{"id":379179,"date":"2026-01-19T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:48:15","slug":"tony-brown-reveals-springboks-contract-situation-and-all-black-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379179\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Brown reveals Springboks contract situation and All Black rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Current Springboks assistant coach Tony Brown<\/a> has revealed his contract situation after rumours of a possible shift back to New Zealand, to coach the All Blacks<\/a> with one of the possible candidates, Jamie Joseph.<\/p>\n

Joseph has been widely reported as one of the leading candidates for the vacant All Blacks coaching role, after New Zealand<\/a> Rugby Chair David Kirk<\/a> addressed media in Auckland<\/a> on Thursday after Scott Robertson\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

Brown, who has been Joseph\u2019s right-hand man in the past, is contracted with the Springboks until the end of the 2027 Rugby World Cup<\/a> in Australia, with negotiations for a new contract reportedly underway between Brown and South Africa.<\/p>\n

Springboks head coach Rassie Erasmus<\/a> recently inked a new deal with the Springboks up until the 2031 Rugby World Cup, and had spoken publicly about locking down the rest of his assistants.<\/p>\n

Brown, speaking to Paul Cully from The Post, confirms that not only is he unable to join the All Blacks as an assistant coach because of his contract, but he also hasn\u2019t been contacted yet by New Zealand Rugby.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m obviously contracted,\u201d Brown told The Post on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have an out of my contract, so I\u2019m back in South Africa [until the Rugby World Cup].<\/p>\n

Asked about whether he would be keen on a role with the All Blacks, Brown explains that all of the rumours are just speculation and nothing has really changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything\u2019s just speculation. I\u2019m not even sure what New Zealand Rugby\u2019s plans are. No one\u2019s really heard anything,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

Like many coaches who have spoken out since Scott Robertson\u2019s departure, Brown said he\u2019s surprised that the organisation has made the move at this current point of the Rugby World Cup cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very surprised,\u201d the current Springboks assistant said on a report by The Post. \u201cI didn\u2019t think they would do that, especially with no one waiting to take over.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It\u2019s] definitely not [going to be easy] for them [to find a replacement], especially without a CEO and high-performance manager, so there\u2019s lots of things for them to get sorted pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the [Springboks] coaches have been chatting on chat groups and things like that, so everyone\u2019s pretty surprised and amazed at what\u2019s what\u2019s been happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current Springboks assistant coach Tony Brown has revealed his contract situation after rumours of a possible shift back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}