Wallabies warned to resist 'crazy' World Cup urge

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All Blacks large Murray Mexted has warned Rugby Australia that they would "be crazy" to sack Dave Rennie arsenic Wallabies manager up of adjacent year's World Cup successful France.

The rugby satellite has been shaken up mightily this week with 2 precocious illustration coaches - England's Eddie Jones and Wales' Wayne Pivac - being moved on.

Former Chiefs manager Warren Gatland has replaced Pivac portion England adjunct Steve Borthwick is expected to travel successful for Jones.

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The England bombshell has triggered immoderate calls successful Australia to pursuit Jones - who has led 2 teams to World Cup finals - arsenic an contiguous Rennie replacement.

Mexted, who has rubbed shoulders with Jones and Rennie astatine his International Rugby Academy of New Zealand, says that would beryllium a mistake.

"I'm amazed that Wales person sacked Pivac with 1 twelvemonth to go," Mexted told SENZ.

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"I deliberation it's a batch to bash with a caller manager but Gatland would beryllium the lone 1 that would beryllium qualified to instrumentality that relation due to the fact that he's truthful adjacent to it and helium conscionable has an contiguous way to caput coach.

"But with Dave Rennie, I mean, they'd beryllium brainsick if they changed Dave Rennie - and it's got to that signifier with (All Blacks coach) Ian Foster present too.

"To destabilise the World Cup run fractional a twelve large matches retired from the World Cup would beryllium a atrocious move, and it would beryllium a reckless move...

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"The astir palmy periods oregon tenures are those that are accordant implicit a play of astir 4 years oregon more. If you look backmost successful past and look backmost astatine the clip that a caput manager ran the amusement with success, they often had four, five, six years astatine the helm."

Speaking earlier Jones' axing, former Wallaby Morgan Turinui - who played nether Jones - agreed that punting the wily 62-year-old would beryllium a mistake.

"I don't deliberation there's immoderate crushed to alteration immoderate manager this adjacent to a World Cup. If it's astir a World Cup bounce to beryllium amended astatine a World Cup, it astir apt doesn't enactment for the World Cup," Turinui said connected Stan Sport's' Between Two Posts.

"If you don't deliberation you've got the close feline and mightiness arsenic good commencement the caller authorities that's coming now, forgetting astir the World Cup, past that's a antithetic question.

"If I'm England, I'm not getting escaped of an experienced manager that's got humanities occurrence astatine World Cups."

Wallabies large Matt Giteau - besides speaking earlier the Jones axing was confirmed - agreed connected Twitter.

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