New Zealand head coach Ian Foster taking on the toughest job in rugby – The Times

Category: Knockout Game

RUGBY UNION | STEPHEN JONES

December 15 2019, 12:01am,The Sunday Times

Stephen Jones, Rugby correspondent

More than 75% of Kiwis do not want Ian Foster to coach the All Blacks, and for good reason

Was Englands evisceration of New Zealand in the semi-final of the World Cup even more significant than we thought at the time? It was certainly a sensational sporting soaking, perhaps the most one-sided knockout game of any World Cup. But was it also the end of the All Black epoch? Was it Gotterdammerung, the Twilight of the Gods? There was certainly an air of finality. Kieran Read, the long-serving and celebrated captain, walked off into the sunset of retirement. Coach Steve Hansen and Brodie Retallick, the lock, left for the softest of existences available in professional rugby, the Japan League; three icons Ryan Crotty, Ben Smith and the sharply overrated Sonny Bill Williams had all played their last for the All Blacks.

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