Despite the All Blacks struggling against France and Italy, the coach Graham Henry thinks that the media need to pay his side just a little bit more respect. Marc Hinton, writing on Rugby Heaven, says that Henry remains defiant as ever.
"It was classic Graham Henry, and as a gauge on the pressure the All Blacks coach is feeling ahead of the looming, and possibly treacherous, Tri Nations competition it said it all.
Henry had been doing his best to lay the charm on for the media as he went through a long chat with a group of us after naming his Tri Nations squad in Auckland. And, to be fair, he was succeeding as he patiently covered off our various queries in an extensive, and largely relaxed, chat.
He was patently honest - sometimes brutally so in the case of Liam Messam - and refreshingly forthright. His All Blacks had not travelled well through the June internationals and now there was a lot of hope being pinned on a handful of returning linchpins. Henry was not hiding from any of the realities he faces. Rightly so."
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