Graham Henry
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"Sir Graham William Henry" is a New Zealand rugby union coach, and former head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks.

He played rugby union for Canterbury Rugby Football Union/Canterbury and cricket for Canterbury cricket team/Canterbury and Otago Volts/Otago in the Plunket Shield. Henry was heavily criticized following the All Blacks quarterfinal exit at the 2007 Rugby World Cup and was controversially reappointed. He was vindicated, however, when the All Blacks won the 2011 Rugby World Cup final. and is one of the most successful coaches to have ever coached the All Blacks. On 1 November 2011, Henry announced he would be stepping down as All Blacks coach of 140 matches in a career that included a series victory over the tour British and Irish Lions in 2005, five Tri Nations (rugby union)/Tri Nations, three Grand Slam (rugby union)/Grand Slams and one Rugby World Cup title.

In 2012, Graham Henry joined Argentina as an advisor for the backroom coaching staff, and acted as an assistant coach to the Argentine Team. In 2013, he re-committed to Argentina for the 2013 Rugby Championship.

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The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

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I think they'll be keen to have a look, wouldn't they?

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A marvelous test match, right at the top end of international competition, I would have thought.

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If he's making positive progress we can hold on to the day of the game. It's still a 50-50 deal as to whether he will play or not.

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We would like him to start and will hold the door open as long as possible. If his ankle is no good, then we start Conrad Smith.

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Whether they do or not will be another story, we'll have to wait and see.

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Doug has played some outstanding rugby for Auckland recently, while Rico has played virtually every Super 12 and Test match since mid-February.

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We thought the fresh player would be a good option this week.

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We feel we were the better side; we constructed the tries to win the football game. But this great rivalry between the two sides is there again, which is great.

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