Friday Knight Lights wrote:BigD163 wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:
Brown for forward's coach definitely - although I wouldn't be surprised if Sarries have him cutting his teeth in the academy with a view to him being the next forwards coach like they did with Sanderson.
I'm not sure about Brown, Blair or Dalzell for Head Coach because they don't have the experience. I think the SRU have a plan for Blair as there's been no announcement of his role for next year. Who's the under20s coach for this year with Dalzell at LS? Could that be Blair?
Re Brown - definitely not HC but involved in some capacity would be good.
I thought Ben Fisher and Ian Monaghan were the U20 coaches under JD? Or are we expecting that to change?
I worded that poorly, my bad. I meant Dalzell is forwards coach of London Scottish so presumably there will be a new Head Coach of the under 20s and I didn't know if anything has been announced with who the coaches are this year, I thought Mike Blair may be involved.
Gotcha, given the SRU have put some coaches through the UKCC level 4 course I would think it is likely to be one of them? They would be due to finish the 2 year course this year. Phil Smith maybe? I would let Blair have a free flowing sort of advisory/mentor role across all youth teams but not sure he has enough coaching experience yet.
The 1st lot to be put on the UKCC level 4 were:
Kenny Murray (Glasgow Warriors), Stevie Scott (Edinburgh Rugby), Ben Fisher (Edinburgh Academy Skills Coach, Boroughmuir and Scotland under-18), John Dalziel (Melrose and Scotland under-20), Phil Smith (Heriot’s, Glasgow Academy and Scotland Club XV), Calum Forrester (Ayr and Scotland under-19), Stevie Lawrie (Heriot’s, Stewart’s Melville College and Scotland under-16) and Andrew Hall (Hong Kong).
Second lot that started last summer: Ben Cairns (Currie Head Coach and Scotland under-18 Assistant Coach), Ross Miller (BT Sport Academy Skills Coach and former Melrose Development Officer), Nikki Walker (Hawick Head Coach), Fergus Pringle (East Lothian Development Officer and former Currie Assistant Coach), Colin Sangster (Dundee HSFP Head Coach and former Scotland age-grade), Scott Forrest (Ayr Assistant Coach and former Scotland Women 7s coach),