Analysis\u00a0<\/i>– We’re seven tests into Scott Robertson’s first year in charge of the All Blacks.<\/p>\n
The current record doesn’t look that fantastic, with four wins and three losses, however the next two weeks can play a big role in turning that around.<\/p>\n
Despite\u00a0suffering two losses in a row<\/a>\u00a0to the Springboks, the All Blacks head into the Bledisloe Cup series as overwhelming favourites. That does say just as much about their opposition as it does about them, however – the Wallabies have somehow\u00a0plumbed a new depth<\/a>\u00a0after their shocking 2023 campaign.<\/p>\n But really, this is an opportunity for Robertson to re-energise the All Blacks after their bruising experiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town. In the second test they were met with a ferocious and committed defensive effort that frustrated them into the first tryless All Black performance in six years, so the question now is how many adjustments on attack do they make?<\/p>\n One thing is for sure – that the first choice back three includes Caleb Clarke, who was in great form at Ellis Park before being sidelined in the second test. Will Jordan’s effort at fullback in Cape Town raised more questions than answers, so it’s likely he heads back to the right wing and Beauden Barrett returns to the 15 jersey. These are the strike weapons that feel most calibrated to have an effect against a Wallaby defence that’s coming off being shredded for 67 points against the Pumas.<\/p>\n rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Analysis\u00a0– We’re seven tests into Scott Robertson’s first year in charge of the All Blacks. The current record doesn’t look that fantastic, with four wins and three losses, however the next two weeks can play a big role in turning that around. Despite\u00a0suffering two losses in a row\u00a0to the Springboks, the All Blacks head into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11447,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions\/11447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}