Former Newcastle Falcons head coach Alex Codling has been appointed as the brand new forwards coach for the Eire ladies’s rugby workforce.
Head coach Scott Bemand confirmed the teaching workforce for the upcoming Check match towards Australia in Belfast and the WXV1 marketing campaign in Vancouver. After main Eire to a third-place end within the Guinness Ladies’s Six Nations and securing qualification for the Rugby World Cup 2025, Bemand is targeted on the upcoming one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary Check match towards Australia.
Former England worldwide Codling brings loads of expertise to the function. He joins the teaching workforce alongside Hugh Hogan – who has been named defence coach – and former Exeter Chiefs and Ulster sharp shooter Gareth Steenson; who is available in as kicking coach.
Denis Fogarty continues as scrum coach for a 3rd season. Former Eire worldwide and Grand Slam winner Maz Reilly will be part of Bemand’s teaching workers as a World Rugby coach intern, including additional experience to the workforce.
Codling was most just lately head coach at Newcastle Falcons whereas Hogan has held senior teaching roles with Leinster, Scarlets, and Suntory Sungoliath in Tokyo.
“Alex, Hugh and Gareth have been working with the Ladies’s Excessive Efficiency Programme on the Excessive Efficiency Centre in current weeks and have settled in nicely, bringing recent power and focus to the group as we put together for our opening match of the season and the WXV marketing campaign in Canada this Autumn.
“It’s also thrilling to have Maz on board with us, having been a stalwart within the inexperienced jersey throughout her enjoying days and proven enormous teaching potential in her function with Leinster in current seasons. We sit up for coming collectively as a full enjoying and workers group subsequent Monday to hit the bottom operating forward of the thrilling alternatives forward.”
John McKee will transfer into a brand new function throughout the Ladies’s Excessive Efficiency Programme.
Bemand’s squad will assemble for camp in early September.
