I seriously doubt this is a smart move.
I seriously doubt this is a smart move.
So moving onto the most pressing issue, who takes us on the EOYT.
Common sense says the current assistants will share the gig.
Another more exciting and credible option is to get the current S15 coaches to form a cartel and take us. Foley in charge of the forwards, Larkham the backs, Cheika can lead and Graham can be in charge of hydration.
Apparently Cheika has accepted, wants Bernie and Foley as assistants.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/a...s-wallabies-coaching-job-20141020-118spx.html
So the burning question, has Graham agreed to be the waterboy?
I wonder if Richard Graham has the balls to wonder out loud why no one has asked him to be coach.
I have to say I'm pretty fucking excited about Cheika, Larkham and Foley if it comes to fruition. That's a real quality trio for their roles.
Not sure how this is going to impact Super Rugby, but can't see it being positive. Can expect some dour derbies too with such shared knowledge. Advantage Rebels & Reds.
Who do they list as the business manager?according to wikkipaedia
KB (Kurtley Beale) is the new mens coach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Rugby_Union
You assume Cheika is a one trick pony. I think he showed this season he is not. But I am a little concerned at his complete lack of even assistant's experience at this level.Cheikas tahball is going to grind to a fucking halt when we are up against the blacks or boks or poms (at home). The lot of you will be begging for jakeball in 12 months.
It sounds like Pulver and the players/staff/board implicated in this whole sordid affair will shirk accountability (and may even be given preferential treatment).
What has changed apart from the coach/es? Is Cheika doomed to suffer the same fate as Deans and Link? If there was anything that we needed to take from this, it is that we need to get the whole house in order, from the players, up to the upper echelons of the ARU.
I hope Cheika is astute enough to know what he has got himself into, and whether he has been given free rein to knock some heads together. Otherwise it is just Groundhog Day all over again
Cheika is a great coach. Just hope he doesn't get Beale off the hook. Heard on news he has asked for him to stay. Maybe he knows there is no hope for KB (Kurtley Beale) and is using this to get the players onside.
What's Nick Mallett up to these days. I remember he took the Springboks on a 17 match unbeaten run. Outspoken sometimes to his detriment, coached Italy up to the last RWC, that's two international teams he's coached.
I can't imagine either of them - but especially Cheika - accepting that proposal. They both have egos. I'm sure they'd want to have more control than that would allow them.
I still don't buy it. Almost thirty years later and it's not an amateur game anymore.
I won't mind at all if I'm proven wrong, though.