{"id":822260,"date":"2026-11-03T00:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822260\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:58:20","slug":"jason-ryan-assesses-fabian-hollands-response-to-all-blacks-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822260\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Ryan assesses Fabian Holland&#8217;s response to All Blacks omission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  Published: 3 hours ago | 2 November 2026 16:49 EST  <br \/> Updated: 3 hours ago | 2 November 2026 16:51 EST  <\/p>\n<p>mens<\/p>\n<p>international<\/p>\n<p>    Fabian Holland is one of a crop of talented locks who would benefit from Retallick&#8217;s mentorship (Photo Joe Allison\/Getty Images) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand\" src=\"https:\/\/eu-cdn.rugbypass.com\/images\/common-svg\/select-arrow.svg\" height=\"6\" width=\"11\"\/>      <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rugbypass.com%2F\" onclick=\"GATracking.sendDataLayerEvent(&#039;preferredsourcegoogle&#039;);\" aria-label=\"Google Prefered Source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793667500_168_google_preferred_source_badge_light.png\" alt=\"Google Prefered Source\" width=\"141\" height=\"44\" class=\"google-source\"\/> <\/a>     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> assistant coach Jason Ryan said the coaching staff saw exactly what they wanted from Dutch-born lock Fabian Holland against the Wallabies in Sydney, a week after being left out of the side\u2019s Eden Park clash.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s All Blacks have arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/edinburgh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh<\/a> following two comprehensive victories over the Wallabies in the Bledisloe Cup, the second of which saw Holland dominate in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>The lock made a game-high 24 tackles, most of which were in the second half, as the All Blacks ran rampant in the first forty minutes at Accor Stadium against their trans-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/tasman-women\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tasman<\/a> rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Holland returned to the starting lineup in the second Test after missing out in place of Josh Lord, who was trusted alongside Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing media from their Edinburgh hotel, Ryan admitted the coaching staff were impressed by Holland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, we did [see what they wanted]. We thought he was outstanding.\u00a0I think he and Scooter both had the most carries and probably the most tackles between them of our tight\u00a0fives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Fabian, like I think I said a few weeks ago,\u00a0he\u2019s had that shoulder injury and a big series in Africa where he\u2019s still getting used to playing after a long time off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s still rehabbing, getting that confidence right. But I know that he\u2019s got a lot of confidence out of that second Bledisloe Cup test, and he\u2019s right where he needs to be heading into this Northern Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The long-time All Blacks assistant coach admitted they may have previously questioned where the next crop of locks would emerge from, but now it seems like one of the strongest positions of depth moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem that long ago that it was Sam Whitelock and\u00a0Brodie Retallick who were\u00a0just there all the time, and Scooter was obviously in the mix too, but now we\u2019ve given some lads a real taste of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we named the Nations Championship team, we could have a look at Jamie over here. We\u2019re pretty impressed with him in South Africa when he came on, but I think the competition is really exciting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all at a great age, all of them, and Scooter\u2019s the experienced one, and they\u2019re all competing really hard, and it\u2019s exciting. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 3 hours ago | 2 November 2026 16:49 EST Updated: 3 hours ago | 2 November 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-822260","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\/822260","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=822260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}