'A world of good': Steve Hansen's reaction to the All Blacks historic loss
Former All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen says that New Zealand will come out ‘sharper’ in two weeks’ time after the Twickenham let down against South Africa.
The 2015 World Cup-winner believed that only good will come from the 28-point defeat which was the largest in All Black history.
It was hooker Dane Coles’ post-match comments that got Hansen’s attention, as the Hurricane hinted that the preparation wasn’t serious enough for the task at hand.
“The message he will be giving is exactly what you just said, let’s look at what we’ve done well here, let’s put some meaning around the performance,” Hansen told Sky Sport NZ’s The Breakdown.
“One of things, funnily enough I heard Colesy say, that they may have been a bit ahead of themselves.
“So they’ll talk about their mindset and their preparation, how genuine was it going into that week and then everyone will come out of the other side bitter, a little sharper.
“They’ll roll into this week’s training with a bit more energy and enthusiasm and the week following the World Cup starts.”
Hansen said perspective was needed in evaluating where both sides are currently at and what they need to accomplish over the month of September.
The All Blacks weren’t yet World Cup ready after their first-choice team last played over a month ago, while the Springboks are preparing themselves for the hard slog in the ‘pool of death’.
“We’ve got to put the performance against the Boks into perspective, you’ve got one team that’s preparing for the pool of death,” Hansen said.
“They are right up for it, they need to be right to play, the best they can play from day one in the tournament.
“They played a week ago against Wales, our guys I think we had seven or eight that hadn’t played for four weeks.
“You know four weeks is a long time.”
Despite the ill-discipline that plagued the All Blacks and cost them a player for 50 minutes, Hansen believed the big takeaway for the team was the lack of timing.
With two weeks in camp together the All Blacks will have the opportunity to improve on the miscues.
“If you look at the performance, the big thing that was missing was timing, from the engagement at scrum time, to everything we did,” he said.
“The lineouts were too early, we were just off the pace.
“When you play an opposition that are primed and ready and as good as South Africa are, you are going to get a punch on the nose.
“I think it will do them a world of good and they will bounce back fairly quickly. Personally, they’ll be hurt as any All Black team is when they lose.
“There is lots of benefits, they will improve.”
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1 Go to comments“While Sotutu should start at No.8 for the All Blacks against England, but it’s only in that arena that he can prove just how good he really is.” And that my friends is where simply hasnt shone despite multiple opportunities. Even in this performance you can see what did him in in the test arena..he almost always still runs at the opposition almost ramrod upright making him easier to stop than it should be.
1 Go to commentsShould have been 0-0 and a message from SR CEO to both teams - “don’t worry about turning up next year”.
3 Go to commentsGreat work Owen Franks. A great of this team, scoring his first try for the Crusaders since 2010.He was beaming, justifiably. A fine win, he and the rest did the job up front.
1 Go to commentsDanny Care. Lang in die tand.
1 Go to commentsBig empty stadium does nothing for atmosphere but munster are playing well with solid performance
1 Go to commentsYes, Fiji can win the World Cup! With that belief plus their christian faith🙏 and hard work it is achievable. Great article. Ian Duncan Fiji resident 1981-84
2 Go to commentsInteresting comments about Touch. England’s hosting the Touch World Cup this year and the numbers have exploded since their last World Cup in 2019, something like 70% more teams and 40 nations taking part. And England Touch have made a big thing about how many universities are in their BUCS University Touch Championship as well as Sport England membership. Can only see this growing even more domestically as more people become aware of it
10 Go to comments“Cortez Ratima is light years ahead of anyone on current form, while TJ Perenara has also skyrocketed into contention following the unfortunate injury to the talented Cam Roigard.” At last some sanity. Hitherto so many pundits have been wittering on about Finlay Christie to the point one wondered if they were observing a FC in a parallel universe where the FC they saw wasnt just the mediocre Shayne Philpott project of Fosters hapless AB reign in the real world. Ratima, Perenara and Fakatava are the ONLY logical 9s for Razor now Roigard is crocked.
3 Go to commentsThis game was just as painful as the Hurricanes game. It was real fork-in-the-eye stuff.
3 Go to commentsNow if they could just fire the Crusaders ground PA guy who likes to play his dance music and just loves the sound of his own voice the entire game, even when play is going on. And I thought their brass band thing of a few years ago was bad.
5 Go to commentsUnfortunately when you lose by far the two form players this season in Roigard and Aumua, you're left replacing two game changing Tanks with a couple of pea-shooters. Which is also about the speed of TJs pass.
4 Go to commentsBit rich coming from the guy with zero loyalty to anyone or any team, including happily taking a players place in a league world cup squad because well, SBW wanted to play in it and thus an already named player got told he was no longer going. And airing stuff like this, which may or may not be true, doesn't exactly say you're a stand up guy either SBW. Just looking to keep his name in lights as usual.
38 Go to commentsTamati Tua. …the Taniwha NPC midfielder. Ollie Sapsford, Hawkes Bay NPC midfielder…doing well
4 Go to commentsFiji deserve to be in the rugby championship, fans love seeing the Fijian national team play, the Fijian Drua is a wonderful idea but the players can still be stolen to play for NZ and AUS…
2 Go to commentsThe first concern for this afternoon are wheather forecast…
1 Go to commentsWhy cant I watch Rugby games please?
1 Go to commentsBeautiful shot from Finau, end of story. Gutted for Shaun Stevenson though.
4 Go to commentsThe Chiefs definitely didn’t win ugly. They had the superior scrum, a dominant lineout, and their defence was excellent once the Waratahs scored their two tries (thanks to some lucky refereeing calls mind you). They put pressure on the Waratahs lineout throughout the game, and the mind boggles as to why the referee did not award a yellow card or a penalty try against the Waratahs for repeated scrum infringements on their own try line before Narawa’s first try. And the Chiefs were slick with their passing and running angles on attack. It was a dominant performance all round, even with many questionable refereeing decisions.
1 Go to commentsWasnt late. Ref 2 assistants andTMO all saw it so who are you to say it was?
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