Jonny Holland says he doesn't expect new Leinster senior coach Jacques Nienaber to make sweeping changes to the province in his debut season, but believes the World Cup winner will arrive in Dublin next week with a lot of homework done around his new side.The South African is set to start his new role at the province next week ahead of their BKT United Rugby Championship meeting with Munster on Saturday 25 November, three weeks on from leading the Springboks to a second World Cup title in a row.And Holland, who played under Nienaber when he and Rassie Erasmus were coaching Munster in 2016, says Leinster's replacement for Stuart Lancaster won't have been lying idle since the World Cup celebrations."This fella, I don't know does he do holidays!," Holland joked on the RTE Rugby podcast."If you're going to start in-season, you’d better have your work done or you won’t be able to have a handle on what you do when you come in."If you don't have your work done you’re going to have to observe things until Christmas, you might as well be on gardening leave."You’re making first impressions with a lot of these people.
Yeah, his reputation might precede him but that’s not good enough if you’re going to be a good coach." We need your consent to load this YouTube content We use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.
Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Manage Preferences By the time Nienaber arrives next week, the province will already be five games into their season, and so Holland doesn't expect him to make any major changes during his first season working with Leo Cullen.However, he says the former Munster defence coach will have done