Is allowed to chose his own coaches according to Mark Palmer in today's Sunday Times:
The move is likely to see Calum MacRae, who has impressed as head coach of Scotland 7s, being part of Richard Cockerill’s Edinburgh support staff as a skills specialist. As revealed in last week’s Sunday Times, the former Leicester Tiger will be allowed to decide on his own coaching team, which places a question mark over the future of forwards coach Stevie Scott in particular.
I really think McRae did good work with the sevens so this is intriguing.
On an unrelated note I really think this idea from our supreme leader:
The new roles for Vaughan and Blair are part of an SRU reshuffle which will continue into the summer.
Scott Johnson, the SRU director of rugby responsible for coach development, has long been keen to introduce a “performance group” of centrally employed coaches who can be allocated to specific age-grade, sevens and women’s teams according to their needs. If Johnson’s plan comes to fruition, there would be a clearer progression route for aspiring young coaches such as Nikki Walker, Calum Forrester, Roddy Grant and Ben Cairns.
Centrally contracted SRU coaches getting quality and varied coaching can only be good. It's a real shame Cotter took Gray to Montpellier as breakdown coach as if every player in Scotland had that guy working with them watch out. 16 year olds getting world class breakdown coaching would've been amazing.