Next Wallabies coach Les Kiss: a mongrel mix of league and union, coach and strategist
An extended transition from the Joe Schmidt era should be smooth before Kiss sets about solving one of the great brain strainers in sport: how to return Australian rugby to greatnessLes Kiss was an injured rugby league winger looking down the barrel of retirement and a day job flogging poker machines when the idea of a career in coaching struck. The art of gelling many disparate personalities into one united team intrigued him. “On the sideline I saw the game differently,” he realise