Wallabies captain Harry Wilson insists he hasn’t been in Les Kiss’s ear about taking up the Wallabies job.
Kiss is a frontrunner to exchange Joe Schmidt after this 12 months’s Rugby Championship after the New Zealand mentor introduced this month he could not stick with it by means of till the Rugby World Cup in Australia in 2027.
Schmidt, although, is open to assuming a consultancy position if the subsequent coach asks him.
Given he has labored with Schmidt earlier than throughout his stint teaching Eire, Kiss shapes as an apparent candidate.
He would probably 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 stated forward of the Kiss-coached Reds’ Tremendous Rugby Pacific season opener on Friday night time in Brisbane.
“I am simply apprehensive about Les choosing me for this weekend in opposition to Moana Pasifika, so I would not be pondering that far forward.
“And I assume for Les, he is obtained a lot on his plate proper now. He is been getting ready for the final six, seven months for this weekend and this season forward.
“So I do know I will not be pondering that far forward and I do know he in all probability would not too, so I have never 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 have been disenchanted to listen to Schmidt was ending up at 12 months’s finish, Wilson applauded the Kiwi for at the least going public along 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 occurring with Joe and for the Lions tour and Rugby Championship,” Wilson stated.
“I do know as a enjoying group, we’re all actually grateful that he is sticking round for that little further interval for that Rugby Championship, as a result of if he did not, it in the end would have left us in a fairly powerful spot to go straight from the British and Irish Lions three days earlier than we soar on a aircraft to (play) the world champions (in South Africa).
“It would be superior for Joe to do this for us and I’ve obtained little question as soon as the subsequent coach is sorted, he’ll be in there and studying the way in which we go about our enterprise so it is a easy transition from there.”
