VIDEO: Tony Brown's coaching swiss army knife
WATCH as the Behind the Ruck crew, Springboks Rudy Paige and Juan de Jongh, chat with former All Black flyhalf and current Springbok attack coach Tony Brown.
Brown speaks about his love for golf, how he became an attack coach, and his cultural adaptation to South Africa.
“Back in 2006, I was playing rugby in Japan and Dick Muir gave me a call and I think Butch James was injured at the time and he needed a flyhalf to fill in for the Super [12] season,”
He added: “I was fortunate enough that my Japanese club let me go in the off-season to Durban and play for the Sharks, and I loved it so much that I decided to go again when Rassie gave me a ring in 2008.”
He also opened up on how he got into coaching during his time in Japan
“Japanese players always come to you for advice and they come to you to do some training together and to try and help them improve their game, so I just enjoyed helping the Japanese players get better.”
He added: “I think I was about 30 at the time and I signed on as a player-coach and my body ended up lasting longer than they thought and I ended up being a player-coach for eight years.”
When asked why he opted to be an attack coach, Brown gave an interesting response on how he’s not limited to that role only
“I think I can coach all parts of the game,” he said.
“I definitely coached defence before.
“When I first started with Otago I was head coach and back in those days we only had one assistant and he just did a little bit of line-out and scrum stuff. So I was doing the defence, the attack, the kicking game, and all the parts of the rugby that needed to be done.”
Watch the full interview below…
