Rugby Championship: All Blacks sticking to process after loss, says assistant coach Ian Foster

Assistant coach Ian Foster insists it's "business as usual" as they look to wash the bitter after taste of defeat from their mouths in Buenos Aires this weekend.

Losing isn't a notion which sits well with any side, let alone a team which experiences it as little as the world champions have this decade.

But after their dramatic defeat to the Springboks in Wellington, Foster said there'd been no deviation from their standard processes of post-match review, where the focus is on analysis of the performance and the outcome almost irrelevant.

"Yes, it feels a bit worse after a loss," said Foster. "But you've got to get over that and get back into the process to find what are the key things we need to do to perform better.

"We’ve always said we try to keep our processes as consistent as possible. What we’re trying to do is review a performance, not just a result.

"It does add a little bit when you're coming off a poor performance, and the fact that it also equated to a loss was a bit of a double whammy.

"It's been a good time. We've pulled a few things apart and we're pretty happy with where we've got to."

Foster said they'd clearly identified their areas of weakness in that 36-34 loss to South Africa and while he was reluctant to discuss too many specifics, was encouraged by what he'd seen in their first training session since touching down on South American soil.

"Everyone was jumping out of their skins to get on the paddock and have a good blowout today.

"We've been pretty open about how we felt that game went and now it's just a matter of learning from that and going forward. We've spoken about our game management.

"Our art is to try to make as many good decisions as we can and sometimes you have to weight those decisions up on the risk and the reward, and we were probably a bit too high on the risk side with some of those things.

"It's been a great learning process working though that, and now we've just got to go and show now that we have learned some lesson."

They'll be looking to do that against an Argentina side which is riding high after their historic win over Australia on the Gold Coast.

"We've always enjoyed watching Argentina play…with plenty of passion and heart, and a lot of skill.

"They're playing with a lot of belief and a lot of confidence in their game

"In some ways we've been delighted they've got the results they’ve been striving for, and our goal now is to make sure they don't get another one."

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