Jake White to take over from Deans and Coach the Wallabies

Former Wallabies coach Eddie Jones believes continued disciplinary problems in the Australian side will be the ultimate downfall of current test mentor Robbie Deans. While he didn't believe the result of Saturday night's series decider against the British and Irish Lions would determine Deans' fate, Jones on Thursday tipped the New Zealander's days were numbered. The current Japan national coach indicated his close friend and former World Cup-winning South African coach Jake White was positioned to get the job ahead of Queensland mentor Ewen McKenzie. Jones said Deans had done a "pretty fair job" over six seasons, reaping one Tri-Nations title in 2011 without any Bledisloe Cup success, but his inability to take a firm stance against discipline problems had placed him in a dire position. Continued misbehaviour by exciting backs James O'Connor and Kurtley Beale, two players Deans has resolutely stood by, has upset senior Wallabies players and rugby fans alike. "There's continuing problems off the field of ill-discipline and I think that's something that needs to get sorted out and it's obviously not going to happen under Robbie's regime," Jones told ABC Grandstand. "The thing the Australian side is missing is not ability but probably the discipline and consistency of preparation. "I think if they get those two areas right for the World Cup in 2015 they're a great chance to win it." Australian Rugby Union boss Bill Pulver has said Deans' immediate future did not hinge on series success against the Lions but he has also failed to offer any guarantees if the Wallabies lose at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night. Jones felt the ARU had already made up their minds on Deans and his exit timing would determine whether Brumbies coach White or McKenzie was given the post. "I think they will either go for Ewen to take over immediately [before The Rugby Championship] or go for Jake to take it for two years and then probably groom Ewen to take it over in 2016 and in the next two years try and sort out the [Melbourne] Rebels," he said. "I think that's almost a done deal if Jake gets the Wallabies job." Jones, who acted as a consultant to the Springboks coach at the 2007 World Cup after being sacked by the ARU in 2005, said White's record a strict disciplinarian as well as his international experience made him the strongest option. "I think Ewen would be better to have a four-year preparation rather than two years and that's why Jake, I think, it tips the scale for him," he said.

Can't wait for White to take over and I hope he does!

eddie jones also believed that the brumbies would win the 2012 spXV and that the wallabies would lose to los puma in argentina.
jones reminds me a lot of that chick at the night club who gets waaaaaay too drunk and tries to be the loudest in the room with her look at me antics.
cant fault the dude though for sticking up for white, white and jones do have good rapport, maybe he thinks that with white as the wallabies coach he will get his foot back into the wallbies himself???

i think deanos time is up too, but i got a feeling that ewan "im so fat i use bacon for band aids" mackenzie will get the job instead.

personally it wont make a lick of difference who the wallabies get, All Blacks will always be on top of the rugby food chain.

Being the stats man you are Suscker - why dont you have a look @ McKenzies record v Kiwi teams in super XV.... GOlden era is just round the corner as the Poms can beat the depleted ABs and refs wisening up to your cheating ways... Wallabies just need Link and its time for some real dominance.

@redsneck,

oh perrrlease, as if super rugby is in anyway an indication of testrugby, the dynamics and variables involved in make it impossible to tell how one or the other will accurately workout, o_O

i like how u ask for numbers for ur man ewans "so fat dora cant explore her" mackenzie, even though u have repeatedly been anti stats when i have shown u the numbers on many of our past arguments which countered ur many unintelligent so called facts, but hey being stupid dosent mean u cant be a hypocrite, so enjoy the stats and bottoms up, -_o

ewans "so fat he didnt fit in this joke" mackenzies record against NZ super rugby teams
40 games total - 21 wins - 19 losses - 52.5%

golden era around the blocks??? pffffft, oh wait ur going to use te england test as ur cornestone, yeah nice englands first win in 10 years and all of a sudden u start getting hot flashes, LMAO, :oD

dont forget, no wallaby coach in the professional era has ever had a a greater then 50% win record over the All Blacks, so the only golden thing the wallabies will be getting is a golden shower, :oP

Jake and McKenzie may make a good team.  But Jake is a snake and he has now got his buddy to make a long roundabout statement putting him Jake in the limelight.  Jake "rek sy bek" about all and sundry and is very outspoken on other people.  He should just put his head down and do his job.  Sometimes I think he would make a better politician than a coach cause he has verbal diarrhoea (Bek bekakking).