‘Reds, Wallabies or nothing’
10 Nov 2011
Reds boss Ewen McKenzie says only a Wallabies head coach job offer will lure him away from the Queensland franchise.
There were post-World Cup rumours that McKenzie would join Robbie Deans’ management team or accept a move abroad. However, the Super Rugby-winning coach has confirmed that he will commit to his current contract with the Reds, which only expires at the end of 2013.
‘It [the Wallabies head coach post] sits there as a job that might be nice to do at some point but I don’t sit there and covet it,’ McKenzie told smh.com.au. ‘It will always come up at some point in time and you have to be doing well at that point of time and they have to like you, and that changes. So, we’ll see. I’m not worried about it because in the end I’ve got a good job and a job I enjoy.’
Reds CEO Jim Carmichael said he expects McKenzie to succeed Robbie Deans one day – but at the right time.
‘We’ve got ambitions for him as well, but he’s got a job to do here and all in good time,’ Carmichael said, adding that the Wallabies job was the only one McKenzie would potentially be released for.
‘It’s Wallabies or Reds or nothing. We have both a formal and a philosophical agreement of where we want this to go.’
McKenzie led the Waratahs to the 2005 and 2008 Super Rugby finals before winning the competition with the Reds last season. He turned the opportunity to coach the Wallabies in 2005 down before losing out to Robbie Deans in 2007.
15 Comments
10 Nov 2011, 10:20 am
Red or Gold Dragon?
10 Nov 2011, 10:29 am
okay
so it has to be either Mallet
mitchell
heyneke
or
b venter
10 Nov 2011, 10:30 am
well, he is one foreigner i would back for bok coach.
10 Nov 2011, 10:32 am
Ewen is a clever bugger.
Robbie with his under 60% overall winning ratio and mediocre 40% in 3N, including the dubious honour of winning the title in RWC year, can only go one way.
Any improvement Kudos will go to Robbie and at the same time take out Ewen as a contender.
Any further back sliding by the Aus will go against Robbie, but do bugger all god for McKenzie.
Best idea is to keep well out of it.
Amd that is all before we even take into consideration the ego’s that are involved here.
10 Nov 2011, 10:39 am
strange how no one wants to coach the boks..
PDV may get it by default
10 Nov 2011, 10:40 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-5: eish – now you’ve ruined my day! :Lol:
10 Nov 2011, 10:44 am
@Staal(Staal)-6: i wont tell you that aussie havent lost a wicket yet today oops
10 Nov 2011, 10:46 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-7: i can handle anything….except PDV as coach!
10 Nov 2011, 11:33 am
Ewen did a fantastic job of cleaning up the mess that Judas Jones left.
Surely it is only a matter of time before he supplants Dingo Deans.
10 Nov 2011, 12:15 pm
what is the deal with deans? When does his contract end?
10 Nov 2011, 12:18 pm
@Jeez(Jeez)-10:
A few months prior to the RWC, (won by NZ), O’Neil signed Deans up for at least another two years.
10 Nov 2011, 12:58 pm
He has to say that. Please man, he’d never turn down the chance of winning a World Cup with real contenders
10 Nov 2011, 18:56 pm
poppa69 – SARU should just advertise the job and wait for the applicants to send in their cv’s, that is how professionalism works. What is SARU so anal?
Personally i would rather have Eddie Jones running the show or a duo of AC & Eddie Jones. He is already familiar with the Boks!
10 Nov 2011, 20:00 pm
This oke is THE best rugga coach on the planet right now he knows everything about it and what he want and what he don’t and exactly where all the boundaries and the limits are… how far to stretch the envelope, and how to prime a team.. this Oke woulda got the Wallabies to be THE main mean machine…
Between Mckenzie and Mitchell you got the 2 best coaches on the planet but this Mack the Knife he just that little bitty sharper even than Mitch the matchmaker…
11 Nov 2011, 12:35 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-5: Not strange at all.
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