A major positive....

  Jones will be new Stormers coach August 18 2015 at 07:27am
By John Goliath Comment on this story INDEPENDENT MEDIAEddie Jones is set to become the highest-paid rugby coach in South Africa. His two-year contract is believed to be worth about R5 million a year.

Cape Town - Australian Eddie Jones will be unveiled as the new Stormers coach next week.

Jones is set to become the highest-paid rugby coach in South Africa. His two-year contract is believed to be worth about R5 million a year.

The Cape Times has learnt that the former Wallabies coach will replace Allister Coetzee, who has moved on to coach Kobelco Steelers in Japan after guiding the Stormers to the Super Rugby playoffs in June.

Backline coach Robbie Fleck will continue in his role, while new Western Province head coach John Dobson is likely to serve as another assistant. Forwards coach Matt Proudfoot has joined Coetzee in Japan.

It seems that Jones will continue in his role as coach of the Japanese national team. This, though, could be an issue, as it probably would have been ideal for the next Stormers coach to be a lot more hands-on during the times when Super Rugby is not played.

Jones has never coached in South Africa before and while he has experience of working with the Springboks as a consultant in 2007, he will need to adapt to the demands of coaching in the Cape because of the union’s diverse fan base and media scrutiny.

However, there is no denying his credentials as a world-class coach and as a man who thinks outside the proverbial box as a tactician.

Earlier this year WP director of rugby Gert Smal said he wanted a coach with Super Rugby and/or international experience. Jones has both and also fits the profile of a man who believes in an exciting brand of rugby – also one of Smal’s requirements.

Jones is no stranger to Super Rugby. He guided the Brumbies to the title in 2001. He was also in charge of the Australian national team at the 2003 World Cup on home soil.

No Stormers coach has won the coveted Super Rugby title.

Cape Times

We have not had much success with overseas coaches...Plum for example bombed big time. But Eddie is the one foreigner who seems to have a feel for South African players and tactics. With a competitive budget I think he could do a spectacular job at the Stormers.  

Plumtree did ok. He go to the final of SuperXV which is as good a result as any Sharks coach. He also won some Curry Cups. 
Plumtrees downfall was in the backline. where he lacked play makers. Frans Steyn tends to overdo the crash ball.
Mitchell got some results as the Lions coach but he needed better players. Ackerman may be benefiting from some of the improvements to backline play at the Lions as they are at least expansive even though they are mostly average joes.
Eddy Jones has forward knowledge as well as backline knowledge.  Some of the foreign coaches have failed with not getting the territory game of the forwards.

Thing is the Sharks had a great core. Beast, Bissie, Jannie, Alberts, Frans, JP....plus a competent supporting cast. That's what Plumtree inherited....as good as anything the Bools had when they won the S15. 

 Ag Foeitog  Dr Goebbels flopped again caug\fgt in his won BS.   Lets explain something to him and maybe he will get something in his befuddled mind correct for a change about Plumtree. 
First of all - he in his list above mentioned a supporting cast and he went bananas about it.   One of the players he mentioned was Fransie as per normal.  I would say that he got lost.  In 2013 Fransie weighed 118 kgs as a center - he became known as Fat Fransie and his performances were so bad that Plumtree was forced to drop him from the starting line-up.  Plumtree did make a remark about him being no center at all and that is a fact if his performances in Super 15 between 2013 and 2015 in the Super 15 series is borne in mind.   In 2014 season Fat Fransie made 1 line break and beat 8 defenders all season long - this year it was 1 line breaks beating 9 defenders.  In both 2014 and 2015 Fransie's defensive stats were worse than those of De Allende - who in Super 15 this year made 27 line breaks beating 73 defenders.   When challenged about the stats issue - you came up with the BS story about Fransie's stats is of no consequence, his presence on the field of play is enough to scare the wits out of the opposing players because they are so afraid of Fransie as an opponent.   Your campaign against Plumtree stemmed virtually entirely from the Fransie fiasco - which is obviously BS. 
Bismarck was injured in the test against Argentina in 2012 and was out of rugby for most of the 2013 SR season.  He was one of the 19 players who were injured in the Sharks squad from a total of 36 squad members.  The injury situation was so bad that at a number of stages Plumtree had to borrow players from the Lions to ensure he had a match day squad of 23 players available.  
Alberts never ever had a good Super 15 season since 2012.  He was extremely poor in 2013 - and got progressively worse in 2014.  In 2015 he played in only 3 Super 15 matches and was disgustingly poor in all three.  Again a player whose ridiculous stats is countered by the fear out of their wits BS from you.
JP had a horrible performance record over the past three Super 15 season - he progressively got slower and slower.
The problem with the firing of Plumtree centered entirely around Smit and was so bad that it landed Smit in constant trouble subsequently.  It ended up in the Sharks playing in near to empty stadiums at home - a fact that cost White his job as a subsequent coach.  The reason is that White caused further havoc in the team because of a poor record of causing rifts within the team.   Be it as it may it is a fact that White was asked to resign by the Sharks.
What you ignore about Plumtree is that he got egg all over your face subsequently as he was assistant coach -
*   of Ireland who won the 6 nations two years running; and*   of the Hurricanes this year
Plumtree was the single biggest mistake made by John Smit as Director of Rugby and it was admitted by all the local experts.  The firing of Plumtree  and contracting of a stri ng of English club has-beens/rejects  have had a disastrous affect n the Sharks which will take years to overcome.    
The Sharks are still looking for a head coach and they would not get one easily as a result of the Plumtree fiasco.
          

 My lasting memory of Eddie Jones is how in a matter of 6 weeks he fixed the Bok backline leading into the 2007 RWC.

 Denny
100% true

 and now we have Ricardo Loubser who couldn't fix a dead light bulb...