John Hart
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474 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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I don't think the All Blacks had done a great job up to then in terms of bringing the media with them and taking them with them.
And I encouraged and...
Ultimately, Jane Dent joined my management team as the media relations person.
Well, I mean...
Jane was just a breath of fresh air.
First woman to be involved with the All Blacks.
That was a big step in itself for New Zealand rugby and for people to accept.
And she brought a real professionalism and we created a very different environment for the media to be part of what we were doing.
I was talking to Keith Quinn just the other day and he paid the group a great compliment.
He said that was life-changing in terms of the way the media were treated was that 96 tour and 96 season, but 96 tour particularly.
And Jane, I always say Jane's the best woman I ever appointed.
Yeah, well, of course, we got to Cape Town and we'd already won the Tri-Nations.
We'd beaten Australia twice and beaten South Africa and Christchurch.
So we actually had won it.
But yeah, the South Africans would say that, no, no, this is not part of a series because I think they were a bit wary.
And it was interesting, you know, I think back to Christchurch, Fitzy tells the story coming off the field and Mark Andrews, the big lock,
said to him you might have won today but wait until we get you on the high belt and they they were obviously on a high they'd won the 95 world cup they were on a high um so it was a huge challenge but we saw the first test as a vital game for us to win
whether they thought it was in the series or it wasn't in the series, it was a really vital game for us to make a statement.
And so even though the TriNations had been won, it was a hugely important game in the context of that tour.
Yeah, I think that's a really good point.
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