Former State of Origin winger and successful union coach Les Kiss has beaten several big names - including former Wallabies - to replace Brad Thorn at Ballymore.
The Reds have settled on their Brad Thorn replacement, and it’s another former Queensland Maroons representative set to take the top job at Ballymore.
The deciding panel was split on the decision at one stage, before eventually settling on Kiss as the man to resurrect a stagnant Reds program. While there are some highly talented players in the current squad, there are missing pieces to make it a genuinely fearsome playing roster.LoadingThe fact they made the Super Rugby quarter-finals the last two years, this season pushing the Chiefs in a tense do-or-die clash in Hamilton while missing some key ingredients to their playing stocks, highlights the potential of the group.
Kiss has been an assistant coach at international level as well as spending seven seasons as an assistant at the Waratahs, during which time they made two Super Rugby finals. Kiss fought off challenges from Toutai Kefu, Mick Heenan, Nathan Grey, Brad Mooar and Steve Diamond, all of whom made it through to second-round interviews.Grey, Heenan and Kefu are all thought to have been longshots despite getting second round interviews.
One criticism to emerge from the whole process is that those who didn’t make it past the first round are understood to have not received phone calls informing them of their situation.
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