South Africa’s World Cup-winning coach Jake White has applied and will be interviewed for the head coaching job at Australia’s ACT Brumbies.
Andy Friend has been fired as ACT Brumbies coach, two matches into the Super 15 rugby season, and has been replaced by Tony Rea.
The Sharks believe their efforts to remain unbeaten in the Super 14 became more difficult when their 10th-round opponents, the ACT Brumbies, announced midweek that coach Laurie Fisher would not be re-hired for 2009. Super 14 tradition suggests that teams whose coaches are dismissed in the course of any season respond with an immediate form improvement.