World Cup-winning South African coach Jake White wants to coach the Springboks again.
White told Sport24 in South Africa at the weekend that he will apply for the job again next year.
Under-fire incumbent coach Peter de Villiers is contracted until after next year's Rugby World Cup but White said he will apply for the job again, and he will have former Wallabies coach Eddie Jones on board with him as well.
White has a job coaching a house team at Stellenbosch University and also coaches at several top rugby schools.
That was keeping him in touch with the young talent in South Africa's rugby system.
"I am feeling refreshed and have decided that I want to coach the national team again. I assume they will be going through the same tender procedure as last time to appoint the next coach," the 2007 World Cup-winning coach said.
White added that he had never plied his trade offshore but if he was unwanted by South Africa he would consider an overseas position.
White does have connections with Saracens (England), Toulon (France) and Suntory Sungoliath (Japan) and is also on the International Rugby Board's committee.
Should he regain the South African job he would be keen to have Jones, Gert Smal (Ireland) and Allister Coetzee (Stormers-Western Province) back in his management team.
The coaching position was advertised during the Springboks' campaign and White didn't apply due to tiredness and a feeling that the South African Rugby Union didn't want him to stay on.
"But I can't help wondering where the team would be today if I had the same opportunity as Graham Henry to stay on," he said.
Having seen the problems the Springboks have had in their first three games of the Tri Nations, White says the side needs to come up with some new ideas.
"The team that gets the defence right will win the tournament. New Zealand have improved their defence, while ours has gone backwards. We won't make it if we don't come up with some new ideas," he warned.