All Blacks fans moenie worry nie, coach Ian Foster and his side “aren’t panicking” after getting the grootste pak in the team’s history (35-7) against the Springboks at Twickenham at the weekend.
In fact, despite fans and pundits starting to paap ahead of next month’s World Cup in France after the result, Foster says they are still confident heading into the tournament.
He tells the team’s website: “We’re confident. It didn’t look like that, and I know we got a good spanking, so I’m not hiding from that fact. We’re not panicking about that result.
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“We knew we were going to get challenged. It’s not the result we wanted. I still believe in the plan.
“I still believe the group that needed to play played.”
He adds: “We’ve now got a good litmus test of where we’re at. Everyone is in the same boat after this weekend.”
New Zealand face France in the World Cup opener on September 8.