Ewen Mackenzie replaces arch enemy

THE great experiment with foreign sporting coaches is coming to an end and the Kiwis can go back to being our arch enemies. Just weeks after South African Mickey Arthur was replaced by Australian Darren Lehmann as the nation’s cricket coach, Victorian-born Queensland Reds boss Ewen McKenzie is poised to take over from New Zealander Robbie Deans as the Wallabies coach. It never sat easy with me that we would have an All Black coaching the Wallabies – a bit like Ho Chi Minh teaching me how to soldier. Brett Harris, the journo, must be young when he says ‘the Kiwis can go back to being our arch enemies’. They always were and always will be Brett.