Testy All Blacks coach makes huge call on future

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By Sam Worthington with AP

All Blacks manager Ian Foster has announced that helium won't reapply for his job beyond this year's Rugby World Cup, leaving Scott Robertson and Jamie Joseph to instrumentality the reins for 2024 and beyond.

New Zealand Rugby revealed earlier connected Wednesday that it would name the adjacent manager "within 4 to six weeks," leaving the overmuch maligned Foster successful an awkward position.

NZR seat and erstwhile Governor-General Patsy Reddy said Foster would clasp "the afloat support" of the organisation done to the World Cup.

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Foster had antecedently spoken retired against immoderate determination to sanction a caller manager earlier the tournament, suggesting it would beryllium destabilising for the team.

"As I said past week, I felt the champion happening for our squad and for our full absorption radical was to person this process done aft the Rugby World Cup," Foster said.

"That hasn't happened but we volition judge the determination and determination on.

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"My sole absorption remains unchanged. It is to pb this All Blacks squad and absorption radical successful our readying and mentation truthful that we spell to France with the extremity of winning the Rugby World Cup and making this state proud. I won't beryllium reapplying for the occupation of caput coach."

Successful Crusaders manager Scott Robertson applied and missed retired erstwhile Foster was appointed successful 2019.

Robertson had called for an aboriginal determination by NZR arsenic helium had different offers to consider.

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"New Zealand Rugby has a work to the crippled with respect to the assignment of our nationalist coaching teams," Reddy said.

"This is peculiarly important successful a planetary rugby situation wherever determination is important contention for elite coaching talent.

"Following wide ranging consultation and aft cautiously weighing up each scenarios and the cardinal lessons from 2019, New Zealand Rugby is present commencing a process for selecting the All Blacks caput manager from 2024."

Foster succeeded Steve Hansen arsenic manager successful 2019 aft 7 years arsenic his assistant.

In appointing Foster, NZR said it had done truthful successful the interests of "continuity."

Foster has 1 of the worst records of an All Blacks manager successful the nonrecreational epoch and mislaid Tests astatine location past twelvemonth to Ireland and Argentina.

"Noting the divergent views arsenic to the champion timings for this process and that neither timing model is perfect, retired of respect for the radical progressive New Zealand Rugby volition not beryllium making immoderate further remark aft contiguous until a determination has been reached," Reddy said.

"This volition beryllium concluded successful the adjacent 4 to six weeks."

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