Despite at times vastly different personalities, the best coaches are typically more similar than they are different – they have to be. And one of the ways in which they have to be more similar is in their resilience to criticism, both fair and unreasonable, up front and from the blind side alike. Last week Ewen McKenzie, Australia's most successful provincial coach of the past decade, copped one such cheap shot. It was reported on ESPNscrum.com that a high-ranking Australian Rugby Union official who will play a major role in determining the next Wallabies coach, had recently told colleagues: “As long as my backside is pointing to the ground, Ewen...
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