don\u2019s roles is to lead the appointments of our national team coaches. As part of that we have agreed with Dave we will discuss the process for the All Blacks head coach role no later than the conclusion of the 2027 Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor now, Dave and his coaching team are absolutely focused on what\u2019s in front of them and we look forward to challenging ourselves against Tony and the Springboks in the coming months,\u201d Lancaster added.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Newstalk ZB\u2019s Mike Hosking Breakfast in January, Brown revealed he had talks to join Scott Robertson\u2019s All Blacks coaching team last year<\/a> but remained committed to his role in South Africa. At the time he labelled Robertson\u2019s departure as All Blacks coach \u201cbizarre\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cPretty bizarre. You know, the timing around what\u2019s happened and no sort of plan going forward and my name getting thrown in there plenty, but no one\u2019s really talked to me, so I\u2019ve always just been going back to South Africa to finish my contract,\u201d Brown said at the time.<\/p>\n

Brown said if he wasn\u2019t committed to his Springboks role he would have been keen to apply for the All Blacks job \u2013 which eventually went to Rennie. <\/p>\n

\u2018Genuinely delighted for him\u2019<\/p>\n

Springboks head coach Rassie Erasmus said Brown has made a huge difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cTony has made a remarkable difference, both on and off the field, and he has always been upfront with us about wanting to be closer to his family and about the All Blacks holding a special place in his heart, and we are genuinely delighted for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made the mistake in the past of negotiating contracts in a RWC year, and this clarity will allow us all to go full steam ahead with our preparations for this and next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZR CEO Steve Lancaster said Brown was \u2018world-class\u2019. \u201cTony is a world-class coach who is highly regarded and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18516,74,5263,2731,8136,6256,1320,49722,10542,19755,111,139,1536,69,6327,213,8137,1516,61,11554,698,1533,377,1530],"class_list":["post-465838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-18516","tag-after","tag-all","tag-assistant","tag-blacks","tag-brown","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-cup","tag-join","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-springboks","tag-staff","tag-to","tag-tony","tag-until","tag-will","tag-world","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465838","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=465838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}