{"id":659359,"date":"2026-06-26T13:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659359\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:23:13","slug":"justin-marshall-continues-to-bang-the-drum-on-all-blacks-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659359\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Marshall continues to ‘bang the drum’ on All Blacks ‘problem’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former All Blacks scrum-half Justin Marshall wants Dave Rennie to give his New Zealand side clarity after they became \u201ca little bit lost\u201d under Scott Robertson.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old has taken the reins from the Crusaders legend, who was sacked in January despite achieving a 74 per cent win rate.<\/p>\n

NZ Rugby were left concerned by the \u2018trajectory\u2019 the All Blacks<\/a> were on with Robertson<\/a> at the helm and duly decided to make a change.<\/p>\n

Rennie\u2019s<\/a> task is to therefore return to the type of attacking game plan which became synonymous with the team over the years.<\/p>\n

Rennie\u2019s \u2018key words\u2019<\/p>\n

Marshall<\/a> was intrigued to see the new boss reference their style of play after naming his squad and hopes it points to a change in their performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I read the media release and Dave Rennie\u2019s comments were that they\u2019ve picked this side for the Nations Championship in relation to the way they want to play \u2013 they were the key words for me,\u201d he said on the GBRANZ podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the thing that interests me the most. I\u2019ve got some areas of the All Blacks that I\u2019ve got concerns about, I\u2019ve got some selections I don\u2019t agree with but the one thing I want to see, which I\u2019ve banged this drum on, is us evolving as a side to play a different style of game that we\u2019ve been persevering with over the last one or two calendar years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s causing us inconsistency and we are a little lost at times in exactly how we want to play \u2013 stuck between a funny kick strategy, where to use and not use the ball and what areas you want to play in or don\u2019t want to play in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s never been a problem for the All Blacks \u2013 to play from anywhere \u2013 and to rather play with the ball than without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Marshall: Why Dave Rennie\u2019s left-field scrum-half call is \u2018not surprising\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Some believe that Rennie should copy the Hurricanes\u2019 game plan after their stunning Super Rugby Pacific campaign.<\/p>\n

While it may not translate to Test level, Marshall believes that the All Blacks can certainly take the positivity the Wellington outfit had in their approach to the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of that comes into the mix with what type of side they pick and the Hurricanes were doing that. The way that they were playing, they weren\u2019t afraid to play from any part of the field,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe slickness in their passing and handling skills pre and post-contact was so impressive. The speed they were playing at, they just weren\u2019t containable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Possible All Blacks \u2018cliques\u2019<\/p>\n

Following their title success, plenty of Hurricanes stars have quite rightly been included in the Nations Championship squad, but that can create another issue according to Marshall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you\u2019ve got to look at is the culture that they create to make sure that there isn\u2019t too many cliques within there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will have their many groups that they operate in and when there\u2019s a lot of one team within a team then others can feel alienated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key thing will be them creating a good culture in the first two weeks, making sure everyone\u2019s inclusive if there is a high number of one team in any squad the All Blacks name. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re on top of that and will be aware of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Kieran Read questions Dave Rennie\u2019s back-row selection as fellow All Blacks legend left \u2018really surprised\u2019 by lack of \u2018firepower\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All Blacks scrum-half Justin Marshall wants Dave Rennie to give his New Zealand side clarity after they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[168226,348,3482,15395,620,50,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-dave-rennie","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-justin-marshall","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659359","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=659359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}