Steve Hansen

“I haven't seen them save much… Ian Foster […] He's a very good coach,” said Hansen, who won early 2020 after Foster became his assistant.

“He must not be happy with the way things have gone, but I don’t think the problem is internal to the team. […] “He’s a very good player and he’ll be back,” Steve Hansen said. “I remember in 2007 Richie McCaw was the worst captain we had.

Ex-All Blacks coach Steve Hansen comes out firing in an interview with Today FM's Tova O'Brien. New Zealand Rugby will not publicly respond to Sir Steve ...

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Here are the latest rugby headlines on Thursday, July 28. Steve Hansen lays into New Zealand bosses. Former Wales and All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen has ...

I was very blessed to play rugby around the globe and represent my country at a World Cup. Most of all, I thank God for giving me the opportunity to express my talents for so long." It means we will lose George for the first half of the season, but we do have Rob du Preez fit, which wasn’t the case at the start of last season.” “I would like to thank every single team member, club, doctor, physio, coach and my family for all the support over the last 13 years of my rugby career. “The time has come for me to call it a day,” he said in a farewell post on social media. Player welfare is of paramount importance to the IRFU and we are constantly reviewing safety protocols for all players. No proceedings have been served upon the IRFU to date."

Hansen slammed the country's media for their treatment of under fire coach Ian Foster before launching a scathing attack on those who run the game.

"I remember in 2007, Richie McCaw was the worst captain we had ever had. There are bigger issues than that," Hansen said. "There isn't many of their tight five who wouldn't make the All Blacks at the moment." Hansen insists the under-fire Foster is a "very good coach". "They have come out and aired all their dirty washing in the front part of the property, rather than out the back." Former All Blacks boss Sir Steve Hansen slammed New Zealand Rugby bosses on Thursday for "not doing their job" and failing to publicly back under-pressure coach Ian Foster.

The All Blacks find themselves in a very unfamiliar position at the moment. Having been the dominant force in world rugby for over a decade, their recent ...

We started off with the Under-20s in 2008, we won the first four and we won in ’15 and ’17. Since then we’ve finished seventh and fourth and England and France have dominated the tournaments. However, it is their coaching ticket that has received the majority of the criticism. There have been a lot of reviews of [ex-New Zealand women coach] Glenn Moore and Ian Foster on their coaching ability recently but when was the last time the NZ Rugby Union did a review on itself? Many are placing the blame for their recent issues at his feet. The All Blacks find themselves in a very unfamiliar position at the moment. They expect to be the best, meaning a series loss at home to Ireland was never going to go down well.

Ex-All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has blasted New Zealand Rugby for "not doing their job" and for not publicly backing his successor, Ian Foster.

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Ex-All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has blasted New Zealand Rugby for "not doing their job" and for not publicly backing his successor, Ian Foster.

“His time will come and then we’ll see if he’s ready or not,” he added. He’s too good a player not to come right. He’s a very good coach,” said Hansen. Hansen said Robertson, who has won six Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders, is “a wonderful coach” who was “positioning himself and good on him”. He’ll come right. “The relationship between the board and the exec with the players at the moment is probably the worst it’s ever been,” Hansen told Today FM.

Steve Hansen, the former New Zealand head coach, has torn into the powers-that-be at the All Blacks and has accused them of not doing their job properly.

He’s too good a player not to come right. He’s a very good coach. 'I don’t think they’re doing their job right.

Former All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen has accused New Zealand Rugby of not "doing their job right" amid the national team's struggles.

Kirky [All Blacks great Ian Kirkpatrick] was in the paper saying they felt like they weren’t listened to. Let’s start there, to get that right. I don’t think they [NZR] are doing their job right at the moment.

Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has launched a scathing attack on New Zealand Rugby, claiming the federation had presided over a series of ...

"We have to believe in him, we have to support him and he'll come right," said Hansen of Cane. "The relationship between the board and the executive with the players is probably the worst itG��s ever been," he said. Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has launched a scathing attack on New Zealand Rugby, claiming the federation had presided over a series of high-performance failures and its relationship with players had reached a nadir.