Ian Foster

All Black coach Ian Foster will take the All Blacks through to the Rugby World Cup, the NZ Rugby Board has announced after a review of performance.

we will take any learnings with us, we know we need to hold ourselves to the same standards as we do our teams in black." I think this is gonna make the whole thing enable us to coach at a deeper level so I'm really delighted." "We can't wait to get going. "We also know you've got to be in the here and now and our goal is to work on performance and improvement." Foster said it was a privilege to be in the job and it was never something he took for granted. "Have we got everything right?

Current All Blacks selector and former Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt has also been given a role in the coaching team.

But I want to reassure people that we're not just sitting there justifying that, we're actually saying 'okay what have we learnt from that'." "The first five Tests this year were always going to be immensely tough. "It's not a job you go into and think 'wow I've got my next three to four years sorted'.

However, Foster's job had come under scrutiny following a run of five defeats from their last seven games, and NZR boss Mark Robinson refused to back Foster ...

we will take any learnings with us, we know we need to hold ourselves to the same standards as we do our teams in black." "We can't wait to get going. "We also know you've got to be in the here and now and our goal is to work on performance and improvement." Foster said it was a privilege to be in the job and it was never something he took for granted. "Have we got everything right? Performance was an ongoing conversation and it was agreed with Foster at the beginning of the year to do a thorough debrief at this time, Mitchell said.

The embattled head coach may have saved his job with a stunning reversal of form against South Africa.

Ian Foster has survived as All Blacks head coach, with the NZ Rugby board hailing the team's "magnificent" weekend win in South Africa.

"There's no doubt there was a void there for the team ... "He loved his time with Leon and the Blues and he got a taste for it ... He compliments the group a lot." I'd rather it wasn't there but we live in the real world and we're under pressure to perform. but you've got to be in the here and now ... I'm a key catalyst for that and I'm delighted to be here."

All Blacks coach Ian Foster has kept his job, after guiding the national side to victory over world champions South Africa at their Johannesburg fortress on ...

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So there is a vacuum of leadership and their team is stepping up and their coach has stepped up.” Both of those coaches who were with the team at that time then went on to win World Cups. “They’re being caught in the firestorm that is the rugby media in New Zealand, instead of standing up to them like the leadership did in 2007. The fact that they didn’t is incompetent.” Right now they’re not,” he said on Irish sports show Off The Ball. “At this point the main priority is to get everyone home. Ultimately, Foster parted ways with two of his assistants, including senior coach John Plumtree, and brought in Scott Robertson’s right-hand man at the Crusaders Jason Ryan. And here’s the thing, their team is. “Your CEO and your board are the leaders of your organisation, and they have to show leadership. [Critical Wallabies selection calls may make or break Rennie. “I’ll be given feedback, no doubt, but my expectations are that I’m the All Blacks head coach and later in the week I’ll be going to Christchurch and assembling the team until I’m told different.” “Whether any of the fans think it would be Foster or it should be Scott Robertson, the fact of the matter remains that Foster has been left out to dry by Robinson and I don’t think that’s good enough.

Ian Foster has survived his performance review and will coach the All Blacks through to next year's World Cup.

“I just want to remind people it’s a privilege to be in this job ... “This has been privately and publicly validated by our players and in various conversations within our high performance team.” NZR board chair Stewart Mitchell said the win was “magnificent” before declaring Foster’s position safe.

Had the All Blacks not come back after losing the lead at Ellis Park, Foster staying as head coach would have been untenable, writes Patrick McKendry.

In some cases it would have appeared like they were defending vested interests. After all the ups and many downs of Ian Foster’s reign, it came down to 12 minutes. Because had David Havili not stretched out his right arm to put the ball on the line for the All Blacks to re-take the lead and Scott Barrett not sealed it with a try from close range at the death after the Boks’ pack was effectively harassed into submission, it would have been untenable for Foster to stay.

The New Zealand Rugby (NZR) Board has given their full support behind Ian Foster as All Blacks head coach.

"[The board] have unanimously agreed they have absolute confidence that Ian and this coaching group are the right people to lead the All Blacks through until the World Cup. The All Blacks assemble in Christchurch on Sunday ahead of next weekend's Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship clash with Argentina at Orangetheory Stadium. "We flagged at the start of this year that his role was to join us after the Irish series as an independent selector to replace Grant Fox and in addition he was going to do some opposition analysis work and work alongside myself in the strategy area.

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) on Wednesday endorsed Ian Foster as the right man to coach the All Blacks through to next year's World Cup but said he would have ...

But it's not through a lack of commitment to want the best for the team." He survived an NZR review after the 2-1 defeat in the home series against Ireland in July, with his former assistant coaches John Plumtree and Brad Mooar axed instead. We are backing (the staff) through to the World Cup."

Right decision or wrong decision, NZ Rugby will be hoping a nation can become believers.

The evidence to make coaching changes at the end of last year was irrefutable and yet it was ignored. It also took an inordinately long time for Samisoni Taukei'aho to be promoted to start at hooker. But so too does it have to be remembered that it was just one win – and just the second in the last seven tests - and while a nation may indeed want to become believers and get behind the team more than they have, they will need something stronger than the unanimous endorsement of the board to be convinced they are looking at an All Blacks side that can win next year's World Cup. One area the All Blacks have struggled to keep pace with the rest of the world is prop, and the Irish series was crying out for an injection of new blood in the front row – and for the likes of Ethan de Groot, Fletcher Newell and maybe even Tamaiti Williams to be included. The fact that Schmidt has now been persuaded to take on the role of attack coach, travel with the team and be on the training ground, hands-on and contributing, would have been a critical factor in persuading the NZR board that the rejigged coaching set-up is one with which they can have confidence. A decision at last, a public show of support that looked like it may never come and to some degree an element of certainty that he'll be head coach of the All Blacks through to the next World Cup.

Is Joe Schmidt now flying the plane, asks one, while others claim NZR's "bold decision" leaves them "open to further embarrassment".

“All the while, it will be fascinating to see if another nation attempts to lure Scott Robertson out of his contract and into their set-up. A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. “Defeats to Argentina and Australia are unthinkable at this stage but, given their form under the 57-year-old, they would not be surprising. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. “Eight wins must be the target. If quality local sport journalism is important to you, become a Stuff supporter today. Robertson has outlined his desire to win the World Cup with ‘two different countries’.” “Changing the head coach is not ideal but in 2018 South Africa showed that making the brave call can reap its rewards. But by taking out ‘through until the World Cup’, they would have supported their man without pinning themselves to a timescale. Harsher critics would have axed him even sooner”. “Ireland and France will both be confident of beating a Foster-coached team in the World Cup, as will the Springboks if they do meet. [Planet Rugby](https://www.planetrugby.com/opinion-new-zealand-rugby-drop-the-ball-again-with-ian-foster-world-cup-backing/), Colin Newboult was adamant the pressure was still on both Foster and New Zealand Rugby with [ this confirmation of a coaching course through to next year’s World Cup](https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/300663934/recap-ian-foster-to-remain-as-all-blacks-coach-through-to-rugby-world-cup) in France.

The win in Jo'burg, a reasonable dose of player power and the three-year plan to get Joe Schmidt on board were behind a remarkable sporting comeback.

A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. Stuff understands there were tears in the changing room in Johannesburg, from both Foster and new forwards supremo Jason Ryan. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. “It's always been in the plan in some form, but the exact time I didn't really know,” Foster said. And so we've all wanted to roll our sleeves up and fix it. No-one, however, has emerged stronger from the recent turmoil than Foster himself.

Hart believes Foster failed to listen to feedback from players at the end of last year.

I wouldn't underestimate that Joe Schmidt's been a very influential person already in the last three weeks helping in behind the scenes and the fact he's going to step up and become an assistant is very good news for New Zealand Rugby leading into the World Cup." "The introduction of Joe Schmidt on a more direct basis is an outstanding addition to the coaching team. A team cannot perform like they did at Ellis Park last weekend if they are not united and in support of their coach. "They were between a rock and a hard place. They've now come to a conclusion and in my view they've come to a sensible decision. "There needs to be some defence of the New Zealand union here," Hart said.