"The Bledisloe's always a highlight of the year for us and we've been watching from afar the French series," Foster said after naming his squad for the Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n
The new home of rugby, Stan Sport, is the only place to watch the Bledisloe Cup, Rugby Championship and Lions tour with ad-free, live & on demand coverage<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n "Plenty of drama and controversy, but it's been a tight series and Aussie are probably feeling pretty good about themselves.<\/p>\n "When you get through tight games, you learn a bit about yourselves and I'm sure they're feeling good about that."<\/p>\n Foster managed to retain the Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship in his first season at the All Blacks helm last year.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Morgan Turinui's Wallabies work-ons for Bledisloe<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Koroibete free to play after controversial red card<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> France captain called out for ultimate rugby sin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n But a first loss to Argentina was a major black mark on his record and performances have often been underwhelming in the eyes of a demanding, rugby-mad public.<\/p>\n Foster, who is off contract at the end of the season, had some interesting observations about the Wallabies in year two under Dave Rennie – the man who replaced him as Chiefs coach in 2012.<\/p>\n "They want to play a confrontational type game, they want to do a lot of stuff at the breakdown to disrupt your flow of ball and if you're not accurate there, you get into a bun fight," Foster said, adding that lopsided matches against Tonga and Fiji were still valuable.<\/p>\n "We learned the formula about our ball carrying and our cleaning.<\/p>\n "We made some steps there and that's vital when you go into an Australian series, because it's an area that they clearly attack at the breakdown, with guys who want to have a crack at the ball on the ground."<\/p>\n Foster also revealed that he had been specifically training with 14 men to prepare for scenarios like Australia faced with Marika Koroibete's red card in the series decider.<\/p>\n "I sent Brodie Retallick off the training park last Thursday," Foster said.<\/p>\n "I was thinking he was going to come up and smack me because he didn't think he justified getting a red card.<\/p>\n "But we work through those scenarios \u2013 and often your ability to adapt as a team is not so much dependent on your own tactics, it's actually on how the other opposition plays.<\/p>\n "We've learnt the last couple of years playing Aussie with 14 men is not easy to do, because they're very much a fast ruck-and-run team and eventually they'll expose that\u2026 the French probably didn't play that way."<\/p>\n There were no real surprises in Foster's 36 man squad, which will be captained by Sam Whitelock as Sam Cane continues to recover from serious injury.<\/p>\n It also features the return of senior halfback TJ Perenara, who had a sabbatical in Japan and flirted with a NRL switch before recommitting to New Zealand rugby.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/RugbyOnNine\/status\/1416996366858047488?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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