Assistant coaches could hold key to All Blacks job

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Candidates: (from left) Jamie Joseph, Scott Robertson and Ian Foster are all in the frame for the New Zealand job
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As an All Black, Tony Brown played just 18 Tests and lived almost permanently in the shadow of one of the greatest New Zealand fly-halves of the modern era, Andrew Mehrtens.
As a coach, he won’t be applying for the vacant position with the All Blacks himself, but by stepping out of the shadows to stand alongside the out-of-contract Japanese boss Jamie Joseph, Brown may have made himself the unlikeliest of kingmakers i...

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