Former Flying Fijians coach Vern Cotter is backing his new Blues outfit to go one step further in the 2024 Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific season, having bowed out just shy of glory each season since a 2021 Trans-Tasman title.
Cotter is one of three incoming Super Rugby Pacific head coaches in the wake of Scott Robertson’s All Blacks overhaul, replacing Leon MacDonald at the Auckland club after leaving Fiji earlier in the year.
He says the squad he’s inherited hold higher expectations as they have done really well, from where they’ve come from in the last three years.
The Blues coach says its just nailing that last little bit now and finding what they need.
He says it is really the player that will come up with the solutions as they are the guys on the field, doing the business.
Cotter says they are only there guiding them and helping them a little bit with reflecting on how they can get better in performance situations.
He says he is looking forward to that, sitting down and talking to these guys because there is talent there and just making sure they then become consistent, and just work on what Leon MacDonald has done the last three years.
Cotter says he thinks its the ones that want to become All Blacks that make a difference.
Source: Rugbypass
