Wallabies captain Harry Wilson insists he hasn’t been in Les Kiss’s ear about taking over the Wallabies job.
Kiss is a frontrunner to interchange Joe Schmidt after this 12 months’s Rugby Championship after the New Zealand mentor introduced this month he could not keep on by means of till the Rugby World Cup in Australia in 2027.
Schmidt, although, is open to assuming a consultancy position if the following coach asks him.
Given he has labored with Schmidt earlier than throughout his stint teaching Eire, Kiss shapes as an apparent candidate.
He would doubtless be competing with former Wallabies assistants Stephen Larkham and Dan McKellar in addition to Michael Cheika, who coached Australia from 2014 to 2019.
However Wilson maintains he hasn’t tried to speak Kiss into making use of.
“I’ve not spoken to him (Kiss) about it in any respect,” the Queensland flanker mentioned forward of the Kiss-coached Reds’ Tremendous Rugby Pacific season opener on Friday night time in Brisbane.
“I am simply anxious about Les selecting me for this weekend towards Moana Pasifika, so I would not be considering that far forward.
“And I assume for Les, he is received a lot on his plate proper now. He is been making ready for the final six, seven months for this weekend and this season forward.
“So I do know I will not be considering that far forward and I do know he most likely would not too, so I have not spoken to him and do not actually plan on chatting with him a lot.
“I plan on attempting to carry out for him week in, week out this 12 months for Reds.”
Whereas most Wallabies followers had been disillusioned to listen to Schmidt was ending up at 12 months’s finish, Wilson applauded the Kiwi for at the very least going public together with his choice early on, so Rugby Australia wasn’t thrust right into a mad scramble to discover a substitute after the British and Irish Lions collection in July and August.
“It’s good to know what’s taking place with Joe and for the Lions tour and Rugby Championship,” Wilson mentioned.
“I do know as a taking part in group, we’re all actually grateful that he is sticking round for that little additional interval for that Rugby Championship, as a result of if he did not, it finally would have left us in a fairly powerful spot to go straight from the British and Irish Lions three days earlier than we bounce on a airplane to (play) the world champions (in South Africa).
“It would be superior for Joe to do this for us and I’ve received little doubt as soon as the following coach is sorted, he’ll be in there and studying the best way we go about our enterprise so it is a easy transition from there.”
