The New Zealand Herald's Gregor Paul believes Crusaders head coach Todd Blackadder is the All Blacks supremo in waiting, but reckons he will have to wait for his chance.
"It's a matter of when, not if, Todd Blackadder will be All Blacks coach - but 2013 is likely to be the earliest he'll have a crack.
"The undoubted people's favourite has conducted himself with the quiet dignity and poise he maintained when All Black captain.
"Thrown the near-impossible task of following Robbie Deans into the Crusaders coaching job, Blackadder has consolidated and even enhanced Super Rugby's greatest team.
"They are unquestionably his side now - tough up front, inventive out wide and, if anything, more entrenched in the community than they were under Deans. With the All Black job to be opened to tender after the World Cup, Blackadder could be swept into the post by public opinion."
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