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Daryl Gibson resigns as head coach of Waratahs

Waratahs head coach Daryl Gibson. Photo / Getty Images

Waratahs coach Daryl Gibson has resigned from his post as head coach of the Waratahs after another disappointing season.

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An official announcement will be made on Friday afternoon.

Assistant coach Simon Cron has already announced that he will be heading to Japan to take up the head coaching role with Toyota Verblitz. The Waratahs will now be scrambling to find someone to take over the reins – though experienced coaches still residing in Australia are few and far between.

Gibson joined the Waratahs as an assistant to Michael Cheika in 2013. When Cheika took over as Wallabies coach at the end of 2015, Gibson was the natural successor.

Although well-liked, the ex-All Black has overseen four poor seasons with the NSW side, who will finish the 2019 season in 12th place.

The Waratahs managed one semi-final appearance during Gibson’s time in charge but have a win rate of less than 50 percent (28 wins from 64 games) under his tenure. The 2017 season was the Waratahs’ worst-ever, with the team recording just four wins.

Gibson’s next career move is unknown, however he was supposedly in talks with English Premiership side Bath earlier this year.

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Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


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