The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) introduced Dave Reddin as its new director of rugby on Friday.
Reddin has beforehand loved various health and efficiency roles, together with at England rugby, the English Soccer Affiliation and Group GB, however he’ll now step into a task overseeing all males’s and girls’s rugby in Wales, the place he should engineer a strategy to cease an notorious dropping streak.
Reddin’s first job will probably be to nominate a brand new males’s head coach to exchange Warren Gatland who stepped down amid a now-17-game streak of defeats that stretches again to the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
A supply instructed ESPN that Scotland defence coach Steve Tandy is the favorite to get the pinnacle teaching job.
Nonetheless, if the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) do handle to influence Tandy to take up the pinnacle coach position, then a compensation bundle will should be agreed with the Scottish Rugby Union and Tandy is unlikely to be in place for Wales’ summer season tour of Japan.
Reddin’s first main event will probably be to supervise the Ladies’s Rugby World Cup to be held in England later this summer season.
Like its males’s facet, Wales have endured a troublesome Ladies’s Six Nations as they appear to keep away from the wood spoon of their closing recreation towards Italy on Sunday.
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