New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen was furious with a journalist’s question after the England defeat, even offering to ‘take them outside’.
The 60-year-old was unhappy about being questioned if the All Blacks turned up with the right attitude for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup semi-final.
He said: “I think it’s quite a disrespectful question, to suggest that the All Blacks turned up not being hungry.
“They’re desperate to try and win the game. Because I asked them at half-time to get hungrier doesn’t mean to say they didn’t up for the game.
“There’s a big difference and if you want to spend some time outside I’ll give you a rugby education on that one.
“But to turn up and say an All Blacks team comes to a semi-final of the Rugby World Cup with the amount of ability and the history that it’s had behind it, that’s not hunger.
“That’s a pretty average question I reckon.
“You’ve seen how hard we’ve worked out there. Definitely the boys really wanted it.
“I think that the detail of the match didn’t go our way but our work-rate and how much we really wanted it was there.
“You could see it even in that first-half when we conceded; we came back and hung in there.
“Tonight is pretty gutting. When it doesn’t go your way it’s a hard thing to take.”
