McGuigan for England?
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2025 12:33 pm
https://archive.ph/Fxqua
So, to summarise, we lost our defence coach unexpectedly, (allegedly because he was supposed to be our attack coach, but our defence coach wanted to be our attack coach, so he got shoved into defence), so we signed another defence coach on a job-share agreement, because his club wouldn't let him go straight away, and paid the release fee for him at the end of the season. We spent a season with that defence coach on a job-share and then, just as we got him full-time, we then took a new temporary defence coach on our summer tour as well. Then, after that summer tour, we signed the temporary attack coach that we took on the summer tour (paying a release fee for him), moved our existing attack coach to defence (at his own request), which meant that we then needed to move our new defence coach to forwards (I think?).
Upon doing that, we are apparently trying to get the temporary defence coach that we had in the summer to come join, again on a job-share agreement because his club won't let him go, again with a high release fee, but we're not signing him to be the defence coach, but to be "working around the collision area and with the back 3" and "his value lies just as much in his ebullient personality as it does his technical expertise".
In fairness, we said we wanted to move away from Eddie, and Solid Buildingblocks apparent plan to warehouse as many promising English coach as he can lay his hands on into one ginormous backroom team is the polar opposite of Eddie and his inability to keep assistants. But I'm baffled as to how this all works with *so* *many* *cooks*.
I am actually in favour of McGuigan - he's highly rated, appears to've done a belting job in the summer, and I'd rather we had him than Scotland. However, I can't imagine clubs are going to be interested in lending their coaches to England A or summer tours in the future given Bath and Sale's experience this season.
Puja
So, to summarise, we lost our defence coach unexpectedly, (allegedly because he was supposed to be our attack coach, but our defence coach wanted to be our attack coach, so he got shoved into defence), so we signed another defence coach on a job-share agreement, because his club wouldn't let him go straight away, and paid the release fee for him at the end of the season. We spent a season with that defence coach on a job-share and then, just as we got him full-time, we then took a new temporary defence coach on our summer tour as well. Then, after that summer tour, we signed the temporary attack coach that we took on the summer tour (paying a release fee for him), moved our existing attack coach to defence (at his own request), which meant that we then needed to move our new defence coach to forwards (I think?).
Upon doing that, we are apparently trying to get the temporary defence coach that we had in the summer to come join, again on a job-share agreement because his club won't let him go, again with a high release fee, but we're not signing him to be the defence coach, but to be "working around the collision area and with the back 3" and "his value lies just as much in his ebullient personality as it does his technical expertise".
In fairness, we said we wanted to move away from Eddie, and Solid Buildingblocks apparent plan to warehouse as many promising English coach as he can lay his hands on into one ginormous backroom team is the polar opposite of Eddie and his inability to keep assistants. But I'm baffled as to how this all works with *so* *many* *cooks*.
I am actually in favour of McGuigan - he's highly rated, appears to've done a belting job in the summer, and I'd rather we had him than Scotland. However, I can't imagine clubs are going to be interested in lending their coaches to England A or summer tours in the future given Bath and Sale's experience this season.
Puja
