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January 16th 2009 @ 2:48am
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Nucifora returns to coaching
Former Super 12 winner David Nucifora will return to the coaching ranks at the helm of the Australian under-20s for the IRB junior world championship later this year.
Nucifora, the Australian Rugby Union’s high performance unit boss, will add the coaching duties to his regular job for the June 5-21 tournament to be held in Japan.
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LeftArmSpinner said | January 16th 2009 @ 6:07am | Report comment
This has JON’s fingerprints all over it. More cost effective by getting existing employees to do more, developing youngsters for the future, including the coaches of promise and tapping into a proven international coach who will be pushing, presumably for the next Wallabies coach.
Yikes said | January 16th 2009 @ 8:50pm | Report comment
Yikes. While appearances can be deceiving, Nucifora appears to be a piece of work. The Brumbies hated him, the Blues hated him, half the HPU unit at ARU hates him, he’s just canned Australia A and now – surprise! – has appointed himself to coach Australia U20, in the past often a coaching job for an up-and-coming coach, not a well-established S14 coach.
I agree this is partially a cost saving mechanism. But still…