Scott Robertson Out As All Black Coach

All Blacks coach Scott Robertson is out as the All Blacks coach after two years in the role. After a review of the 2025 season in which the All Blacks won 20 of their 27 tests, New Zealand Rugby has issued a statement saying Robertson will leave by mutual agreement. 

The All Blacks have matches starting in July with France, Italy and Ireland, and then have an eight match tour of South Africa which includes four tests. Ultimately the focus will now be on who will lead the All Blacks this year and next with the Rugby World Cup in Australia in 2027.

Draw for 2027 Rugby World Cup In Australia

The draw has been made for the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia. New Zealand has been selected in Pool A with Australia, but match dates will be unknown until 3rd February 2026.

Pool A: New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Hong Kong

Pool B: South Africa, Italy, Georgia, Romania

Pool C: Argentina, Fiji, Spain, Canada

Pool D: Ireland, Scotland, Uruguay, Portugal

Pool E: France, Japan, USA, Samoa

Pool F: England, Wales, Tonga, Zimbabwe.

All Blacks Finish Year With Win Over Wales

The All Blacks have beaten Wales 52-26 to end the year on a high after last weeks loss to England. The All Blacks scored seven tries, with doubles to wings Sevu Reece and Caleb Clarke, while Damian McKenzie was successful with all the conversions. 

All Blacks: 52 

Tries: Caleb Clarke 2, Ruben Love, Tamaiti Williams, Rieko Ioane, Sevu Reece 2, Conversions: Damian McKenzie 7, Penalty: McKenzie 

Wales: 26 

Tries: Tom Rogers 3, Louis Rees-Zammit, Conversions: Dan Edwards 3 

All Blacks Beaten By England

The All Blacks have suffered their first defeat of their Northern Tour with a 33-19 loss to England on Sunday morning. The All Blacks had led 12-0 early in the match with tries to winger  Leicester Fainga'anuku and hooker Codie Taylor, but England fought back to narrow the score to 12-11 at halftime. The second half was all England as the pressure mounted against the All Blacks, with errors and the sin-binning of Codie Taylor contributing.

All Blacks: 19

Tries: Leicester Fainga'anuku, Codie Taylor, Will Jordan , Conversions: Beauden Barrett, Damian McKenzie

England: 33

Tries: Ollie Lawrence, Sam Underhill, Fraser Dingwall, Henry Pollock, Conversions: George Ford 2, Penalty: Ford, Drop Goals: Ford 2 

All Blacks Beat Scotland

The All Blacks have beaten Scotland 25-17 in a close match at Murrayfield on Sunday morning. Scotland made a comeback in the second half after being down 17-0, with the All Blacks losing three different players to the sin-bin during the match.

New Zealand: 25

Tries: Cam Roigard, Will Jordan, Damian McKenzie, Conversions: Beauden Barrett 2, Penalties: Barrett, McKenzie

Scotland: 17

Tries: Ewan Ashman, Kyle Steyn, Conversions: Finn Russell 2, Penalty: Russell

All Blacks XV Beat Barbarians

The Jamie Joseph coached All Blacks XV have beaten the Barbarians 33-19 in Brentford.

After being down 19-7 at halftime with their only try to Caleb Tangitau, it was all the All Blacks XV in the second half. Tries to halfbacks Xavier Roe and replacement Kyle Preston, second five David Havili and a second to Tangitau sealed the match 

All Blacks XV: 33 

Tries: Caleb Tangitau 2, Xavier Roe, Kyle Preston, David Havili, Conversions: Josh Jacomb 4 

Barbarians: 19

Tries:  Asenathi Ntlabakanye, Evan Roos, Bongi Mbonambi, Conversions: Robert du Preez 2 

All Blacks Defeat Ireland In Chicago

The All Blacks have beaten Ireland 26-13 in Chicago, with three second half tries finishing off a come from behind victory.

The All Blacks had lost captain Scott Barrett in the opening minutes with a cut to the leg, and found themselves down 10-0 in the first quarter, before Ardie Savea scored their first try leaving them 10-7 behind at half time. Jordie Barrett had also left the field with a knee injury in the first half, and both he and brother Scott are in doubt for the next match against Scotland.

The final quarter of the match saw the comeback when Ireland started to struggle, with the reserves bench providing tries via Tamaiti Williams and Wallace Sititi, with halfback Cam Roigard also scoring in the final minutes to seal the match.

All Blacks: 26

Tries: Ardie Savea, Tamaiti Williams, Wallace Sititi, Cam Roigard, Conversions: Beauden Barrett 3

Ireland: 13

Try: Tadgh Furling, Conversion: Jack Crowley, Penalties: Crowley 2