EARTHQUAKE HITS ALL BLACKS AND WALLABIES
September 6, 2010 in SPORTS
Australia rugby coach Robbie Deans and New Zealand co-coach Steve Hansen were both affected by the weekend’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake which hit New Zea land’s Canterbury province.
The historic Home Bush mansion, Canterbury home of Deans’ family for more than six generations, was effectively shaken apart by the quake. Like the Wallaby front row the entire house folded like a pack of cards. Robbie Deans was rather reserved on the issues when asked by an Ozy Mandias reporter earlier today. ” We just have to take it one day at a time. At this stage I won’t be making any major changes. We just need to make sure we have the support structures in places and try and build a foundation from there.” Rugby experts are still trying to determine if he is talking about his house or the Wallaby front row.
Just down the road the Hansen’s family home at Tai Tapu in rural Canterbury was also extensively damaged by Saturday’s tremor and Steve Hansen was equally as vague when he gave a statement from his Aussie base. Once again we have our team of rugby experts are trying to determine if he is talking about the dodgy All Black lineout or the Christchurch Earthquake. “Collectivelly, we are all working individually to move forward from this position. Obviously last week was a disaster of gigantic proportions but we are confident that is now over. We have made a couple of structural changes, particularly around the base of our tall timber and as a collective unit we are sure these will hold us up if we encounter anything like we had last week.”
As a show of friendship All Black coach Graham Henry has extended an invitation for Steve Hansen and Robbie Deans to stay at his house in Auckland until prefab buildings are erected at the Deans and Hansen residence. At this stage Hansen has already moved in,but, Deans is yet to reply to the invitation.