Ronan O'Gara: Not the time to turn my world upside down again 

Scott Robertson's appointment as All Blacks head coach is thrilling but we've done the family thing in a different hemisphere.

RAZOR'S EDGE:  Assistant coach Ronan O'Gara and head coach Scott Robertson during a Crusaders Super Rugby Captain's Run in 2019. Picture: Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images

The proposals for the globalisation of rugby have been floated out there, a World League between 12 nations in the summer and November windows. The way things are shaping it will not be unusual in the future to see northern hemisphere coaches in charge of southern hemisphere nations and vice versa. In broad terms, you are talking about 20 weeks in the year all told, which wouldn’t necessitate moving lock, stock and children to the other side of the world. It should be feasible to coach in the other hemisphere in blocks of ten weeks twice a year. In doing so, it will open up the hemispheres to different thinkers and alternative styles.

Not that I was thinking of the New Zealand head coach position but the appointment of Scott Robertson as the man-in-waiting caught me by surprise as much as it thrilled me. The information from sources who cannot be trusted was that the NZRU liked the package of Jamie Joseph with Tony Brown and that they were in pole position to get the gig. Given the split vote, so to speak, on the merits of Razor and/or Joe Schmidt and the unlikelihood of them presenting as a combo, Joseph looked a decent shout. What do I know?