Hansen named ABs coach
16 Dec 2011
The New Zealand Rugby Union has contracted Steve Hansen as the head coach of the All Blacks until the end of 2013.
Hansen was expected to succeed Henry, so Friday’s announcement came as no surprise. Hansen has served as an assistant coach to Henry at the All Blacks for the past eight years, and so his elevation to the top job was seen by many as a natural progression.
On the point of assistants, Hansen’s sidekicks will only be named at a later date. On Friday, Hansen said he will only need one assistant instead of the traditional two. The others involved in the All Blacks management in 2012 will be specialist coaches.
The decision by the NZRU to appoint Hansen was unanimous.
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17 Dec 2011, 15:55 pm
We love our rugby in cape town: schools, varsity, club, vodacom cup, currie cup, super rugby and test match rugby. Unlike NZ, us Safa’s enjoy the game of rugby and not just the all blacks. We have more spectators at Varsity games than super rugby games in NZ
17 Dec 2011, 15:59 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-51:
Ever been car jacked on the way back from one of those sold out under 5′s games?
17 Dec 2011, 16:03 pm
You started so i’ll finish;
One of the most dangerous areas of Cape Town is Nyanga, where there is an unemployment rate of about 70%, as well as a huge breakout of HIV/AIDS amongst its residents.
17 Dec 2011, 16:06 pm
Nyanga is a rural area, a lot of all black supporters there
17 Dec 2011, 16:07 pm
You should stick to rugby ever country has big problems including mine.
17 Dec 2011, 16:08 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-54:
Do you not live there?
17 Dec 2011, 16:11 pm
Stop trying to get my address, I’m not a sheep
17 Dec 2011, 16:33 pm
Now I know why you live in Cape town;
Johannesburg is the most dangerous city in the world. As a result of its high crime rate, the CBD of the city, the Hillbrow district has now been taken by the criminals, being the new CBD in the most luxurious suburb of Johannesburg, Sandton City. Tourists are suppossed to never visit Johannesburg… The few policemen in Johannesburg are paid by criminals to not arrest them, and also remembering that South Africa is the country with the highest rates of rapes, carjacking and assaults per capita. The second highest rate of murders, after Colombia.
17 Dec 2011, 16:41 pm
You should stick to rugby ever country has its problems.
17 Dec 2011, 16:46 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-57: chap, you’re an embarassment.
17 Dec 2011, 22:02 pm
Gtaland is a way better as than coach than Hanson or Henson or is it Handsup?
This chap struggled when he was coaching on his own, fact
He has foot in mouth disease – fact
He was kicked by Henry in 2008/9 – fact
But then agaim the ABs do not need a great coach as they do not have any:
Provincialism
Politics
Government control
Quotas
You basically need a caretaker/manager
17 Dec 2011, 22:03 pm
@Transformation-60: Speaking for everyone or yourself
18 Dec 2011, 01:53 am
@JL1-61:
Hanson will still be good enough to clean up your boys again next year.
18 Dec 2011, 02:15 am
@bokfan1-12:
lol Did you just use the word IMAGINE??
Ok my turn
IMAGINE if the Boks were as good as the supporters say they are.
IMAGINE if the Bok were not the Ozzies *******
IMAGINE if the Boks had 100% of the ball in the QF, they may have drawn with OZ.
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-45:
Strange.
We stared exporting lamb and wool in the 1880s.
My great great grandfather use to have a sheep farm. in the 1940s he use to sell meat to NZ super markets only, never exported. So it seem your facts are either made up or….. they are made up.
PLease do not try and make out you know something about a country when you have never even been there.
18 Dec 2011, 02:17 am
@NZINCHINA-63:
Thats a fact
18 Dec 2011, 02:31 am
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-43:
You must live in a box.
70% is so incorrect its not funny. You have doubled the percentage to make it look good for you. Like its a joke women being abused. I know the figure, lets say my wife works in a place that studies and knows the percentage of reported abuse.
Now you seem to have opened up a can of worms. Below was taken from a stude in 2011. It makes for some disturbing reading, especially for someone like you that seems so blnd or does not care whats happening in your own backyard.
It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read. One in three of the 4,000 women questioned by the Community of Information, Empowerment and Transparency said they had been raped in the past year.A survey conducted among 1,500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that ‘jackrolling’, a term for gang rape, was fun. More than 25% of South African men questioned in a survey admitted to raping someone; of those, nearly half said they had raped more than one person, according to a new study conducted by the Medical Research Council (MRC). It is estimated that 500,000 rapes are committed annually in South Africa. A 2010 study led by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation says that in Gauteng province, home to South Africa’s most populous city of Johannesburg, more than 37 percent of men said they had raped a woman. Nearly 7 percent of the 487 men surveyed said they had participated in a gang rape.
South Africa has some of the highest incidences of child and baby rape in the world with more than 67,000 cases of rape and sexual assaults against children reported in 2000. Welfare groups believe that the number of unreported incidents could be up to 10 times that number. The largest increase in attacks was against children under seven. A number of high-profile baby rapes since 2001 (including the fact that they required extensive reconstructive surgery to rebuild urinary, genital, abdominal, or tracheal systems) increased the need to address the problem socially and legally. In 2001, a 9-month-old baby was raped by six men, aged between 24 and 66, after the infant had been left unattended by her teenage mother. A 4-year-old girl died after being raped by her father. A 14-month-old girl was raped by her two uncles. In February 2002, an 8-month-old infant was reportedly gang raped by four men. One has been charged. The infant has required extensive reconstructive surgery. The 8-month-old infant’s injuries were so extensive, increased attention on prosecution has occurred. A common myth holds that sexual intercourse with a virgin will cure a man of HIV or AIDS. Child abusers are often relatives of their victims – even their fathers and providers. According to researcher Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala, the myth that is not confined to South Africa. ?Fellow AIDS researchers in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria have told me that the myth also exists in these countries and that it is being blamed for the high rate of sexual abuse against young children.?
The sad reality is that rape statistics for South Africa in particular have gone up instead of down over the past 5 years. This is on trend with the rest of the world. But is this a trend we want to see grow ? In South Africa in 2006 there were close 55 000 reported rape cases. There are an estimated 450 000 rape cases that go unreported. Here is some more statistical information on rape worldwide.
So NoRugbyGuru, i understand NZ is not perfect and yes we do have a problem with abuse as most countries, but unlike you we admit it is a problem.
Instead of making up false statements about other countries, do some research on your own and try and fix it.
18 Dec 2011, 11:42 am
@Hurricane-66:
careful mate, some bloggers here will label you racist for writing stuff like that!
8)
18 Dec 2011, 13:08 pm
@charo-67:
Hurricane is anything but racist.
Quite the reverse in reality.
He would never have researched these figures and stats had he met a 1000 Saffa’s on the Streets of Christchurch or Wainuiomata.
But some of these Muppits on Keo…………………………………..they bring out the worst in us.
It is nothing personal…………………………………………..just a reaction.
18 Dec 2011, 13:50 pm
@charo-67:
Hmmm, i thought it had nothing to do with race.
@cane-68:
Oh yes, deep research.
Actually its a report that was bought out in the beginning of the year.
Not trying to prove anything here as most understand we live in a meesed up world in most places but Rugbyguru seems to be a bit blind as to what is actually happening. It seems he brings in our percentages of women bashing etc like its a contest.
Nothing about bashing or rapes or anything like that is a joke.
18 Dec 2011, 21:26 pm
i can never understand the angst people have vs nz, and vice versa, all because of rugby
its only a game yet all these other stats about socio-economic issues are being brought into it.
this is a rugby site, discuss rugby. dont convolute it with bs that has nothing to do with the beautiful game.
nz and sa are tru lovers of rugby yet the fighting on this site is the bitterest between our 2 nations. both teams bring great rivalry and bring out the best in each other.
the global game would be that much less vibrant if either team were to disapear. sure argue with your conterparts but remember you can only truly play your great games against a great side.
the history of the boks and ab’s has produced many many great games
18 Dec 2011, 21:42 pm
@man1a-70:
Fair post mate,.
And you are correct.
But if someone is going to spew incorrect things about my country then i will do my best to prove them incorrect.
Its what Kiwis and South Africans do. No one talks smak about our countries so we enter into an offense stance and attack that person.
Rugbyguru just posted a heap of incorrect facts about NZ and the chances are some of these guys on here would believe it. I proved a few poits were incorrect and he just made these things up, hope he wasnt trying to be funny as that too was a failure.
I merely posted a report as to what is happening around this blind bat Guru.
Seen as he is so worried about women abuse as we all should, lets hope he goes out into his community and help.
18 Dec 2011, 22:39 pm
@Hurricane-71: yeah i know cane. it gets to me as well. i dont reply to those anymore. not because i’m a bigger person but i find it p!sses them off more if i ignore them.
i love bok rugby almost as much as the AB’s. have lots of saffa mates in nz who talk smack but its never as offensive as here. jus sometimes i really cringe at the level people stoop to and it detracts from the intelligent blogs posted by other rational saffa’s. i enjoy understanding the psyche of the honoured enemy.
its just the classClowns trolling for attention that p!ss me off.
19 Dec 2011, 14:37 pm
Let’s see how Blacks and Boks will play under new coaches and whether Blacks will maintain their standard having big gorilla finally off their backs. And whether Aussie young pups will develop into big doggie dogs.
Interesting times ahead.
And vamos Pumas!
20 Dec 2011, 10:47 am
Nah, its because theyre lobotomized loser cnuts with a superiority complex who believe the World owes them something. We dont.
20 Dec 2011, 20:55 pm
@Nils-73: agree looking forward to the Puma’s playn 4nations
21 Dec 2011, 03:31 am
I see all the muppets have their di cks out for measuring………..
Bunch of doos’s
21 Dec 2011, 03:34 am
@man1a-72:
open the other eye dude………….your countrymen also post a load of cr ap here which also detracts from the decent bloggers from NZ……….works both ways
21 Dec 2011, 21:42 pm
@whatever-77: hey i didnt say that the trolling dik heads belonged to any nation. wheres the one eyed ness?
21 Dec 2011, 23:06 pm
@man1a-78:
“jus sometimes i really cringe at the level people stoop to and it detracts from the intelligent blogs posted by other rational saffa’s.”
Re -read your own words doos!
21 Dec 2011, 23:23 pm
@whatever-79: fk hed,learn to read
22 Dec 2011, 01:51 am
@man1a-80:
Keewee edhkasion?
22 Dec 2011, 21:43 pm
@whatever-76:
And who might that be?
2 Jan 2012, 05:33 am
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-51: Because, pilgrim, to maximise the global TV rugby audiences in the Africa/Europe time zone (and whose presence before their TVs pays the big bills — and not just the ******-nut money of gate-takings) all NZ games happen at night. Night. In midwinter. When it’s generally wet and cold and you’ve eaten your dinner and had a bath already and then going downtown to pay hefty bucks watch rugby just isn’t as clever an idea as it might seem if it was sunny mild daylight and only 3pm.
Plus, more people live in Joburg than in the whole on NZ.
2 Jan 2012, 05:34 am
minkeynut-money?
2 Jan 2012, 05:44 am
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-44: You can’t “immigrate from”. You “emigrate from” and you “immigrate to”.
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