Former coach Brown returning to Highlanders from Sunwolves


  • Rugby
  • Thursday, 30 May 2019

FILE PHOTO: Sunwolves head coach Tony Brown, shown in a file photo, is returning to the Otago Highlanders next season. REUTERS/Feline Lim/File Photo

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Former Otago Highlanders coach Tony Brown is returning to the team from Japan's Sunwolves for the 2020 Super Rugby season, the Dunedin-based side said on Thursday.

Brown, who worked as an assistant to Jamie Joseph at the 2015 champions and then as head coach before he joined his former All Blacks team mate in Japan, will be an assistant to head coach Aaron Mauger, the team said.

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