Scott Hansen: How the All Blacks are building for the 2027 World Cup – RugbyPass

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Australian defence is not improving at the same rate as its attack, and Scotland’s lethal midfield axis exposed the flaws.
2024 was anticipated as something of a rebirth for the All Blacks. With New Zealand’s formerly undoubted global dominance eroded through a number of historic losses in the recent World Cup cycles, a new coach with new energy was sought as the remedy.
However, the competitiveness of the global order in its current state offers very little margin for error and introducing new faces to the international arena is not as simple as it once was for World Rugby’s heavyweights. And so, outside of a Californian voyage to face Fiji and a foray to Tokyo to face Japan, new head coach Scott Robertson opted to field his best available men throughout the All Blacks’ 14-Test season.
Were it not for injuries befalling a handful of loose forwards, a couple of locks and the odd back, opportunities for New Zealand’s 2024 Test rookies looked to be few and far between.
Injuries are unfortunately a part of this beautiful game and so a number of opportunities presented themselves, leading to extended stints for the likes of Wallace Sititi and Cortez Ratima, who both established their places in the matchday 23 during The Rugby Championship.
But, the apparent reluctance to field youngsters outside of injury-enforced changes has raised some eyebrows among those hoping for a more dramatic shift in personnel within the environment. Reflecting on the balance of building for future wins and dealing with the opposition at hand throughout 2024, All Blacks attack coach Scott Hansen adopted a broad perspective.
“If you have a quick snapshot of what’s happened this year already around the 12 debutants, bringing in some new exciting players into the All Blacks environment, adding different layers around relationships and growth. I feel we’ve been focussed on doing that daily, weekly, by Test.
“You live live, you learn, you grow. Next thing for sure mate, like anything, like any job, like any environment, you’re going to learn your lessons, you’re going to sit back, adjust to how you can be better.
“I think everyone in this All Black team, both players and team always focussed on that. We understand the true privilege of being in the All Blacks environment. We understand the legacy but also the excitement around this is our time.
“So, definitely lessons from the year and looking forward to going forward with this very, very exciting group.”
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Hansen then narrowed in on the 2027 Rugby World Cup plan specifically.
“You focus on each Test, that’s for sure but in the background you’ve got an understanding of where you’re gonna grow your game and what that looks like, you’ve got to understand where your layers can be, where we need to be at this stage.
“Our biggest challenge is how we evolve, and a massive part of that is selection around getting All Blacks to that level where when you’re heading into World Cups they’ve got experience, whether that be 30, 40, 50, 60 Tests.
“And the experience is not just the Test, the experience is being in a corner during a Test match and learning ‘I didn’t get out of that as well as I should have’. The experience is ‘in that moment, that lineout throw I didn’t quite nail it and/or I did, what’s the experience from that?’
“So we often talk about Tests but I believe is contextual and elemental around what that is during it. Bringing a team up to Europe, conditions in Paris the other night, wow what an environment; Peter Lakai, just a little taste of that.
“So we’ll build all of those experiences as we get into that cycle essentially and that’s what we’re doing currently.”
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Scott Hansen is full of weasel words. Words used in any context to avoid actually saying something. The Abs coaching team seems to specialise in these words.
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They paid his FULL 4 year contract after refusing to pay it. They claimed he had broken his contract and he proved he hadnt. RAs insurers forced RA to pay him his full contract instead of fighting it, as they believed he would have won more. 9mths into his contract they sacked him….He won the next 3.3 years worth of payments. Negotiated by RA insurers and settled on.
How did RA not lose here Graham? What was RAs win?

He needs a better skillset to be a 15. kicking…And deciding when to kick…are vital skills he lacks.

What can he do to make SA refs international standard? SA has no decent domestic so can only get to a tier 3 level in SA. comp.

Almost 19mil Euro!!! Thats almost 33Mil NZ$. How on earth does that happen

Scott Hansen is full of weasel words. Words used in any context to avoid actually saying something. The Abs coaching team seems to specialise in these words.

In regards to so many great Aussie born players playing for foreign countries. It drives us up the wall! But surely it's not a simple fix? I'm sure those in charge didn't realise Sione would be so good when he left? Hansen didn't set the world on fire at the Brums either and Dempsey hadn't hit form for a while. How do we address this!

You've confirmed that all Irish people are tolerant? And we are all laid back?
Oh and Schmidt's record for Ireland was quite impressive. Slightly better than even some randwick based coaches.

Farrell is always classy in his public statements and demeanor.

He did well with Scotland and there is probably more to the story in his tenure with Fozzie. A good move for him and the Saders.

If you read the comments about Schmidt today on the other place by former Irish players about how charming Schmidt was to start with and then became very bitter and nasty, this is not going to end well.
If it was bad with the tolerant Irish it's going to be doubly worse with laid back amiable Australians.

We agree on something.

Stop spreading fake news. It's all out in public for those who can read. It NEVER went to Court.

No, Rugby Australia sacked him, not "tried to sack him". He sued RA to reinstate him & for 14$million. The matter was settled OUT of Court. RA paid out the rest of his contract & Folau stayed sacked.

It has been but it's become over done and highjacked. I think it's time to pare it right back.The Maori team can do it.
TJ holds a few a tiny fraction of the country agrees with, they lost the election, I think gained about 2 percent of the vote.
TJ forced his views into the haka and therefore onto his teammates that don't share his views.
That's why I think it's time for haka anywhere to be stopped where non Maori are expected to go along with TJ and others equally divisive.

That was TJs LAST EVER HAKA….. When was NZR supposed to tell him to not do that? Next match??? Ban him for 1000 matches if you like. Ban him for life… Wont change a thing as he is no longer an AB.
Im more upset with the captain. Barrett admitted he knew what TJ was going to do ( after a reporter pushed him for 15 mins ) so drop him and demote him from the captaincy.

Well you dont know much do you. Not part of the NZ team eh. Mmmm.

You Kiwis??? So Hamish himself???? The overpowering sentiment is that Hamish is a total tosser. Has proven this over many years

Graham what is the point to the article apart from some hack writer who cant write decent articles so always write hatred toward his own nation? Whats the point of bringing Folau into an article now some 4 years since he was a test player? Nothing but click bait, exagerations and lies. A hamish special.

Good article Mike C. One of the best summaries of Eng performance in the autumn series that is out there. The comparison of the Eng defence with British Bulldogs (when was the last time kids ever played this at school..!) was perfect. You also nailed the concern that elite athletes should not require a lengthy period of time for a “hammer” defence to bed in. Serious questions need to be asked of the person coaching said British Bulldogs defence……..

You wernt wrong. He won.
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