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Peter Fenwicke (45)
Morne Steyn?
Wallabies 2023
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rodha
Dave Cowper (27)
David Nuicifora has built an incredibly effective development system, has maximized returns with a small pool of players & enhanced the nation's overall depth ten-fold. He is the genius that Australian rugby don't deserve. His achievements with Ireland will almost certainly endure longer than anything Eddie has overseen...
Joe Blow
John Hipwell (52)
The Carter Gordon only experiment is officially a failure. Not on him BTW and hope he can recover and is not thrown on the scrap heap.
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Peter Fenwicke (45)
What does that have to do with throwing Morne Steyn in with Dan Carter and Jonny Wilkinson
Blasphemous
Goosestep
Jim Clark (26)
In one week, Lost his mullet and his starting lineup
HooperPocockSmith
Alfred Walker (16)
Surely, securing his services is the number 1 priority for RA going forward. I know that would assume some level of rationality on their behalf...
wamberal99
Jim Clark (26)
I have read somewhere that he has been approached and declined to negotiate. True or not, I do not know.
HooperPocockSmith
Alfred Walker (16)
Given they have announced the centralised model will go ahead, I do hope they get him on board in some consultancy role.
John S
Peter Fenwicke (45)
It has been said on numerous occasions in these forii that he has definitely declined to have anything to do with the Wallabies - and this is from interviews with him not just people on GAGR making stuff up
Derpus
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Who wouldn't want to leave an incredibly successful posting having helped turn Ireland into the best team in the world to work with a bunch of blazer wearing dickheads who are quickly turning Australia into a tier 2 nation?
Can't think of a single reason he wouldn't be interested - and that's before you take into consideration his own history here.
Can't think of a single reason he wouldn't be interested - and that's before you take into consideration his own history here.
Goosestep
Jim Clark (26)
Don’t blame him
footy1>31
Charlie Fox (21)
Structure of other countries is pretty irrelevant to what is happening in Australia. Not having to compete with league and Aussie rules would fix every single problem but with those continuing to seperate and be even more dominant the future is very grim, with the set-ups outside of elite private schools very difficult to cut through to any talent outside the system. Throwing names up good because it does seem RA is willing to compete financially however hard to see one person ever fixing things, at least they are trying through planned centralisation model, but at the end of the day extremely difficult to improve in elite level sport
Penriff_boy
Billy Sheehan (19)
You guys don't understand, the board needs a complete clean out. And no it's not trolling to say that.
rodha
Dave Cowper (27)
*At this stage... RA will be wretched & desperate after Australia crashes out in the quarters... so wouldn't rule it out entirely.
'Things need to change': RA embarks on strategic 'reset', in market for HPU manager
David Nucifora is not, at this stage, among the candidates to lead Rugby Australia's high performance overhaul as chief executive Phil Waugh unveiled the plan for an entire strategic "reset" and the pursuit of centralisation in the game.
www.espn.co.uk
"We're in market at the moment for a director of high performance, so we're going through an interview process.. we've spoken to him [Nucifora] because he's sort of a friend of Australian rugby, in terms of whether he has an appetite for that role, that is a question for David.
"But he's been in the system in Ireland for a long time and I think he's enjoying being back with less pressure, and less work time and travel. As I said he's a friend of Australian rugby, he's happy to help us, but currently not in the mix."
It is understood that if Nucifora did show an interest in leading the high-performance program, RA would consider him a strong candidate to the role he filled under a vastly different set of circumstances more than a decade ago.
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Derpus
Nathan Sharpe (72)
No it doesn't. It needed a cleanout 15 years ago. The blokes in there now are fine (giant EJ (Eddie Jones) shaped fuckup aside).
Tomthumb
Peter Fenwicke (45)
You’re optimistic
Joe Blow
John Hipwell (52)
Older 10s that steer their countries to decent RWC results……………and can kick goals at 90%. Show me a 3 test rookie who has done the same?
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Peter Fenwicke (45)
What World Cup has Morne Steyn ever steered anyone to?