Is New Zealand's DNA in crisis and can it spark Bledisloe Cup triumph? | The Breakdown

The Breakdown discusses the All Blacks' recent struggles and losses, questioning whether New Zealand is still the envy of the rugby world, while also considering the upcoming Bledisloe Cup against Australia. #breakdown

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[EdLo]

Razor is finding his feet, give the guy time. He is getting to know his players. Who can he trust etc. It all takes time. Rassie knows his whole squad inside and out through two world cups. The ABs are going through a transition period which takes more time than the NZ media has the patience for.

[paulvanjaarsveld]

Love JM commentating, balanced, fair, educated………

[Ballas]

As someone who have played rugby for 30 years and watched it for 60 years, every team goes through ups and downs. What matters is learning why, and how you solve the problems. The good teams do that. The only developments that have changed rugby in that time has been the world cup and going professional. The only real bad thing has been most, but not all, people running rugby. I know this is a slightly simplistic view but it is the heart of the matter.

[chasey]

Other rugby nations have squeezed off Darth Vader's helmet - can he put it back on? Given that ABs were miles ahead in skills, conditioning and training for so long and kiwi coaches have worked overseas there are no secrets left and its inevitable that others would catch up. Rest of the world has a slight chance now but at the same time it's a shame. Still awesome to watch, every rugby fans fave team if they're being honest.

[janetihaka]

We are in absolute crisis. I wish Justin could stay on this panel as well. 🖤🖤🖤

[Goggawie]

Im SA. Eversince I can remember, ALL Blacks were the feared team to play. We hate and love them. Springboks playing AB always delivers exciting entertainment. Respect

[RaymondNiumataiwalu]

South Africa is not afraid to throw in a fresh face everyear. An under 20 front rower, backrower or backline. Their domestic competition must be loaded with young talent amongst the most experienced ones.They will never be short of first class players.

[speeddemon]

problem ? N.Z. rugby is not the no 1 sport in N.Z. now, there are more soccer players than rugby players, there is the hard core rugby fans, but, the rules of rugby have been changed so much, it has turned hoards of ex fans off the game, i have lost interest in rugby, the yellow and red cards and pedantic rules have ruined the game for both spectators and players alike, also with the way they have changed the game, we now have a crappy game of rugby league with lineouts.

[davidlittle]

Gotta love Marshy as a commentator, he simply is the best to listen to.

[RobClifton-vief]

Kids are brought up soft now in smaller families , bigger families rough an tumbled back in the day .
More kids play other sports now.

[internetcentrist]

I don't know why anyone is thinking the Bledisloe fixtures are going to be a challenge

[rchw]

We are on the back foot for sure. The world has finally caught up. It’s a level playing field now. It’s like top tier soccer. Anyone can win on their day.

[JWLearning]

There's a myriad of reasons why the AB's are in a rough patch but from what I see there are two major issues that is also effecting Australia. First is the amount of quality players isn't as strong as previous generations, and the second is there's greater professionalism around the world now. Between 1995 to around 2015 Super Rugby was king, it was without doubt the best domestic rugby competition in the world. Now, not only have the European leagues surpassed it, there's more professionalism coming out of Japan, and even the recently established pro-leagues North American and South America. The world not only caught up, in some places it's surpassed Super Rugby and will only get stronger. The question now is what can NZ and AUS do about this? The most obvious short term fix is to let overseas players play for the national team, but that doesn't solve the long term problems.

[Brent]

Interesting to see how much 'time' Razor gets, when the previous guy, who actually performed and got the ABs to the World Cup final was not respected.

[deongeldenhuys]

Say it out loud, Razor is not the coach for test rugby, his combination choices and the fact that he has the opertunity to select a All Black 15 that can beat any team in the world...why did Bauden not play 10 and Procter 12 in Capetown with Satiti on 8...both the starting 12 and 13 are not firing since when does a all black coach condone that. Leave the political approach and call a spade a spade

[janetihaka]

This game is the coaches chance to finally get his selection right.RAZOR needs to bring in SATUTU AS WELL we need some strong front rowers don’t take off the players that are playing so well. Sometimes I can’t believe what he does when applying his bench. Also he needs a nice haircut, . I still love the game 🖤🖤🖤🙏🏻🙏🏻

[fabiangroom]

NZR needs to take a long hard look at itself with the way things have turned out over the years. We've lost South Africa in super rugby and we are being dictated to in the southern hemisphere yet we did not respond in a positive way. We've lost some of our top coaches to overseas opportunities and now we are looking to Razor to resurrect things. Not good enough on NZRs part. Coaching continuity has failed us and we need to get our rugby winning coaches with good track records to revive the game at international level otherwise we face a bleak future.

[johngraham]

The ABs have lost more than ground we've lost our fear factor there's only one player in this current team who was part of the "fear factor" era from 2011 upto now and that's Beauden Barrett this 2024 team is a young team who are trying to find their feet we don't have player's who put fear into the opposition and we may never have that anymore the challenge for Razor his coaching staff and the players is to find that 2nd half performance to close out those games close games and be the best team on that day

[kdogg]

Changes needed at 9 and 10 that's all. Roigard's return from injury will be good. Maybe look at bringing Mo'unga back. DMac is best coming on off the bench when the game is looser. The rest will just take some time as the new coaching philosophy takes up.

[Tiberius-]

Jordie and reikos experiment should come to a end! Fullback and winger struggling to break through line! Good players but lacking that x factor combination like Nonu and Conrad.
Last Coaching Game plan didn't work last game with south Africa. Hoping Tj and Barret would add abit of speed in late 2nd half, the boys were already zapped.
To many wingers and fullbacks in the current team. If they don't use the other players like proctor now. Then when the play the hard teams like south Africa, they gona get the same results. No x factor