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JAKE White has revealed that not only did he walk out on the Brumbies — he took some of their secrets with him back to South Africa too.
White, who quit the Brumbies last year after missing out on the vacant Wallabies job and took over the Sharks in his native South Africa, said he had returned home with plenty of new items in his coaching kitbag.
"It's amazing how many things I took from the Brumbies back to South Africa," White said on Fox Sports' Rugby HQ, ahead of the ladder-leading Sharks' clash against his old club in Canberra on Saturday night.
"The culture, the things that we did in terms of getting up in the morning and starting early, the kitchen — making sure we can eat properly.
"There were a lot of things that I learnt in Australia that were really helpful in my development as a coach. There's no doubt that I was set in my ways in South Africa, growing up as a South African coach there's only one way that we did things.
"To come to Australia to see how things can be done differently, there's obviously added things that Australians do — the way that they prepare for games and the way they do off-season programs et cetera.
"When I went back and shared those with a guy like John (Smit, the Sharks CEO) it was obviously easy for me to sell. I said we need this in place."
Jake White coached the Brumbies for two seasons, before heading back to South Africa. Source: Getty Images
White's return to Canberra this week for a top-of-the-table clash has been much hyped due to the circumstances surrounding his departure from the Australian capital last year.
The World Cup-winning coach with South Africa in 2007 had transformed the Brumbies from Super Rugby strugglers to grand finalists in just two seasons.
But after missing out on the Wallabies post to McKenzie, he pulled the pin on the Brumbies and headed home to South Africa.
White admitted that leaving the Brumbies players halfway through a four-year contract had been extremely difficult.
"That's probably the thing that hurt me the most, I obviously did ask a lot of guys to commit to Australian rugby," he said.
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"But at the same time I've sort of rethought about that. If Ben Mowen had come to me and said 'listen coach I've given you four years of my time and now after two I've worked out I'm not going to play in the World Cup, Ewen (McKenzie) has made it quite clear that I'm not in the mix, would you begrudge me if I now take a deal in France?', I would be really unkind in saying 'no, no, no, no, you've committed for four years at the Brumbies'.
"I think the human part of me would say, 'listen Ben, if the door's closed for you here that's only human nature I've got to wish you well.'"
White said he had "fronted" the Brumbies contingent of the Wallabies squad that toured South Africa during the Rugby Championship in September last year to explain his reasons for leaving.
"When I did explain that to the Jesse Moggs and the players that I bumped into in Cape Town, they understood that," he said.
"They obviously weren't too happy and I appreciate that. That was the toughest thing. But don't forget, the thing I promised them by coming to the Brumbies was a program, great opportunity, a winning culture, a great rugby club — and all those things have continued.
"I still believe that all the promises that were made to those players, they were fulfilled."
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