The union helps players who want to move into coaching but believes coaches can also come from the club system. He said there were other coaches who had not been high ranking players and went on to be professional coaches. Coaches such as Clayton McMillan, Neil Barnes, Tom Coventry and Chris Gibbes did not play professional rugby but were coaching at Super Rugby level. The players will do coaching level courses. Professional players were exposed to the professional side of the game and all its structures but it was no necessarily about "who someone had played for."

Source: Otago Daily Times January 23, 2021 19:41 UTC