I’d LOVE if Toonie would do the Edinburgh job but I think once you’ve broken into international coaching you need to swap to another national team to make it not look like a demotion.

If you look at how Franco Smith put himself in the shop window by making a few flirty comments to Welsh media about being a national coach it seems like a one-way street. Basically coaches bide their time at club level, repeat platitudes about not being interested in the international level until their reputation has started to preceed them and then they try to make their move.

There are exceptions to this like coaching a premium club Leinster, Toulouse or La Rochelle but Edinburgh isn’t in the same league. Everrit seemed like more of a necessity to install as coach because no one else was interested. I suspect the players have a tendency to phone it in due to the international spotlight being too intoxicating (or some other issue like that); Mike Blair left under strange circumstances that made it sound like personality issues even though he said it was “family” decision according to him.