Judith Collins has vowed to keep the All Blacks clean-shaven if she's ever named coach.
The National Party MP told The AM Show on Friday the "silly little moustaches" many of the semi-final losers wore during the Rugby World Cup would be crushed like a boy racer's car if she takes over from Steve Hansen.
"Get focused on the job and win," she urged the side, who face Wales in a playoff for bronze this weekend.
"I'm pleased that some of them have now taken them off, because as soon as I see top sportspeople doing that stuff, I think good gracious - don't you know your job is to win? Play the game, just do it well.
"Always remember this - would Colin Meads or Brian Lochore have done that? The answer is no."
Despite both players' test careers spanning the famously hirsute late 1960s and early '70s, Newshub was unable to find any photos of either with any facial hair, let alone a full moustache or Sam Whitelock-style beard.
Labour MP Willie Jackson nominated Jamie Joseph, the former All Black who now coaches Japan.
"Did he put Japan to the quarter-finals? Did he take the no-name Highlanders to the Super 15 [title, 2015]? And who does Mark Richardson support? Ian Foster!"
But Richardson, sportsreader for The AM Show and former test cricketer, said he'd changed his mind after hearing Collins' vision.
"I've changed my opinion. I'm going Judith Collins for the next All Blacks coach."
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Jackson wasn't happy with this change of heart.
"This is the National Party show. I'm going to have a rethink about coming on next week."
Foster, the current assistant coach, is widely tipped to take the reins from the retiring Steve Hansen after the playoff this weekend. Hansen was an assistant coach to Graham Henry before taking over in 2011.
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