Eddie Cheika's impact on Leicester Tigers is undeniable, but the long-term implications of his one-year contract remain uncertain. Can he establish a consistent winning formula beyond this season?
Cheika's Tigers revolution continues to gather momentum after a temporary blip at Twickenham as a result snatched from the jaws of defeat, given the circumstances of Leicester’s last-minute try by Dan Cole brilliantly converted by Handre Pollard.
But what about the journey extending beyond next June, which might be the anxious cry from Tigers fans hoping for Cheika to be the answer to the search for an even keel after the up-and-down lurches of recent seasons? He arrived at Welford Road in the summer, as the latest surprise development at the 11-time title winners who had gone from a very close brush with relegation in 2020 to surprise champions under Leicester chief executive Andrea Pinchen did say she was planning or at least hoping for an end to the churn in the coaching positions before Cheika came in as McKellar’s successor. But the deal was announced as a duration of just one year with an option to extend, and Tigers fans are well aware Cheika’s family are in Australia and he has warned them it will take a change in circumstances for him to stay beyond this season. If Cheika does depart, some fans might think the best-case scenario would be a distance consultancy of the kind Chris Boyd, the New Zealander, had with Northampton when he left the Saints in 2022. The contrast would be Boyd’s four years in the East Midlands compared with what might be just 12 months for Cheika. So the turnaround could be of limited scope for a coach whose globe-trotting CV includes one of the great revival jobs at Leinster in the mid-2000s. It may yet pan out very differently but it sounds potentially perturbing to those supporters who travelled in enough numbers to Twickenham to make themselves heard when tries by Ollie Hassell-Collins, Solomone Kata and Freddie Steward kept it nip and tuck throughou
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