Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has accused New Zealand Rugby of presiding over a series of failures in an astonishing attack that labelled the relationship between the All Blacks players and the board as “the worst it’s ever been”.
Hansen came out firing in an interview with Today FM’s Tova O’Brien after weeks of fierce public criticism of the All Blacks, with coach Ian Foster forced to take all the flak while NZ Rugby stayed silent.
That appears to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back for Hansen, whose criticism will put NZ Rugby under intense pressure to respond.
“They’ve come out and aired all their dirty washing in the front part of the property rather out the back,” Hansen said of recent reviews into Ian Foster and former Black Ferns coach Glenn Moore.
“So their job [NZ Rugby] is to run it with strength and leadership but in a way that you’re going to look after the people that work for you.
“Otherwise, you’ll end up with a high turnover of staff which I think that they’re having at the moment.
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Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has accused New Zealand Rugby of presiding over a series of failures.
“So, the relationship between the board and the exec and players at the moment is probably the worst it’s ever been.
”….I don’t think they’re doing the job right at the moment.”
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