The former Fiji rugby international Greg Smith has been named coach of the New Zealand women's team.
He replaces Brian Evans who has coached the Black Ferns since 2009, and stood down after their fifth place finish at this year's World Cup.
As a player, Smith amassed 48 Super Rugby Caps with the Chiefs in Super Rugby and made 46 international appearances for Fiji over nine years - eight of those as captain - including at two Rugby World Cups.
He coached in Japan for five years, and held a number of provincial coaching roles including time as a specialist resource coach for the Chiefs.
For the past two years, he's helped with the Black Ferns and recently was an assistant coach to Manu Samoa, but wasn't keen to talk about why that relationship ended.
"I pulled out of it this year, prior to the tour to the UK. There's a lot of things behind that [and] I'd rather not go into that, to be honest with you".
Greg Smith says the Black Ferns role is an exciting challenge and says there's some work to be done to get back to being the best in the world, but he's really looking forward to it.
