{"id":40352,"date":"2026-03-24T03:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/new-zealand-mike-blair-joins-dave-rennie-as-attack-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:28:53","slug":"new-zealand-mike-blair-joins-dave-rennie-as-attack-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/new-zealand-mike-blair-joins-dave-rennie-as-attack-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Mike Blair joins Dave Rennie as attack coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition to former Scotland scrum-half and British and Irish Lion Blair, Rennie has appointed former New Zealand captain Tana Umaga as defence coach, while Jason Ryan will continue as forwards coach and Neil Barnes will be senior assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil Healey, who has also worked with Rennie at Warriors and in Japan, is the new head of performance, while Tamati Ellison will be Maori All Blacks head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rennie said he has recruited a group who each have vast proven experience and are world-class in their specialist fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a very experienced and highly skilled coaching team,&#8221; Rennie said. &#8220;Each of these men has a track record of getting the best out of the players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blair and Healey will complete the current Japan Rugby League One season before moving to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mike will bring his innovative approach and attention to detail to our attack,&#8221; Rennie added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cr41l599lg9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to former Scotland scrum-half and British and Irish Lion Blair, Rennie has appointed former New Zealand captain Tana Umaga as defence coach, while Jason Ryan will continue as forwards coach and Neil Barnes will be senior assistant coach. Phil Healey, who has also worked with Rennie at Warriors and in Japan, is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40354,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352\/revisions\/40354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}