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Train Without a Station
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Yes.
Re Jake White. Another indirect compliment to his considerable skills is that despite his emotive, rushed departure from the Brumbies, he clearly left an institutional legacy of quality in terms of both his continuing coaching group and the new total rugby program and group culture he instituted at the Brumbies from 2012 onwards.
Or maybe the people around him were just better and able to maintain the standards of his time after he left, where as at QLD they were not.
Surely TWAS, that is the point re how institutions show their quality (or otherwise) in managing key-to-future-success succession matters!
IIRC White brought Larkham back to the Brumbies in 2012, along with reviving L Fisher's role there. In the first instance, these two men took over post-White and most would agree performed the joint Head Coach role very well, and Larkham post-Fisher's departure has done an equal and perhaps even better job, along with being appointed to the Wallabies' role.
Mean time, the Link/QRU combo appointed Graham and have persisted with him through thick and thin.
The comparative outcome being that the White/ACTRU combo has demonstrably, unquestionably done a better job of critical succession management planning than the Link/QRU combo.
You phrased it as though White had set it up better for succession.
In fact you even reference it still now as both the QRU and Link persisting with Graham.