Former All Blacks fullback Leon MacDonald will rejoin the Canterbury Crusaders an assistant coach next season, the Super Rugby team has announced. Photo: Getty ImagesMcDonald will link up with new head coach Scott Robertson at the end of New Zealand's provincial rugby competition in October. He is the current head coach of Tasman and will continue in that role in 2017. A schoolboy prodigy, MacDonald played for his hometown provincial side Marlborough as a teenager in 1994 before stepping up to Super Rugby with the Crusaders in 1997. "This is an exciting step forward in my coaching career and I can't wait to be involved in Super Rugby again," MacDonald said of the two-year contract.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 30, 2016 03:45 UTC