Wynne Gray salutes Ewen McKenzie's handling of the Reds this season in The New Zealand Herald.
"When the Reds began another Super 14 campaign with a loss there were the usual "here we go again" laments.
"Others were more encouraged by the two-point loss to the Waratahs, they saw advances on a pretty sorry Reds record since 2003. In seven series, the Reds had not finished in the top half of the table.
"Enter Ewen James Andrew McKenzie, the 44-year-old former World Cup-winning tight-head prop, only the second Victorian to play for the Wallabies, a coach who had served an apprenticeship at the Waratahs and Stade Francais. McKenzie was head coach of the Waratahs from 2004 to 2008. Prior to that he was an assistant at the Brumbies and with the Wallabies."
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