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Chris Hickey is a professional rugby union coach and the former coach of the NSW Waratahs in the Super Rugby tournament.

Rugby union Team sport, code of rugby football

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world simply as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts at each end.

Super Rugby rugby union competition

Super Rugby is a professional men's rugby union competition involving teams from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan. Building on various Southern Hemisphere competitions dating back to the South Pacific Championship in 1986, with teams from a number of southern nations, Super Rugby started as the Super 12 in the 1996 season with 12 teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Super 12 was established by SANZAR after the sport became professional in 1995.

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Early coaching career

Chris Hickey first started his coaching career in 1992 with the First Grade Ballina Seahorse's rugby union club in the Far North Coast rugby union competition. Taking the Ballina rugby union club to its first ever premiership title since the formation of the club in 1976. Chris Hickey then took on the coaching director role of the ACT Vikings Rugby Club where he took them to six grand finals and secured three championships. He then joined the Eastwood Rugby Club in 2001 where he led them to back-to-back championships in 2001 and 2002. [1] In addition to his duties at Eastwood, he coached the NSW 'A' team in 2003, and the Australian Under-21 team in 2005 and 2006. [2]

Eastwood Rugby Club

Eastwood Rugby is a rugby union club playing in the Sydney Premier Rugby competition. The club is based at T G Millner Field. The Club's players and supporters are primarily drawn from North West Sydney. The Eastwood District extends from the Parramatta River at Meadowbank to the Hawkesbury River at Wisemans Ferry.

Waratahs

His success with club rugby led to his hiring as the Waratahs head coach for the 2009 Super Rugby season, replacing Ewen McKenzie. [3]

Ewen James Andrew McKenzie is an Australian professional rugby union coach and a former international rugby player. He played for Australia's World Cup winning team in 1991 and earned 51 caps for the Wallabies during his test career. McKenzie was head coach of the Australian team from 2013 to 2014. He has coached in both southern and northern hemispheres, in Super Rugby for the Waratahs and Reds, and in France at Top 14 side Stade Français. During his playing days he was a prop and, in a representative career spanning from 1987 to 1997, he played nine seasons for the NSW Waratahs and two for the ACT Brumbies.

His tenure was met with vocal criticisms from fans who felt that his team often engaged in negative tactics and "aimless kicking". [4] Despite the criticisms, statistics showed that the Waratahs scored the most tries in 2011 super rugby season with 46 tries from 16 games. The 2011 season was further marred by injurities to numerous players, backroom squander and financial losses due to poor attendance. [5]

Following the conclusion of the season, Hickey decided not to seek a contract extension believing that it was time for change. He was succeeded by his assistant Michael Foley [6]

Michael Foley (rugby union) Australian rugby union player

Michael Foley is a former hooker for the Australia national rugby union team and former Super Rugby head coach of the Western Force and New South Wales Waratahs teams.

He leaves with a 63.34% winning percentage, an all-time record among Waratahs coaches, [7] as well as finishing first of all Australian Super Rugby teams in the 2009 and 2010 with 5th and 3rd respectively.

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References

  1. ↑ NSW Shute Shield results
  2. ↑ Chris Hickey appointed new HSBC Waratahs coach [ permanent dead link ] BondiPond
  3. ↑ Chris Hickey takes over as Waratahs coach By Jon Geddes and Iain Payten, 1 June 2008
  4. ↑ Kicking given the boot by Waratahs coach Michael Foley by Jamie Pandaram, 11 November 2011
  5. ↑ Hickey prepared to secede but still raring to take Tahs to title
  6. ↑ Michael Foley replaces Chris Hickey as coach of Super Rugby outfit New South Wales Waratahs by FoxSports writers, 19 August 2011
  7. ↑ Michael Foley takes over as head coach
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