After four rounds of Super Rugby, Waratahs coach Darren Coleman has a record of one win and three losses, and will soon find out if he has done enough to convince the NSW Rugby board that he deserves a contract extension.

It is far from a straightforward decision. After the first-round loss to the Reds, the Waratahs have beaten the Crusaders and been competitive in narrow defeats to the Highlanders and the Blues. The board will need to decide whether they continue to employ Coleman based on potential or instead point to the cold, hard results that remain unchanged in the record books by any context of improvement.

The Waratahs have lost by two points to New Zealand opposition in Sydney twice in the last two weeks, first coming within a penalty kick of defeating the Highlanders and on Saturday somehow staying in the contest against a physically superior Blues side. Next week, it gets tougher with an away fixture against the Fijian Drua.

Coleman inherited a winless Waratahs side in 2021 and in the next two seasons led them to........

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