Hansen: "England not worth worrying about"

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"England are not even on my mind at the moment. I get a bit frustrated hearing about England. We'll deal about them in England week." All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has explicitly crushed any anticipation that NZ will view England as a grudge or revenge match today by stating emphatically that he doesn't believe they're worth more than a weeks standard analysis and preparation.


Instead Shag is focussing in the twin squad challenge of Japan and France who appear to be the All Blacks targets for the focus of this tour: building depth in key positions, giving DC the challenge of re asserting his position as first pick at 10, and his apprentice projects Savea Jr, Toomaga-Allen and fringe squad members such as Halai.


England are the only team to have dented Hansens unbeaten coaching record on last years end of year tour when they overcame the off colour All Blacks in the final game of the season. But that for Hansen appears not worthy of any greater consideration than any other challenge facing NZ. 


His approach has seen NZ clinch two undefeated rugby championship titles and retain the coveted #1 world ranking despite introducing 16 new All Blacks. 


Is he right to write off England? Or is he walking into a second ambush?

I'm just amazed anybody bothered to read, it's quite clear 99% of people didn't initially, it took over a day, and a full page of comments before someone pointed out what the article actually said  

wolf... Wolf... WOLF!!!

The NZ herald regularly picks up articles from
International agencies, so they're not really an "NZ herald interview" merely an article written by an independent or otherwise journalist with a personal and company agenda.

If you check pat, he wrote an article on the England game just a week ago, so it's likely he's responding to shags response to that.

GloriousEmpire wrote:Total and predictable hysterical over reaction just as predicted.

The media in Britain really need to be wound in. They sensationalise everything and precipitate chaos for no reason.

Same with house prices. Ultimately they are responsible for the financial crisis and then they created the propaganda war against banks to cover their arses.

They do the same thing to British sporting teams.

This is the same storm resulting in actual deaths?

No 7&1/2 wrote:

GloriousEmpire wrote:Total and predictable hysterical over reaction just as predicted.

The media in Britain really need to be wound in. They sensationalise everything and precipitate chaos for no reason.

Same with house prices. Ultimately they are responsible for the financial crisis and then they created the propaganda war against banks to cover their arses.

They do the same thing to British sporting teams.

This is the same storm resulting in actual deaths?

Check britains recently published mortality statistics. Sad though it is, death by storm doesn't even rank in terms of tragedies today. However the media will report it as though these few people were the only who died today. That's the definition of hysteria.