Wallabies 2023

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Does he have any interest in being involved in coaching?

 

[rodha]

Does he have any interest in being involved in coaching?

He could probably coach Eddie... in the art of man-management.

Ewen was always the better manager, Jones is a technical coach.

 

[John S]

He could probably coach Eddie... in the art of man-management.

Ewen was always the better manager, Jones is a technical coach.

I'll buy that. But don't think he's got any interest in coming back - at least I've heard that said here a few times, so someone has some info

 

[whitefalcon]

McKellar and Du Plessis have both resigned

 

[qwerty51]

Not sure there’s any good forwards coaches available, surely just picks one of the Super coaches, good news is that at least Cron and Thorn would be specialist forwards coaches too.

 

[Highlander35]

Love Petrus as an individual and player but not certain he's a huge loss as a coach.

 

[rodha]

McKellar and Du Plessis have both resigned

Simon Cron and Dan Palmer come on in!

 

[Dctarget]

Apparently Du Plessis was offered to stay but decided to move on.

 

[Slim 293]

Apparently Du Plessis was offered to stay but decided to move on.

Not according to Doran…

News of du Plessis’ resignation comes as no surprise either, with the South African-born scrum coach never likely to survive once Rennie was shown the door.

Indeed, even before Rennie was cut adrift Rugby Australia were seriously considering axing him regardless.

 

[Adam84]

Not according to Doran…

Horses mouth

 

[Jimmy_Crouch]

Gee I'd prefer to see Peter Breen come in for skills over BB (or even Gits over BB). Surely Palmer will come in for scrums.

Trying to think of other names maybe Hoiles (if they patch up their differences after that stunt a few years back)

 

[rodha]

Love Petrus as an individual and player but not certain he's a huge loss as a coach.

Rennie is the winner to come out of this. Great Wallabies coach unfortunately hamstrung by poor assistants - unlike Eddie and Robbie who during their Wallabies tenures had two of Australia's best rugby minds (McKenzie and Nuicifora) as their assistant coaches.

be interesting to see if Eddie can find his McKenzie 2003 equivalent assistant as he'll need it to replicate those heights again.

 

[Jimmy_Crouch]

John Mulvihill, Les Kiss and Andy Friend? Tate came out and said McKay has taken a step back so is he a chance for a different environment

 

[RugbyReg]

John Mulvihill, Les Kiss and Andy Friend? Tate came out and said McKay has taken a step back so is he a chance for a different environment

A step back to focus on kicking game and counter attack.

 

[qwerty51]

Rennie is the winner to come out of this. Great Wallabies coach unfortunately hamstrung by poor assistants - unlike Eddie and Robbie who during their Wallabies tenures had two of Australia's best rugby minds (McKenzie and Nuicifora) as their assistant coaches.

be interesting to see if Eddie can find his McKenzie 2003 equivalent assistant as he'll need it to replicate those heights again.

Must be nice to be considered great at 38%

 

[Dctarget]

This is not going to be much help but there was a guy Eddie mentioned in his podcast last week who’s likely to be joining him coaching I think, can’t remember the name tho

 

[RugbyReg]

This is not going to be much help but there was a guy Eddie mentioned in his podcast last week who’s likely to be joining him coaching I think, can’t remember the name tho

Former AFL coach. Oversaw High Performance and RFU. Neil Craig.

 

[stillmissit]

I see Larkham is starting Debreczeni over Lolesio, so there is another hat in the wallaby 10 spot if he goes well.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Gee I'd prefer to see Peter Breen come in for skills over BB (or even Gits over BB). Surely Palmer will come in for scrums.

Trying to think of other names maybe Hoiles (if they patch up their differences after that stunt a few years back)

Not sure about Hoiles at this stage. 1 year in MLR and now starting at Randwick which seems to be a revolving door of 1st grade coaches over the last few years.

Palmer seems like the obvious choice through availability and the chance this would give him to further his own development.

I'd thrown names out there like Justin Harrison before, but another might be Turinui who has some experience at Super Rugby level and many hold in high regard.

 

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Not sure about Hoiles at this stage. 1 year in MLR and now starting at Randwick which seems to be a revolving door of 1st grade coaches over the last few years.

Palmer seems like the obvious choice through availability and the chance this would give him to further his own development.

I'd thrown names out there like Justin Harrison before, but another might be Turinui who has some experience at Super Rugby level and many hold in high regard.

As in Harrison for forwards coach? Agree with Hoiles needs to do more of an apprenticeship, Heenan did a decade before a Super Rugby call up