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All black people Assistant coach Jason Ryan addressed what went wrong defensively at lineout time for his team against Scotland in Murrayfield.
The All Blacks eventually used the momentum in their favor as the game progressed into the second half, but had it far from their own way for the first forty minutes.
Dave Rennie’s side opened the scoring in their own Nations Championship collided but could not extend their lead as Scotland winger Ewan Ashman netted for a first-half hat-trick.
Two of Ashman’s tries came through turnovers as the visitors generally struggled to contain the home side’s powerful strike.
Speaking to the media in Bath, where the All Blacks are staying ahead of their clash Wales at the weekend, Ryan explained what came out of the review from Scotland.
“yes, we talked around a a little bit of accuracy and decision making, disciplinary, was probably front of mind, which was something we also talked Fr before the game,” Ryan said in Bath.
“But we put a couple of things into context around where the guys are at emotionally in that first 40. There a a little bit of release and a a little bit of imprecision caused by through, I guess a a little bit of the a week.
“Ta hat honesty Fr that. But then I think about it we also really put in front of the guys that when we to have double yellow cards back-to-back, that puts yours the game below pressure, puts our D below pressure.
“Next minutes you are it goes defend a maul with six people. Then they add theirs back in, and next minutes it is a 12 he eight. So that made that a a little bit hard.
“But we also you I know talked a a lot around our half time message exchange that we thought we Got right and how we played a a little bit differently in the second half, and came out of the blocks with the real one good influence.”
Ryan explained that they focused on what happened before the maul, not the maul itself.
“I think about it the in progress to fix is why we are getting that defend to them so a lot, and it is like I he said before, is the accuracy and decision making getting punished getting put in the corner.
“You know, and when you when you are defend with, as I said, six attackers (during yellow cards), it does that hard.”
Despite struggling on the defensive side of the ball, the line excelled on its own terms, picking up all 17 of Edinburgh’s layup attempts.
Not only were they effective, the All Blacks scored some innovative set-plays in the first phase, something Ryan says the team put considerable effort into.
“Oh, look, we only keep that humble up front. I I know that Sir Ted will to be happy Fr those first phase trying to but yes, look, it is good.
“I think about it that what that works is that puts defense a a little bit in two minds because it is like, well, what is next?
“We it is not sort of showed also a lot of that this year, so it is really pleasant because there it is a bit of do it it goes into that without it complicates that.
“Ohnce you put the pictures in front of the guys of why we are doing that, and here the opportunities, and they to buy in, and there it is a a lot that get right for that that happen. So we it is not actually get that everything right either, but yes, we will take it.”
