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Western Force captain David Pocock will be allowed to have one-on-one meetings with the club's coaching candidates as part of the selection process.
The unusual move shows just how much the club wants to keep the star Wallaby flanker and his opinion will carry great weight in the appointment of a new coach.
The first interview by the selection panel will be conducted in the next few days, with Pocock away on Wallabies duty.
Scott Staniforth, a Force foundation player and the players' representative on the board, is part of the selection panel.
Pocock has spoken to the five candidates and will be able to have further talks with them, Force chief executive Vern Reid said.
Pocock's contract with the Force runs until the end of the year and he has maintained that he will not make a decision on his future until after the Super season ends and the successor to Richard Graham, who defected mid-season to the Queensland Reds, is appointed.
"David will follow the process through to the end. This is an important decision for us and an important decision for David. I'm very comfortable with his involvement," Reid said.
The five candidates will be interviewed in Perth. Reid said the Force would be in a position to make a decision in about two weeks.
"The interviews will all be carried out face to face," Reid said.
The candidates have been offered the opportunity to talk to other squad players. One has already refused the offer.
The list is believed to include former Australian assistant coach Scott Johnson, who is currently Scotland's backs coach, Michael Cheika, who was with French club Stade Francais, former Ireland and US coach Eddie O'Sullivan, Force foundation assistant coach John Mulvihill and former Wallabies assistant Tim Lane.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/spo...mpress-pocock/
“Everyone knows whether it’s rugby, politics or whatever, front-rowers should rule the world, so to have a hooker at the helm makes sense,” Nathan Charles Western Force & Wallabies Hooker.
The one who has "already refused the offer" to meet players in the squad sounds like a great prospect! Not!! (unless he has a jolly good excuse as to why he's turned down the offer)
I have nothong but admiration for David. But I have to admit I'm starting to get the tiniest of alarm bells ringing about prospective coaches being "offered the chance to meet players". Unless they requested it.
"The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday - Tom David
please not mulvihill
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Johnson or Lane for mine.
“Everyone knows whether it’s rugby, politics or whatever, front-rowers should rule the world, so to have a hooker at the helm makes sense,” Nathan Charles Western Force & Wallabies Hooker.
As long as this means that DP's staying....
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Yeah I'd have crossed that guy off the list right away, apparently he won't take any player input and that is a sign of a dictator type coach which has a very short shelf life. We need a coach that knows how to be open but stern. I don't want a players coach either because players take the inch and go a mile. I want a coach who can lay the law down but still have a rapport with the players.
You can scratch my back with a hacksaw!
My choice is Lane or at the very least Johnson.
You can scratch my back with a hacksaw!
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Oh yeah that's right.
I bet he is the one that did not want to meet with players either.
80 Minutes, 15 Positions, No Protection, Wanna Ruck?
Ruck Me, Maul Me, Make Me Scrum!
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maybe Shasta's point (and feel free to tell me I'm wrong) is that it smells a bit of Gitteaugate, sorry coach the players don't like you.. bye bye
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoly card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game Uno.