{"id":96752,"date":"2025-10-23T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96752\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:37:08","slug":"justin-marshalls-x-rated-warning-to-risk-averse-all-blacks-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96752\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Marshall&#8217;s X-rated warning to risk-averse All Blacks coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Marshall insists that it is vital the All Blacks give youngsters more of a chance in the side, otherwise it will cost them later down the line.<\/p>\n<p>There is a perception that Scott Robertson is a conservative selector and it is a view that the New Zealand legend appears to agree with.<\/p>\n<p>Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/new-zealand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> boss has handed out plenty of debuts this year, only Fabian Holland has been a consistent presence in the 23 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Parker and Leroy Carter are two others that have begun to make their presence felt in the team, but Marshall thinks that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tag\/scott-robertson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robertson<\/a> can still be bolder.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old is not particularly thinking about the Rugby World Cup either and feels that they could be caught out in South Africa during Rugby\u2019s Greatest Rivalry tour next year.<\/p>\n<p>All Blacks \u2018future planning\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019ve got to start thinking about. I bang the drum, and I won\u2019t ever stop banging it, about the way that I feel about my rugby in terms of the All Blacks and the way that in my mind they have to win every Test in front of them,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tag\/justin-marshall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall<\/a> told Sport Nation\u2019s The Rugby Run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I say future planning, future planning is not for a World Cup because a World Cup isn\u2019t everything for me as a former All Black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Grand Slam is amazing. The All Blacks haven\u2019t been on a Grand Slam tour since 2005 and before that I think it was 1978 \u2013 they don\u2019t happen very often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tour to South Africa, the last time we did that was in 1996, so those things are equally important, but we\u2019ve got to have the cattle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we\u2019ve not pulled the trigger on a couple of players knowing what we\u2019re going to face in South Africa next year with midweek games, as well as Test matches. We\u2019re going to need depth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/all-blacks-justin-marshalls-verdict-on-flawless-rising-star-who-could-solve-scott-robertsons-big-issue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks: Justin Marshall\u2019s verdict on \u2018flawless\u2019 rising star who could solve Scott Robertson\u2019s big issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tevita Mafileo is the only uncapped player in the All Blacks squad for the northern hemisphere tour, while they have also named a second-string All Blacks XV side.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamie Joseph-led outfit will face the Barbarians, England A and Uruguay in November, but the group surprisingly does not contain Otago\u2019s rising star Dylan Pledger.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall believes that Pledger is the type of player the All Blacks should be looking at and that age or inexperience should not count against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s about talent\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to find out about players. When I got thrown into the All Blacks, I was only 21. Andrew Mehrtens, Jonah Lomu, Christian Cullen, these guys were all green. They were great players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t know what we were going to be like as All Blacks but our coaches were ballsy enough to throw us in the environment and we all turned out okay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t seem to want to take that risk. If I hear, \u2018ah no, he\u2019s too young\u2019, honestly I will lose my s*** because that\u2019s not what it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about talent. When we talk about Dylan Pledger, he\u2019s been in the system, so why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/stephen-donald-picks-the-all-blacks-star-that-will-announce-himself-to-the-world-during-northern-tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Donald picks out the All Blacks star that will \u2018announce himself to the world\u2019 during northern tour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Marshall insists that it is vital the All Blacks give youngsters more of a chance in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1463,1464,17731,111,43,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-96752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-justin-marshall","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96752","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=96752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}