All Blacks Rotate Coaches Again

Friday 16 April 2010
Published By: Amy Nicholson
International Rugby > New Zealand

New Zealand Head Coach Graham Henry has rotated his coaching staff once again to freshen up his team ahead of the series of summer internationals in June.

Coaches Steve Hansen and Henry have swapped roles again with Henry moving to take over running the attack with Hansen looking after the pack of forwards.

Wayne Smith is staying put in his position of defence coach.

The change comes regardless of the unbeaten end of year tour to Japan and Europe with Henry insisting that the change was made as a result of an internal review:

"People asked why have we changed the roles after such a successful tour.

"There's no point in going through this review process and not taking any notice of the information we're getting. We think it's a way forward in improving what we're doing both for the team and as coaches."