Former Wallaby star Brendan Cannon has said that Rugby Australia should be "mortgaging the bank and the house" to secure Ireland's High Performance Director David Nucifora. Nucifora, also a former Australia international hooker, has been employed by the IRFU since 2014 to oversee the elite game in Ireland. “Rugby Australia should be mortgaging the bank and the house to get David Nucifora back to allow him to implement carte blanche, free rein, a centralised system,” Cannon told AAP. “He’s spent time overseas and is now looking back at Australia; he’s been a part of the most successful transformation of recent times of a national side. Nucifora was employed by Rugby Australia until 2012, where his idea for a centralised player system, as he's implemented in Ireland, "ran into roadblocks".

Source: Evening echo December 05, 2018 17:03 UTC