{"id":456725,"date":"2026-03-04T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:16:07","slug":"former-wallabies-coach-rennie-takes-all-blacks-job-and-targets-world-cup-glory-new-zealand-rugby-union-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456725\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wallabies coach Rennie takes All Blacks job and targets World Cup glory | New Zealand rugby union team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dave Rennie has been named the new coach of the All Blacks and charged with taking New Zealand to a fourth World Cup triumph in Australia next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 62-year-old former Wallabies coach beat out Jamie Joseph for one of the biggest jobs in world rugby after an extensive recruitment process that started when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jan\/15\/all-blacks-scott-robertson-departs-coach\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Robertson stepped down in mid January<\/a> after a critical review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cCoaching the All Blacks is an incredible honour. I\u2019m extremely proud to have been entrusted with this role and understand the expectations that come with it,\u201d Rennie said in a New Zealand Rugby statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI\u2019m really clear on the way I want the All Blacks to play and I look forward to working with the players, management team, and the rugby community. We have a lot of talent here and we will be working extremely hard to make the country proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Rennie has been named the new coach of the All Blacks and charged with taking New Zealand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456725","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\/456725","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=456725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}