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 realised. “I started thinking deeply.”The ex-North Sydney Bear turned Queensland Reds boss has plenty to think on now, having been appointed as Wallabies coach from mid-2026. The 60-year-old must now unpuzzle one of the greatest brain strainers in Australian sport: how to return the Wallabies – a rugby superpower now ranked eighth in the world – to greatness. Continue reading...

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