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Rugby Australia announce three-man review panel as search for new Wallabies head coach beckons
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Former Wallaby and cricket administrator Pat Howard is part of a three-person panel who will review the Wallabies' 2019 season following their World Cup flop.
He will be joined by four-time Olympic rower Bo Hanson and 116-test Wallabies forward Nathan Sharpe.
Rugby Australia director Scott Johnson will also work alongside the group to deliver the review over the next month, which will be run separately to the process of appointing a new Wallabies coach.
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The review will involve interviewing all test players and staff and encompass the World Cup campaign as well as other internationals.
It will consider coaching, planning, athletic performance, campaign preparation, team cohesion and selection processes.
A former Wallabies playmaker with 20 test caps, Howard led Rugby Australia's High Performance Unit before joining Cricket Australia in 2011.
His most recent position there was as executive general manager of team performance, responsible for the Australian team's high-performance unit.
He was asked to step down late last year following critical review into Cricket Australia and the ball-tampering affair among a purge of senior administrators.
Hanson, who won three Olympic medals from his four campaigns between 1996 and 2004, is a director of an international business called Athlete Assessments.
He describes himself as an "international coaching consultant" and has worked previously with the Queensland Reds and Australian Sevens teams.
"will offer significant expertise and experience from both within and outside the sport and from both an on and off-field perspective".
"Having these three individuals leading the process will provide a well-rounded perspective on the Wallabies program and enable us to take forward any key learnings for delivery into the major tournament preparations of all of our national teams over the next four-year cycle."
AAP
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True, you might having something in this being their WC Final and not being able to last three big games in three weeks (ala RWC acclimatizing), that was Razor's impetus behind his selections and leadups/preparation for these first 3 weeks (for us).
With these guys being in the first two (into third) months of their season too.
Haha he certainly looked like he'd spoiled the party after the game too, we'll both have to expect he makes it up somehow 😁 I thought your 1 point win over them were the two best performances of the RWC, I think that was NZ's best performance this season too. Too bad we couldn't put a nail in the coffin like we did last week 😉
Go to commentsI know, it's going to be ugly.?! 😁
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