{"id":270412,"date":"2025-11-18T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270412\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:24:12","slug":"english-media-taken-back-down-to-earth-by-ex-bok-boss-after-all-blacks-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270412\/","title":{"rendered":"English media taken back down to earth by ex-Bok boss after All Blacks win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former South Africa<\/a> head coach Nick Mallett has accused the English media of \u201cgetting ahead of themselves\u201d following England\u2019s 33-19 victory over the All Blacks<\/a> at Twickenham\u2019s Allianz Stadium recently.<\/p>\n

Steve Borthwick\u2019s side triumphed in London to lift them to third in the World Rugby rankings, with only South Africa and New Zealand<\/a> ahead of them.<\/p>\n

With only Argentina<\/a> to come for England<\/a> in the Quilter Nations Series, they will not have the opportunity to go up against the Springboks this year, with sections of the English media yearning for that match-up.<\/p>\n

Following the victory, TNT Sports commentator and former England international Austin Healey<\/a> said: \u201cI know we\u2019re playing Argentina next week, and I know we played them twice this year, but I so wish we were playing South Africa because you really want to see how good, how far can this England side be pushed? And the only way to push yourself is by beating and playing against the best, and at the minute South Africa are way ahead of everyone else and I\u2019d love to know really where do this England team stand?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mallett, however, interpreted Healey\u2019s comments as saying \u201cwe can\u2019t wait to get hold of South Africa,\u201d to which he has offered a retort, saying \u201cI always know what happens with those English supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2019ve copied South Africa,\u201d the former South Africa and Italy<\/a> coach said to Brenden Nel<\/a>. \u201cThe guys coming off the bench make a massive difference to their finish. In the last 20 minutes, England really got on top of New Zealand. They [New Zealand] can talk about missed opportunities, but I think England would have come back and created problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did say before the game that I thought England would win this one and that\u2019s what happened. I don\u2019t think this New Zealand side is as strong as people think.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the game, they were going off about how brilliant this team was. They\u2019ve gone through dark times, so for them to beat the All Blacks was great for the supporters and for the team, and for the commentators. But, to me, I thought they were saying \u2018we can\u2019t wait to get hold of South Africa\u2019. It just seemed they were getting ahead of themselves. I always know what happens with those English supporters \u2013 you win one game like this and I swear to God they\u2019re going to win the next World Cup without a doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former South Africa head coach Nick Mallett has accused the English media of \u201cgetting ahead of themselves\u201d following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-270412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}