For Henry, the clock is ticking ... (again)

He’s gone from being the most reviled man in New Zealand to the most in-demand and back to the most pressurised. At 65, why does Graham Henry still do it, asks Murray Kidd.

ALL BLACK coach Graham Henry has trodden a slow and steady path to the 2011 Rugby World Cup and until the 25-20 Bledisloe Cup loss to Australia the plan had pretty much played out as intended.

After the RWC 2007 quarter-final defeat to France in Cardiff there was a lengthy period when Henry was the most reviled man in New Zealand, the nation’s collective wrath as great as that which his predecessors John Hart and John Mitchell had been subjected to.