Dave Rennie pointed the way to Japan for Mike BlairJapan-bound Mike Blair has revealed he got his offer to be Dave Rennie’s attack coach at Kobe Steelers via an online WhatsApp chat group.Blair made the surprise announcement in February that he would stand down as Edinburgh head coach at the end of the 2022-23 season.The former Scotland scrum-half worked under Rennie when the New Zealander was Glasgow Warriors head coach.”We’ve still got a WhatsApp group with that coaching team,” said Blair, 42.”Dave was getting some abuse for losing his job with Australia and one of the guys, John Manson, said, ‘you’ll be off to Japan then’. And I jokingly said, ‘if you fancy taking an attack coach, I’m in’.”He actually messaged me separately and said, ‘Mike, are you actually interested?’ So I said, ‘oh geez, yeah!'”Gatland to push Wales players to limitBlair will begin work in August as Kobe Steelers look to regain the Japanese title after Saitama Wild Knights took the crown last year.The Scot insists he had no idea where he would be heading next when he explained in February that he wished to develop into “a world class attack coach”. “The decision I made back in February
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Mike Blair: Former Edinburgh head coach has WhatsApp group to thank for Kobe Steelers job – BBC
