Dan Cleaver in the New Zealand Herald talks to the All Blacks' new coaching team.
The seeds of the Ian Foster-Steve Hansen partnership were sown more than a year ago when the Chiefs supremo was considering offers to take his mentoring skills offshore.
While the "Aussie and Fozzie Show" was unveiled only yesterday, Hansen and Foster had been in talks for much longer.
Hansen, Graham Henry's successor as All Blacks coach, used his powers of persuasion to convince Foster to stay in New Zealand to work on "special projects" until after the World Cup, rather than weigh up offers in Europe.
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