January 14, 2026 • 8 mins
Nathan Burdon looks at Scott Robertson's shaky hold on the All Blacks' head coaching job which looks as though it is coming to an end.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
When I was a little by.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Our resident sporting Gary Nathan Burland joins us once again
this afternoon, get a nath House things.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah good, thanks Mace. Welcome to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And it started off in a while in a big way.
There's a lot of rumors going around that Scott Robertson
is on his way out of coaching the All Blacks,
and made of mind Tim Sanson sent through a missive
saying disposable razor.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, not quite gone by lunchtime. But the I mean,
the years don't get any any bigger. That doesn't the
news doesn't get much bigger than it doesn't than than
a reporter of an All Black coach being sacked. And
you would imagine some of the language that's being used
in these previews is pretty strong. People are obviously feeling
(00:54):
pretty confident about the sources that they've got that it'd
be so it does. It does appear that the writings on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The wall, well, all's not well. We've known that there's
been changes in the coaching personnel over the past couple
of seasons, and people likes Leah McDonald. I thought he
was pretty close to raisers, So some things at play
there but at the same time, you can argue that
player power if this is the case, it's all speculating
at the moment, of course, is that player power was
(01:21):
pulling through.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, And I've got to admit I was pretty excited,
you know, for the whole Scott Robertson era to get underway.
I felt like Ian Foster's tenure was probably a continuation
of what we'd had before, and that the rugby world
felt like it was moving on and the All Blacks
weren't necessarily moving at the same pace. And you know,
(01:44):
for a nation that had always been very much an innovator,
when it came to the fifteen man code, we'd sort
of we'd fallen behind and wasn't really a place that
we that we could be. So I felt like Scott
Robertson would would take us forward. And but over the
past two years it's a team that you know, they've
flattered to deceive at times, have been they've been inconsistent.
(02:06):
I guess set that inconsistency that at the end of
the day, if Scott Robertson does lose his job, that'll
be the that'll be the key factor. And I guess
when it comes to the to their inconsistency. If it's
not a united group, that's probably that's sort of the
symptom that you see, isn't it when if not every
if everyone's not pulling in the same direction, if they
don't understand what they're trying to achieve, if they don't
(02:28):
trust the people around them, and that's that's I guess
some of the criticisms that we're hearing at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, the player stood behind Ian Foster and when he
was in Foster in South Africa and he was about
to go on the way out. But by the sounds
of it, the total opposite has occurred this time.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, even though I mean Scott Robertson's got something like
a seventy four percent win rate, Ian Foster finished with
sixty nine percent. But yeah, you're right, So they've senior
players that saved the and Foster when when his head
was on the was on the block and got him
through to that to that Rugby World Cup where you know,
we almost want to we almost won a world title.
(03:05):
Let's let's be fair. But it's a massive year coming
up with the Nation's Cup and a huge campaign for
the All Blacks. We're midway through that World Cup cycle.
If you are going to bring in a new coaching unit,
you've you've got to give them a couple of years
to get the job done, to get their feet under
the table, to really give them a decent crack. And
(03:27):
by the same token, you know in the whole thing
that the shadow of the silver ap money, you know,
at a time when the All Blacks brand needs to
be super strong to really maximize some of that investment
that's gone into it, this this inconsistency really doesn't do
the brand the what we need from it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, we's see how this pans out.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The Tour of Southland supposed to be in October postponed
for the obvious suit of the weather cacks off this weekend.
You're all over this like a rash.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You're pretty excited about a January East Past Bank Tour
south and to be fair, obviously state of emergency in
late October November when the race is traditionally held. So
a very good call to postpone that race, and just
a huge amount of work from from a bunch of people,
you know, from the from the volunteers, to the organizers,
(04:21):
to the sponsors, to to basically all the moving parts
that make this big race happen. To to avoid a
cancelation and to actually find another date that works and
to get to get the sixty ninth edition underway is
a mammoth effort. So really excited for Sunday. A slightly
(04:42):
different start place. Who based around sort of ykiwe rugby
grounds in Banfield Road and Queen's Drive on Sunday rather
than around Queens Park, So a little bit of a
change there, but yeah, it's going to be the great
sort of nine hundred odd kilometers of racing.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Josh Burnette, Marshall Lerwin for example. Few names to look
out for from a local perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, Josh Brinette wouldn't have been available in November. He's
sort of badly bashed up his elbow and in a
racing accident, so was injured out of that. So this
he's he's probably one of the one of the big
benefactors of the date change, but he'll have a massive
target on his back. He he's won this race two
(05:23):
out of the last three editions and he'd love nothing
more than a nothing more than a three peet. But
he will be riding with a different team riding with
Pounette rather than his Zenz Cycling Project team that got
him across the line the last two times. So that's
a that's another another factor. But yeah, there'll be there'll
be plenty of writers sort of looking to take him down.
(05:45):
But but he's a classy writer. He dominates on the climbs,
the Remarkables and Black Hill Beanco of those key climbs
that you know you've got to probably win one of
those stages if you're if you're a serious contender for
the Orange Jersey. And I'd very surprised if Josh Burnette
wasn't sort of setting the pace in the second half
of the week.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And Tara Tanga lights up as well.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, looking at looking ahead to next weekend, the big
single seater meet at Tira Tonga, and you know, we've
we've been blessed with you know, future F one stars,
the likes of Lando Norris and Arvan Lynn Blad and
and you know, when you go back into the back
into the history book, some of that some of the
great names of motorsport have come through Tira Tonga, So
(06:29):
you know, nothing will change this time around. You'll there'll
be names that will feature next weekend that we'll probably
see on Drive to Survive in future future seasons.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And just finally, Jacob Duffy he's got the ZPL contract.
We've got him on the show for a chat tomorrow.
But the black Caps they got a short ball format
win over India and India Darryl Mitchell he's number two
in the od I batting rankings at the moment.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, which is a great sort of bounce back from
Daryl Mitchell. Isn't another probably unfairly the number of replays
of that drop catch that he had in the in
the first one ODIO against India, So it's great to
see that happen and Jake Duffy getting a bit of
a spell in these early games after it's been such
a massive campaign and they definitely want to sharpen him
(07:16):
up for World Cup duties looking ahead, so hopefully another
big summer for Big Jake.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was in the yeshes an absolute disappointment, dudes.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wasn't it when there when there wasn't much else happening
on the box? So yeah, it was the odd remote
was starting to get a bit of a workout actually
at times, trying to find something that was worthwhile and
there'll be some there's obviously some ongoing sort of recriminations
from that and whether the England coaching lineup and and
Brendan McCullum will survive the review. He might be sharpening
(07:52):
up his CV alongside Scott Robertson.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Perhaps good on your note, will chat to your next
week while you're on the tour looking forward to it.
Sounds good, mate, Laugh out loud with ag proud because
life on the land can be a laughing matter. Brought
to us by sheer Well data working to help the
livestock farmer. What's worse than a lobster on your piano?
(08:15):
Crabs on your organ? Like I say, send the jokes in,
please keep them. PG to the Muster on Hockey new
we facebook page. My name's Andy Muller. Will leave it
there for the afternoon. This has been the Muster on
Hockey now thanks to Peter's geneis enjoy the afternoon. We'll
see what happens if us raised the situation. Catch you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So now
When I was a little by.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Our resident sporting Gary Nathan Burland joins us once again
this afternoon, get a nath House things.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah good, thanks Mace. Welcome to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And it started off in a while in a big way.
There's a lot of rumors going around that Scott Robertson
is on his way out of coaching the All Blacks,
and made of mind Tim Sanson sent through a missive
saying disposable razor.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, not quite gone by lunchtime. But the I mean,
the years don't get any any bigger. That doesn't the
news doesn't get much bigger than it doesn't than than
a reporter of an All Black coach being sacked. And
you would imagine some of the language that's being used
in these previews is pretty strong. People are obviously feeling
(00:54):
pretty confident about the sources that they've got that it'd
be so it does. It does appear that the writings on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The wall, well, all's not well. We've known that there's
been changes in the coaching personnel over the past couple
of seasons, and people likes Leah McDonald. I thought he
was pretty close to raisers, So some things at play
there but at the same time, you can argue that
player power if this is the case, it's all speculating
at the moment, of course, is that player power was
(01:21):
pulling through.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, And I've got to admit I was pretty excited,
you know, for the whole Scott Robertson era to get underway.
I felt like Ian Foster's tenure was probably a continuation
of what we'd had before, and that the rugby world
felt like it was moving on and the All Blacks
weren't necessarily moving at the same pace. And you know,
(01:44):
for a nation that had always been very much an innovator,
when it came to the fifteen man code, we'd sort
of we'd fallen behind and wasn't really a place that
we that we could be. So I felt like Scott
Robertson would would take us forward. And but over the
past two years it's a team that you know, they've
flattered to deceive at times, have been they've been inconsistent.
(02:06):
I guess set that inconsistency that at the end of
the day, if Scott Robertson does lose his job, that'll
be the that'll be the key factor. And I guess
when it comes to the to their inconsistency. If it's
not a united group, that's probably that's sort of the
symptom that you see, isn't it when if not every
if everyone's not pulling in the same direction, if they
don't understand what they're trying to achieve, if they don't
(02:28):
trust the people around them, and that's that's I guess
some of the criticisms that we're hearing at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, the player stood behind Ian Foster and when he
was in Foster in South Africa and he was about
to go on the way out. But by the sounds
of it, the total opposite has occurred this time.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, even though I mean Scott Robertson's got something like
a seventy four percent win rate, Ian Foster finished with
sixty nine percent. But yeah, you're right, So they've senior
players that saved the and Foster when when his head
was on the was on the block and got him
through to that to that Rugby World Cup where you know,
we almost want to we almost won a world title.
(03:05):
Let's let's be fair. But it's a massive year coming
up with the Nation's Cup and a huge campaign for
the All Blacks. We're midway through that World Cup cycle.
If you are going to bring in a new coaching unit,
you've you've got to give them a couple of years
to get the job done, to get their feet under
the table, to really give them a decent crack. And
(03:27):
by the same token, you know in the whole thing
that the shadow of the silver ap money, you know,
at a time when the All Blacks brand needs to
be super strong to really maximize some of that investment
that's gone into it, this this inconsistency really doesn't do
the brand the what we need from it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, we's see how this pans out.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The Tour of Southland supposed to be in October postponed
for the obvious suit of the weather cacks off this weekend.
You're all over this like a rash.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You're pretty excited about a January East Past Bank Tour
south and to be fair, obviously state of emergency in
late October November when the race is traditionally held. So
a very good call to postpone that race, and just
a huge amount of work from from a bunch of people,
you know, from the from the volunteers, to the organizers,
(04:21):
to the sponsors, to to basically all the moving parts
that make this big race happen. To to avoid a
cancelation and to actually find another date that works and
to get to get the sixty ninth edition underway is
a mammoth effort. So really excited for Sunday. A slightly
(04:42):
different start place. Who based around sort of ykiwe rugby
grounds in Banfield Road and Queen's Drive on Sunday rather
than around Queens Park, So a little bit of a
change there, but yeah, it's going to be the great
sort of nine hundred odd kilometers of racing.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Josh Burnette, Marshall Lerwin for example. Few names to look
out for from a local perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, Josh Brinette wouldn't have been available in November. He's
sort of badly bashed up his elbow and in a
racing accident, so was injured out of that. So this
he's he's probably one of the one of the big
benefactors of the date change, but he'll have a massive
target on his back. He he's won this race two
(05:23):
out of the last three editions and he'd love nothing
more than a nothing more than a three peet. But
he will be riding with a different team riding with
Pounette rather than his Zenz Cycling Project team that got
him across the line the last two times. So that's
a that's another another factor. But yeah, there'll be there'll
be plenty of writers sort of looking to take him down.
(05:45):
But but he's a classy writer. He dominates on the climbs,
the Remarkables and Black Hill Beanco of those key climbs
that you know you've got to probably win one of
those stages if you're if you're a serious contender for
the Orange Jersey. And I'd very surprised if Josh Burnette
wasn't sort of setting the pace in the second half
of the week.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And Tara Tanga lights up as well.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, looking at looking ahead to next weekend, the big
single seater meet at Tira Tonga, and you know, we've
we've been blessed with you know, future F one stars,
the likes of Lando Norris and Arvan Lynn Blad and
and you know, when you go back into the back
into the history book, some of that some of the
great names of motorsport have come through Tira Tonga, So
(06:29):
you know, nothing will change this time around. You'll there'll
be names that will feature next weekend that we'll probably
see on Drive to Survive in future future seasons.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And just finally, Jacob Duffy he's got the ZPL contract.
We've got him on the show for a chat tomorrow.
But the black Caps they got a short ball format
win over India and India Darryl Mitchell he's number two
in the od I batting rankings at the moment.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, which is a great sort of bounce back from
Daryl Mitchell. Isn't another probably unfairly the number of replays
of that drop catch that he had in the in
the first one ODIO against India, So it's great to
see that happen and Jake Duffy getting a bit of
a spell in these early games after it's been such
a massive campaign and they definitely want to sharpen him
(07:16):
up for World Cup duties looking ahead, so hopefully another
big summer for Big Jake.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was in the yeshes an absolute disappointment, dudes.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wasn't it when there when there wasn't much else happening
on the box? So yeah, it was the odd remote
was starting to get a bit of a workout actually
at times, trying to find something that was worthwhile and
there'll be some there's obviously some ongoing sort of recriminations
from that and whether the England coaching lineup and and
Brendan McCullum will survive the review. He might be sharpening
(07:52):
up his CV alongside Scott Robertson.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Perhaps good on your note, will chat to your next
week while you're on the tour looking forward to it.
Sounds good, mate, Laugh out loud with ag proud because
life on the land can be a laughing matter. Brought
to us by sheer Well data working to help the
livestock farmer. What's worse than a lobster on your piano?
(08:15):
Crabs on your organ? Like I say, send the jokes in,
please keep them. PG to the Muster on Hockey new
we facebook page. My name's Andy Muller. Will leave it
there for the afternoon. This has been the Muster on
Hockey now thanks to Peter's geneis enjoy the afternoon. We'll
see what happens if us raised the situation. Catch you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
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