{"id":7377,"date":"2023-08-22T06:56:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7377"},"modified":"2023-08-22T06:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:56:34","slug":"former-all-blacks-coach-joins-wallabies-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7377","title":{"rendered":"Former All Blacks coach joins Wallabies ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup-winning All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has joined the Wallabies ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup after accepting a request from Eddie Jones to help out in France.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most unlikely coaching developments in recent years, Hansen is helping the Wallabies in an advisory role as they prepare for a warm-up match against France in Paris on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\" data-testid=\"body-content\">\n<p>Hansen, who led the All Blacks to victory over Australia in the 2015 World Cup final, has agreed to share some of his insights before the Wallabies kick off their campaign against Georgia on September 9.<\/p>\n<p>Wallabies officials confirmed to this masthead that Hansen is in camp with the Wallabies before this weekend\u2019s match against France. Hansen is expected to be with Australia for about a week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1lC_G\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1665V _2q-Vk\" data-testid=\"body-content\">\n<p>Hansen, who has a long-standing friendship with Jones, is not being paid by Rugby Australia for the week.<\/p>\n<p>Coaches from other teams and codes have been invited into the Wallabies set-up at various times during the year. The Wallabies say Hansen does not have an official role this week but is giving advice to Jones when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>SMH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cup-winning All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has joined the Wallabies ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup after accepting a request from Eddie Jones to help out in France. In one of the most unlikely coaching developments in recent years, Hansen is helping the Wallabies in an advisory role as they prepare for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7377","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\/7377","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=7377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7379,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions\/7379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}