Tub head of rugby Johann van Graan has signed a brand new long-term contract with the Gallagher Premiership facet as he continues his revival of one among English rugby’s most historic golf equipment.
Van Graan joined Tub from Munster in 2022 and guided the staff to Champions Cup qualification in his first season. His new deal will see him keep in cost till not less than the top of the 2029-30 marketing campaign. The South African’s dedication is a large enhance to Tub’s long-term planning.
Van Graan’s facet presently sit third within the Gallagher Premiership desk after years of earlier underachievement. Tub are in a very good place for an end-of-season play-off spot.
Van Graan mentioned: ‘I’m proud to be committing my future to this historic membership and I’m loving the journey we’re on. Rugby is about individuals, function, creating reminiscences and making a distinction and my household and I are wanting ahead to our future in Tub.
‘I might wish to acknowledge and thank the board, employees, gamers, and supporters who collectively make Farleigh Home and The Rec such particular locations. We’re creating a novel tradition with function.
Johann van Graan has signed a brand new long-term deal at Tub that can run till not less than the top of the 2029-30 marketing campaign
Tub are presently in a very good place this season to seal an end-of-season play-off spot
Van Graan has constructed a robust squad at Tub and the facet are presently third within the Premiership
‘The journey now we have been on collectively as gamers and employees since I joined has been about getting higher every single day, changing into a staff that’s powerful to beat, and creating an id that may ship success over the long-term. The perfect is but to come back.’
Van Graan has constructed a robust squad at Tub after signing the likes of Finn Russell, Ollie Lawrence, Alfie Barbeary, Ted Hill and Thomas du Toit.
Tub chief govt Tarquin McDonald mentioned: ‘Since becoming a member of us in 2022, Johann and his staff have delivered a revival on the pitch, created a real staff ethos, and constructed perception in what Tub can obtain. There’s a clear imaginative and prescient, alignment and satisfaction within the shirt.
‘These are thrilling instances for the membership. We have now large ambitions for rugby success, to develop the sport, and to regenerate the riverside with an incredible new house for the membership. We have now the appropriate management in place to know the alternatives forward of us each on and off the pitch.’
Contemporary from their Girls’s Six Nations Grand Slam, England’s Purple Roses have confirmed they’ll face an enormous conflict with world champions New Zealand at Twickenham on September 14.
The match will see the 2 greatest ladies’s rugby groups on the planet go head-to-head with a world document crowd for a feminine match anticipated on the house of English rugby.
John Mitchell’s facet, who defeated France final weekend to win a sixth successive Girls’s Six Nations title, may also face Les Bleus once more at Kingsholm on September 7.
‘We wish to host and play towards one of the best sides on this planet forward of the 2025 World Cup, so these are two fixtures we’re eagerly anticipating,’ mentioned Purple Roses captain Marlie Packer.
England’s Purple Roses sealed a Six Nations Grand Slam and can now face New Zealand in September
‘Followers at all times deliver the noise for video games at Kingsholm and with a lot of our squad having connections to Gloucester, it needs to be one other sensible event.
‘Our final two video games at Twickenham have resulted in one of the best two crowds ever recorded in ladies’s rugby. We would like extra!
‘Enjoying the Black Ferns on the house of English rugby is an unbelievable alternative that doesn’t come round all too usually. We will’t await hundreds of our supporters to get behind us on one other big day at Twickenham.’
