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Highlanders confirm head coach replacement for Aaron Mauger
By Online Editors
Former All Blacks first five-eighth Tony Brown has been announced as Aaron Mauger's replacement as Highlanders head coach.
The Country Sport Breakfast on Gold AM has revealed that Brown will take over the role next season.
Brown was an assistant under Mauger this year and has previously coached the Sunwolves and Otago. He was also an assistant for Japan under Jamie Joseph at last year's Rugby World Cup.
He also previously coached the Highlanders in 2017 when the side reached the quarter-finals.
The Otago Daily Times reports Brown has signed a two-year deal with the franchise before he will return to Japan for the 2023 World Cup campaign.
The Highlanders announced last month that they will not be renewing Mauger's contract, after the side finished fourth in Super Rugby Aotearoa.
Mauger took over the role at the start of 2018 on a three-year deal, replacing Brown and Joseph, both of whom had helped usher in an era of consistent finals appearances for the franchise.
Under Mauger, the Highlanders garnered 20 wins, 24 losses and four draws while making two quarter-final appearances in his first two seasons in charge in Dunedin.
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Thats exactly the criticism Ed, that it has already been done for generations. A strong SA, in many respects, should certainly help African rugby develop. You'd have to think they'd acclimatize much better being drawn to a pro SA club than say a European. Hopefully the fact theyve gone private (is that right Graham?) should enable this sort of change.
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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