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‘The most sought-after coach in the NRL’ joins Wallabies for World Cup
By AAP
Jason Ryles will make a shock return to the rugby union coaching ranks as an assistant with the Wallabies at next month's World Cup in France.
Wallabies coach Eddie Jones needed to replace attack coach Brad Davis, who surprisingly quit the squad for "family reasons" just before their departure from Australia.
Ryles was a skills coach with England under Jones but cut short his contract in 2021 after six months as he was working remotely, unable to relocate to the UK due to the coronavirus travel restrictions.
The 44-year-old hasn't worked as an attack coach, however Davis had similar credentials with Jones saying he was overseeing the program.
Before joining England Ryles worked with the Melbourne Storm and has signed a deal to rejoin the NRL club in November, knocking back the head coach role at St George Illawarra to do so.
As an assistant there he helped them to a premiership success in 2017 and two other grand final appearances, while he also played over 200 games in the NRL and for the Kangaroos.
After returning from England Ryles linked with the Sydney Roosters in 2022, but was axed midway through the current season with the club unhappy he was pursuing a senior coaching role.
Before the team's flight from Sydney on Thursday Jones said he was already in discussions about a replacement for Davis and vowed to "improve the coaching staff".
"Jason is the most sought-after coach in the NRL. He will add immensely to our coaching staff and help prepare the players to win the Rugby World Cup," Jones said in a statement on Friday.
"We are thrilled to have him join the team."
The Wallabies have another former NRL player in their coaching ranks, with Brett Hodgson in the defence coach role.
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I'm not sure about the Earl incident. I recall him missing an important tackle but he's certainly a quick flanker. SB has him cover centre when doing 6-2, fortunately we've never had to see how that would play out.
I'm not getting on board I'm afraid. The fact that England are scoring tries and being competitive despite being so amazingly disorganised and managing to lose every match is even more frustrating. The players front up and make a good account of themselves physically but the defence since Felix Jones is so much less organised. Players are flying out the line all over the place, there is no cohesion at all... And the attack... Literally it's just Marcus Smith.. and a bit of Feyi Waboso. Almost every player in the backline has done nothing offensively because the structure just isn't there for it, there's nothing creative or innovative to challenge the defense. The last 20 mins against the Boks it was just runners on crash ball off the 9, over and over getting smashed behind the gainline and turned over. These players are capable of doing much better.
We did score tries under Eddie but the backs didn't create anything. It worked well for a while but when we no longer had a big pack with the likes of Haskell and the Vunipolas playing well, it stopped working very rapidly. Once we started losing the gainline and couldn't exert so much pressure through bullying, they suddenly all looked clueless and we finished 5th in consecutive six nations.
I'd love to be on board, I've watched every game for the last 15 years and what I see is just super frustrating. It's groundhog day. The same mistakes over and over and no sign of progress. They've pushed some good sides close in this series but there is no acknowledgement of the issues, they keep saying how close they are and they're a growing team etc... he's been in charge for 2 years and has hundreds of caps in the side. This will end poorly, he's not the right guy, but thank you for trying.
Go to commentsGreat but players do play like Oz too BS!!
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