All Blacks head coach Ian Foster. It’s standard practice for the All Blacks coach to pipe up at about this stage of the season to send a mix of direct and veiled messages to the professional playing base. Foster has found himself in the unprecedented position of heading to the World Cup knowing it will be his last act in the job. But what is true is that New Zealand Rugby’s decision to appoint Scott Robertson as the next All Blacks coach has liberated Foster from some of the conventional thinking which has bound his predecessors. Foster wasn’t making an idle threat when he said that some players need to lift the quality and intensity of their rugby.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 23, 2023 21:18 UTC