The Dominion Post's Toby Robson looks at Steve Hansen's appointment as All Blacks boss.
"It was more a coronation than a contest, an inheritance rather than an appointment.
There were no gasps when Steve Hansen walked into the Ernest Hobin room at the New Zealand Rugby Union's headquarters yesterday.
Of course, we already knew who the All Blacks' new head coach would be, had done since the final whistle blew on the Rugby World Cup final.
In the end the New Zealand Rugby Union only formally interviewed one man despite plenty of vim and bluster about how "robust" the process had been.
That's no fault of the New Zealand Rugby Union because there weren't really any other convincing candidates. But it all added up to a fairly flat beginning. And there-in lies Hansen's biggest challenge."
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