Former All Blacks weigh in on the timing of Tony Brown's appointment

Brown has a good chance to win the 27’s RWC with the Boks, something which is unlikely to achieve with the current ABs.

I actually respect all parties from New Zealand and South Africa for coming out and being transparent, there are no questions and rumers. Look at the whole Eddie Jones and the Japan job situation. The media is always going to leak this type of news. I do not think Tony will under perform, remember he is still a professional and will have a point to prove, he would want to show that his attack can win a world cup. I think both parties benefited from his time here, yes he was always known as one of the best attack coaches, but I think doing it for the springboks made him much much more desired because it proved that his system worked with a tier one team, who plays a much much more competitive schedule than Japan, he has proven that he can do it at the highest level. For the springboks, there are a ton of great attack coaches out there, I think it just took someone like Tony Brown to open our team up to being more exciting while still holding our core style of playing. And with the inside information, just remember it goes both ways. I do think that Rassie will likely look to reset a lot of strategies after the world cup, and Tony brown will likely come up with new Ideas in NZ, just keep in mind that he coaches attack according to a teams strangths and Weaknesses, and what worked in Japan, was not going to work in SA, and what works in SA won't necessarily work in NZ.

When you say weigh in, it sounds negative, it was more commented about it on as part of a rugby show. Sort of over dramatic headlines.

Sad to see him leave the Boks. He is a true rugby guy and he brought a lot to the Boks. But it is understandable. He is a former All Black, his family is in NZ. Will miss him but all the best Tony. Great guy. Well done NZ Rugby, he is worth his weight in gold.

This is refreshingly bold and ruthless from NZR. They’re finally acting like they’re operating in a competitive environment, which they are.

What people are missing here - it’s not all about 2028, and who will be on the coaching team. NZR have just robbed SA rugby of one of their big strengths. There’s no doubt Rassie wanted to resign Tony - but now he can’t.

Quite un NZ rugby like, but it shows they are starting to realise if you don’t aggresively secure your top talent, somebody else will.

I dont like how NZ coaches take or dont take a job based on ‘who-they-can-work-with’ and ‘loyalty’ and all that.

Eg. Joe Schmidt committing to Foz so he won’t work with razor etc.

Players get told to sack up and be ‘coachable’, to fit with the team and culture or go somewhere else.

It’s the All Blacks. That’s the ticket these coaches should commit to, not personal allegiances.

They seem like sensitive little princesses at times.