Wrong… he spent his first 5 months in Australia following the club rugby scene not too mention scouring rugby league…

Dumbass… you can quote your watered down stats till the cows come home… but…

He won the 3N in his first year… fact!
The IRB voted him the IRB coach of the year not once but twice… fact!
No other RSA coach has achieved that nor has won both the 3N and the RWC… fact!

And the Aussie rugby public and media are now in awe of his nouse… he (and his Brumbies) average more than an article a day in the main rugby rags… particularly as he went 1-0 in both the mind-games with McKenzie and on the scoreboard…

And now that same battle starts with their next best coach namely Cheika and his Waratahs…

Oh Transformation! No wonder you ‘never’ provide sources for your ubiquitous cut-n-pastes… you ‘selectively’ omitted this first part… and the last part… wonder why that was?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/sport-active/how-to-train-like-a-brumby/story-fnc9wiz4-1226541377405

“WHEN Jake White arrived at the Brumbies last season, he went searching for an edge.

Once the dominant force in Australian rugby, the departure of greats George Gregan, Stephen Larkham, Joe Roff, George Smith, Jeremy Paul and Stirling Mortlock had left the Canberra-based organisation battling for relevance and struggling on the field.

“The big question facing us was how we compete with the big-city markets of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne,” White says.

“We can’t compete with the corporate dollar. We don’t have the beaches or the nightlife of those bigger cities. So what could we offer them others could not?

“So we went about creating the most professional environment possible – the ideal training base for a young player wanting to get the absolute most out of themselves as professional rugby players.”

With that in mind, the World Cup-winning South African coach hired respected former Brumbies head coach Laurie Fisher as his senior assistant and former Wallabies legend Larkham to work with the backs.”

Oops and then this…

“But, as the saying goes, the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary, and work the Brumbies’ staff and players did in the lead-up to the 2012 season.

For almost two weeks, Benton and White led the players on a massive renovation of the South Canberra bowling club, transforming it from a dilapidated eyesore to a fully furnished team headquarters, complete with kitchen and dining room, sleeping rooms, hot and cold rehab station, boardroom, meeting and video rooms and gymnasium.

“It’s like our mini rugby institute,” says boom winger Joe Tomane.

“Everything we need is right here. We don’t have to go off site at all.

“Everyone put a lot of work into it to get it looking decent, and Jake made a point of getting us to take some ownership of it and to take some pride in looking after it.”

Aware they did not boast the talent or experience to compete with rival Super Rugby franchises, White and Benton devised a training program heavily focused on athletic development.

Basically, they wanted their squad to be fitter and faster than any opponent they faced.

To do this meant applying a brutal pre-season program, with players allowed just one day off a week – and then only if skin-fold measurements and fitness targets were met.

To ensure the players were getting the necessary rest and replenishment to cope with the demands of their training load, a team chef was employed to prepare breakfast and lunch for the playing group.

Nothing was left to chance.

Beds were set up for players to rest in the middle of the day – the routine and rest helping to ensure training intensity remained as high in the afternoon as it was in the morning.

Brumbies skipper Ben Mowen says: “Well, I have been a part of both the Queensland and NSW camps and, with no disrespect to them, the things I have learned just over one year here – it’s been incredible.

“I am lighter, leaner and faster than I have ever been in my career, but I am lifting weights 10 and 15 per cent heavier.

“I guess the best way to put it is I actually feel like a professional athlete these days.

“I guess, before, I don’t know that I looked at myself that way.”

The Brumbies finished 2011 with only four wins and in second-last position in the Australian conference – ahead of only newcomers the Melbourne Rebels.

In 2012, they won 10 games and missed out on the finals by the slimmest of margins.

Evidence White’s revolution has worked, but proof more work is needed.”

Oh Transy!

Coached by McKenzie, the Queensland Reds were the only Australian franchise to earn a play-off berth for coming top of the Australian Conference, finishing on 58 points with the Brumbies, but winning on a countback with 11 wins to 10 in the regular season.

But the Reds were Super Rugby champions last year, and failed to defend their title.

The Brumbies were close to last in 2011, yet went within a whisker of making this season’s play-off, thanks to their new coach, South Africa’s 2007 Rugby World Cup winning Jake White.

Which begs the question: should the coach of the year award go to the best-performed in that season, or the coach who made the greatest improvement in his franchise over the previous year?

In other words, McKenzie or White?

It was very significant that McKenzie was quick to praise White in his acceptance speech. No surprise in that: McKenzie is at all times an open book and totally honest – a breath of fresh air.

He’s one of the most respected Super Rugby coaches in the tournament’s history.

By naming White so strongly, McKenzie was virtually saying the South African deserved the recognition more than he did. And I agree.

The Brumbies were a basket-case when White took over, a franchise that had been torn apart by insipid player-power and ordinary administration.

Almost overnight, White changed the culture and the Canberra-based franchise played a lot of attractive and attacking rugby in 2012. So much so that they led the Australian Conference for almost the entire tournament, until the wheels fell off in the last two rounds.

Steve Walsh is a very different kettle of fish.

Kiwi born and bred, Walsh crossed the ditch in 2009 to become an Australian citizen and is employed by the ARU.

SANZAR now recognises Walsh as an Australian, which is categorically and legally true.

But that recognition will be really tested when the referee for the Super Rugby final is selected, which will definitely be between a South African team and a New Zealand side, on the neutral referee basis that precludes the world’s best rugby referee – South African Craig Joubert, who controlled the 2011 Rugby World Cup final – from being appointed.

Walsh will be refereeing the semi-final between the Stormers and Sharks at Newlands early Sunday morning AEST, which should make him a laydown misere to control the final.

But for the vast majority of his life – 37 out of 40 years – Walsh has been a New Zealander. And there’s no other Australian born and bred referee good enough to fill the bill.

Catch 22.

All of which made for an intriguing presentation lunch in Sydney yesterday.

Reds half-back Will Genia won his second successive player of the year award by a point over David Pocock, Scott Higginbotham, and Christian Lealiifano; and the Reds won the try of the year engineered by winger Dom Shipperley, and the team of the year, dominating the luncheon with four of the six awards.

The rookie of the year went to Brumby back Joe Tomane, who was on crutches.

If there was an award for the quote of the presentation, Tomane would have won that too.

“This time last year I was running around Ipswich playing social rugby. The move to Canberra was good because there’s nothing to do in Canberra.

“And that’s what I like doing. Nothing”.

inShare

Increase Text Size
Decrease Text Size
Print
Email

Man with a plan … White’s four-year Brumbies blueprint took shape a little earlier than most expected.
Related Coverage
Smith signing another White wonder
FoxSports, 15 hours ago
Clarkie: round two of No.7 showdown
FoxSports, 7 days ago
Brumbies press conference
FoxSports, 9 days ago
Pocock leads Brumbies to victory
FoxSports, 10 days ago
Brumbies look to bottle up Cooper
FoxSports, 10 days ago
Brumbies coach Jake White should have been named the Australian Super Rugby Coach of the Year, despite Queensland Reds finishing higher on the table.

Reds coach Ewen McKenzie claimed back-to-back awards alongside star Reds halfback Will Genia – who was named Player of the Year – at the Australian Super Rugby Awards in Sydney on Thursday.

On the face of it – and as the ARU always rewards the highest-finishing coach – the Australian conference standings suggest McKenzie deserved the award.

But looking beyond the hard results – the Reds finished with one more victory than the Brumbies – surely White’s transformation of the Canberra-based franchise carries greater significance.

The South African took charge in Canberra after a horror 2011 season in which one coach was sacked and another launched an extraordinary post-match attack on the entire Brumbies organisation.

The Brumbies were the first side to be beaten by Melbourne Rebels, and they lost at home to the competition’s perennial strugglers, the Lions.

It was rock bottom.

After taking the reins midway through last year, White began to talk of a four-year plan for the Brumbies and his vision to return the club to the glory days from the start of the century.

Catch the Super Rugby semi-finals Live and in HD on Fox Sports! Tune into Fox Sports 3HD and Fox Sports 3 from 5:30pm (EST) Friday to see the Chiefs v Crusaders and then Fox Sports 1HD and Fox Sports 1 at 1:00am (EST) Sunday for the Stormers v Sharks clash!

But after even just a few matches, it was clear things were well ahead of schedule.

His decision to appoint Ben Mowen as captain drew criticism. It worked.

Rookies such as Jesse Mogg and Joe Tomane were introduced with immediate effect, while fringe players such as Nic White, Sam Carter and Andrew Smith were given the confidence they needed to succeed.

Former coach Laurie Fisher was brought back into the fold to give the forwards an edge, while it was easy to see Stephen Larkham’s influence on the backline – particularly on Christian Lealiifano.

There were victories in South Africa and New Zealand, and six wins out of eight against their Australian conference rivals.

In the end, the feel-good story of the season wasn’t to be as the Brumbies suffered a brain fade in their final-round clash with the Blues in Canberra.

The Reds took advantage of the Brumbies’ slip-up, sneaking into the play-offs by a solitary point.

That results means little now after the Reds were beaten by the Sharks in Brisbane in the qualifying finals.

Would the Brumbies have done any better? Who knows?

Is White angry he missed out on the Coach of the Year Award? Almost certainly not.

But his effort in lifting the Brumbies from 13th to seventh in just one season – ensuring the Australian conference wasn’t a complete laughing stock in the process – deserves another mention.

And if we’re to look beyond the final ladder, probably a little trophy too.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/brumbies-coach-jake-white-deserved-to-win-australian-super-rugby-coach-of-the-year-award/story-e6frfkp9-1226435905939#ixzz2M5fxjyPo

Since Super 12 (Games-Win-Loss-Draw-Win%)
Rod McQueen – 1996–1997 (24-16-8-0-67%)
Eddie Jones – 1998–2001 (48-28-20-0-58%)
David Nucifora – 2002–2004 (38-24-14-0-63%)
Laurie Fisher – 2005–2008 (50-28-20-2-56%)
Andy Friend – 2009–2011 (28-17-11-0-61%)
Tony Rea – 2011 (14-3-11-0-21%)
Jake White – 2012–present (7-8-5-0-62%)

Current forwards coach Laurie Fisher was sacked for failing to get the team to perform and Larkham was attack coach under Tony Rea, who was brought in as interim coach after Andy Friend was sacked in 2011 – and achieved a magnificent 21% winning record.

So who turned this Titanic around?

Should the current success of the Brumbies be attributed to two assistant coaches who failed to perform previously, or to the head coach whose arrival has totally transformed their fortunes – lifting them from 13th spot to seventh (and it could have been much more)?

Only a desperate man with an axe to grind would say White doesn’t deserve the credit.

Played NZ 10 – won 3 lost 7
Played France 4 – won 1 lost 2 drawn 1
Played Ireland away 2 – lost 2
Played England away 3 – won 1 lost 2

Biggest international loss by a Springbok team in the Springbok historical record books 0-49 – 7 tries to zero

Anybody still thinking Jake the fake is anywhere remotely akin to a decent hands on rugby coach who only came good after he bailed out of the coaching role and handed it to his friend and mentor Jones don’t know what a good hands on rugby coach is.

He has belatedly learned that there are other far more astute rugby coaches available so all he has to do is pull the right strings make the right noises and put on a decent show of pretence and everyone will believe that the conglomerate effect is all down to his astronomical ability as a defunct hands off rugby genius.

Well he is from CT… the home of the ‘Gatsby’…

Your statement that he can’t coach is retarded in its ignorance.

Top 3 turnovers all No 2s.

Then the Cheetahs had the most linebreaks as a team, but don’t feature on these stats. Guess the refs made the breaks for them.