New Zealand Rugby confirms All Black coaching appointment process

Oh dear what a circus!! We now see what a shambles NZR is creating for itself. Their reputation is shot and it would seem that being head coach of an AB side in disarray with a world cup fast approaching is not attractive any more to any coach with aspirations of longevity. No sinecure is it??

So then take your pick from Mitchell, Cotter, Rennie & Joseph, assuming Schmidt isn’t interested.

Personally, this feels like it’s Mitchell or Cotter with Jamie Joseph as the assistant.

If AB’s want to win the next World Cup, they need to employ Rassie as coach

“NZR will invite New Zealand coaches with international head coaching experience to apply.“

The problem is that nations around the world no longer consider NZ coaches as good enough to appoint as head coaches. Looking back over the past few years there have been a handful of coaches fired for poor performance. You looking at Pivac, Rennie, Crowley, Gatland and now Robertson. Moore who also coached their women’s team was fired too. And these are the examples only since 2022.

Now if you look deeper there is only one NZ coach, coaching a NH club team in Europe, and this shows exactly what the North thinks of NZ coaches. They are not good enough. Rather what we are seeing is that NZ coaches are desperate to suck up rugby IP from the best coaches in the world by applying for assistant roles so that they learn on the job at a lower level of coaching. Maybe this qualifies as international experience in Kirk’s mind.

Haha what a joke, just pick some Aucklander or Chief and watch the ABS turn completely into the Rugby version of the Warriors.

David Kirk: We’ll cast the net wide

Requirements: Must be Kiwi, must have international experience

Net cast over Joseph, Rennie and Cotter.

Why the show, they know who they want, just throw some cash at them and be done with it.

What possible qualifications does a recently retired player, who still likely has friends amongst the senior leadership group, have in the selection of a head coach?

It’s bad enough that Mealamu, who has zero experience coaching at any level of pro rugby, is on the selection panel.

The inmates (NZRPA) are officially running the asylum.

“We’ll provide further updates as soon as we can.”

Reads like a train wreck.

David Kirk, Don Tricker, and Keven Mealamu, who conducted the end-of-year review that resulted in Robertson leaving his role, will all be involved in the new process… and a recently retired All Black.

Ardie Savea?

As a kiwi I’d like to see Shaun Edward’s bring his no nonsense style, he’s got plenty of experience, maybe not as head coach but his international credentials are excellent and his influence on the French team is noticeable. We need to bring some mongrel back into our game and I only see Kirifi with that kind of attitude at the moment .