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Tahs to Appoint Talent Scout
The Waratahs are set to appoint an NRL-style talent scout to ensnare the top players from across NSW (to start with), focussing on the Shute Shield clubs, which coach Michael Cheika says he’d like to turn into ‘little academies’.
‘I’m telling you there are players in that competition who can come and play in our team,’ Cheika said. ‘We can download our expertise into them and they can use what they want from that to produce players and get rewarded for producing players.’
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Kiss in charge of Ireland
Ireland Coach Declan Kidney has been boned and temporarily replaced by former Tahs defence coach Les Kiss for the team’s tour of the United States and Canada in June. Kidney won a grand slam with the Ireland team in 2009 and was judged coach of the year, but in this year’s Six Nations competition Ireland only avoided the wooden spoon by points difference.
Names associated with the empty coach’s spot include Joe Schmidt and Ewen McKenzie.
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Brumbies cosy up to Suntory
The chances of George Smith staying for longer at the Brumbies and being available for the Wallabies against the Lions appeared to strengthen with the news that three Suntory coaches are receiving mentoring at the Brumbies this week.
The arrangement was at the behest of Japan coach Eddie Jones and includes Suntory’s new backline coach, Peter ‘H-Bomb’ Hewat.
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Tweet of the day
“@mattrowley_: @heathtessmann How the nose and future modeling career?”Both of them have been put on ice …
— Heath R Tessmann (@heathtessmann) April 1, 2013
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