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Coachless Fiji offer top job to Scott Robertson

Head coach of the Crusaders Scott Robertson looks on ahead of the Super Rugby trial match for the 2023 Farmlands Cup between the Crusaders and the Highlanders at Valley Rugby Club on February 10, 2023 in Oamaru, New Zealand. (Photo by Joe Allison/Getty Images)

Currently coachless Fiji have offered a Test role to much sought-after Crusaders head coach Scott Robertson.

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Vern Cotter dramatically split ways with the Flying Fijians at the start of the month, just eight months out from the Rugby World Cup in France.

Matters got worse for the union a week later with news that assistant coach Richie Gray was also leaving, saying that he considered he had to exit from ‘an integrity point of view’ after the departure of Cotter.

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It’s left Fiji looking for a head coach and now the FRU acting chief executive Tevita Tuiloa has said he has offered the job to Robertson.

‘I know he’s a surfer so I told him look you can come to cloud break in Tavarua and come and surf some clouds, some barrels, some big waves there and come and coach the Flying Fijians, we’ll give that to you for free and you can help our boys reach the quarterfinals,” joked Tuiloa.

It may be of a hail Mary on the FRU’s part, but it would offer Robertson Test experience in the biggest rugby arena of them all. The process of head-hunting the next Flying Fijians head coach is set to get wrapped up in the next few weeks.

It would dovetail nicely with Robertson’s current role as Super Rugby head coach at the Crusaders. He could potentially complete the upcoming Super Rugby season before taking over at Fiji with several months to go before the France 2023.

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Robertson is many people’s favourite to takeover from Ian Foster as head coach of the All Blacks after the Rugby World Cup. The 48-year-old threw the cat among pigeons last week when he said the announcement of a new All Blacks coach is imminent.

New Zealand Rugby has rushed to douse speculation they are about to announce an appointment. “New Zealand Rugby is continuing to have internal discussions but an announcement about the All Blacks head coach or process is not imminent,” the body said in a one-sentence statement.

Robertson maintains he has some knowledge of how and when the process will play out.

“Whatever their process is, they’ve just got to give me enough run-in time whenever they go and I can do my job here at (the Crusaders),” Robertson said.

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NHinSH 769 days ago

Not a bad shout if it was purely for this WC

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Jay 769 days ago

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JWH 6 hours ago
'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Do you hear yourself? Do you have any concept of world view? Have you tried looking into why people call Ireland ‘arrogant’? Obviously not.


We started calling you arrogant when you called our captain a ‘shit Richie McCaw’. In New Zealand. On our turf. Don’t think that kind of behaviour really calls for respect, does it.


NZ don’t really talk ourselves up, if anything the rugby does it for us. No kiwi goes in the media and says: ‘We are gonna win the RWC’. However, I have found many instance of IRISH media saying that the Irish should win, without a doubt. THAT is disrespectful.


The All Blacks have played good rugby, even some of the best rugby ever, at many points in history, but I don’t think you could find a single instance of one of those players, or the NZ media, saying that they should whitewash their opponents. Ever.


Now, onto your analysis. Ireland DID choke the QF. They beat the champions, they were ranked first coming into it, a lot of players at the peaks of their powers. Its hard to say that they didn’t choke. Obviously, their preparation was just not as good as NZ, and thats all there really is to it.


If Ireland had repsected that ABs team and that QF more, maybe they would’ve prepared properly for it and won. But they didn’t.


Maybe if Ireland had won their QF last RWC, they wouldn’t have to be in the same pool as SA and Scotland. I mean, its called a draw for a reason. NZ got third last RWC, so of course they should get a reasonable pool, and they were ranked pretty highly too. If you want to talk about easy pools, look no further than Pool 3 with England, Australia, Fiji, and Georgia I think?


Now, obviously you don’t remember how that QF ended, so I’ll go ahead and rectify that. Ireland reclaimed the ball off kickoff and marched for 20ish phases into the opposition half. Savea then won a turnover, but the referee refused to give it, so play went on. Finally, at the NZ 22, after not giving up a single penatly in 25 phases of hard defense, Sam Whitelock, the most capped All Black of all time, wins the game with an incredible steal.


Now, NZ players having a go at Ireland. Do you cry when you get hit after making the first swing? We all know Sexton is a prick on the field, its just the truth. And Ioane never backs down from a clash, so he thought he should humble a player who has never won an international knockout game who thought he was all that. Don’t really see the issue, its poetic justice really.

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