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Wayne Pivac is back in rugby eight months after his Wales exit
By PA
Former Wales boss Wayne Pivac has been appointed head coach of Japanese side NEC Green Rockets. Pivac, 60, has been out of work since leaving his post with Wales in December 2022.
“It is a great honour and a privilege to be able to work alongside some fantastic people at NEC Green Rockets,” Pivac said on the club’s official website.
“Our slogan, ‘always above’, embodies everything we will be about throughout the 2023/24 season as we rebuild to be better and stronger than we have been in past seasons. We will be striving to return to the top division of Japanese rugby.
“Along the way we want to give our supporters plenty to cheer about with an exciting brand of rugby.”
Pivac was appointed Wales head coach in 2019 after a successful five-year spell with the Scarlets. He led Wales to the 2021 Six Nations title when only a last-gasp France try in Paris deprived them of a Grand Slam.
But Pivac was replaced by his predecessor and fellow New Zealander Warren Gatland after winning only three Tests from 12 in 2022.
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The England backs can't be that dumb, he has been playing on and off for the last couple of years. If they are too slow to keep up with him that's another matter.
He was the only thing stopping England from getting their arses handed to them in the Aussie game. If you can't fit a player with that skill set into an England team then they are stuffed.
Go to commentsSteve Borthwick appointment was misguided based on two flawed premises.
1. An overblown sense of the quality of the premiership rugby. The gap between the Premiership and Test rugby is enormous
2. England needed an English coach who understood English Rugby and it's traditional strengths.
SB won the premiership and was an England forward and did a great job with the Japanese forwards but neither of those qualify you as a tier 1 test manager.
Maybe Felix Jones and Aled Walter's departures are down to the fact that SB is a details man, which work at club level but at test level you need the manager to manage and let the coaches get on and do what they are employed for.
SB criticism of players is straight out of Eddie Jones playbook but his loyalty to keeping out of form players borne out of his perceived sense of betrayal as a player.
In all it doesn't stack up as the qualities needed to be a modern Test coach /Manager
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