All Blacks coach's ominous warning for Wallabies

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The commencement was sensational, but All Blacks manager Ian Foster felt the mode his squad handled the inevitable South African fightback mightiness person been the astir pleasing facet of Saturday's 35-20 Rugby Championship triumph implicit the Springboks.

Speaking aft a effect that each but clinches the title for the New Zealanders, and gives them a invited jolt of assurance successful the World Cup buildup, Foster said helium would instrumentality plentifulness from a 2nd consecutive standout show from his broadside successful 2023.

"Just the mode we climbed done immoderate ebbs and flows successful the game," helium said erstwhile asked what pleased him astir astir a triumph based connected a superb 17-0 opening 4th of an hour.

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Shannon Frizell of New Zealand is tackled during The Rugby Championship match. (Getty)

"They're a prime squad and we evidently stung them astatine the commencement with the tempo we were capable to play. I thought our tendency to play connected apical of them aboriginal was determination and we got bully reward for it.

"But they came back. We've spoken earlier astir defending leads, and they had a batch of acquisition connected their seat successful that 3rd quarter. But I thought we rowed done that, truthful it's a bully measurement for us."

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Shannon Frizell scores a effort during the Rugby Championship lucifer betwixt the All Blacks and Springboks astatine Mt Smart Stadium. (Fiona Goodall via Getty Images)

The All Blacks surely had to negociate a choky spot oregon 2 arsenic the Boks muscled their mode backmost into the contest, closing to wrong 8 (23-15) with Cheslin Kolbe's 67th-minute score. But Foster felt a beardown closeout of the 2nd fractional would instil immoderate much-needed assurance successful his group.

"Any triumph implicit South Africa is beauteous special, peculiarly this South African team, and to woody with the champion they had disconnected the bench, and the mode we did it, was encouraging, helium said.

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"I conjecture the happening that gives america astir assurance is they had a batch of momentum successful the 2nd fractional wherever they were connected top, and alternatively than losing our mode for excessively agelong we managed to find a mode back.

"That was the portion that was truly pleasing. If we tin support gathering that assurance successful that portion of our crippled past the first-half worldly volition beryllium beauteous good."

Asked if his All Blacks were wherever helium wanted them to beryllium astatine this signifier of a defining year, Foster added: "Two retired of two. We said astatine the commencement we wanted to absorption connected the present and now, and this squad has learnt if we get distracted by looking excessively acold successful the region we travel ourselves up.

"We person got a batch of maturation to do. We are learning let's conscionable nail each week astatine a time, not deliberation excessively overmuch astir thing else, and conscionable absorption connected being arsenic bully arsenic we tin beryllium close now. That's been a bully look for us, and has meant we haven't tried to over-analyse the past oregon get excessively excited astir the future."

New Zealand's Beauden Barrett is tackled by South Africa's Damian Willemse during the Rugby Championship. (Alan Lee/Photosport via AP)

As for immoderate intelligence origin up of a imaginable World Cup quarterfinal matchup against the Boks, the All Blacks manager wasn't getting excessively carried away.

"I don't cognize ... the World Cup is simply a bid of one-off games …. successful immoderate ways I don't deliberation it's relevant, simply due to the fact that of the quality of World Cups. Where it is applicable is the assurance you get retired of gathering the blocks successful your ain game. We'll instrumentality that.

"But you lone person to spell backmost to Super Rugby to realise the squad that won it mislaid to the different squad doubly successful the year. But we are delighted astir tonight's game."

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Foster besides had predictably glowing praise for his 2 idiosyncratic standouts, loosie Shannon Frizell and helping Will Jordan.

"(Shannon) has taken the situation connected board. It's a jersey helium wants. I was delighted. I thought past week was 1 of his champion tests, and Argentina are a pugnacious team, and helium was strong. To bash it again this week is beauteous special. He should beryllium proud.

"Will Jordan aft his interruption came backmost and we saw the prime of him. The shot went his mode a spot aboriginal which was pleasing, and the information we could get him heavy progressive from the helping was besides precise pleasing."

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Skipper Sam Cane, who went disconnected astatine halftime with a cervix wounded that was not overly serious, was besides rapt with a show that has his squad ideally placed 2 games into the caller season. He said the commencement had been captious arsenic they won the archetypal collisions, got the shot into abstraction and nullified the visitors' line-speed somewhat.

"We're successful a beauteous bully spot. We came successful with abbreviated mentation but it was large for america arsenic a squad to spell to Argentina ... it enabled america to travel unneurotic rather quickly, and to beryllium capable to enactment retired 2 performances we're beauteous arrogant of. But we're going to support searching for ways to improve, truthful travel the close clip of the twelvemonth we're astatine our best."

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