Head coach history
So I was listening to the RTE rugby podcast. They were talking about where Munster are at and how they’ve been over the last few years and talked about staffing and coaching etc and how they’ve had established head coaches consistently.
Got me thinking about Ulster ls coaching history, and how we never seem to attract proper head coaches.
Now I like Murphy and I understand why he is in situ, the whole team is in a growing and developing phase. But he came in with u20 head coach experience and previous kicking coach experience. Not exactly top senior level professional experience.
Before that we had DMF. While Dan had Ulster in a very good place for a couple of seasons, that quarter final loss at home to Connacht was the start of the end. He came in from a forward coach role, again no head coach experience.
Before that was Jono, internally promoted from an assistant role, before that was Les Kiss, from Ireland defence coach role.
That’s the last 12 years.
Meanwhile, the other provinces have had Stuart Lancaster (Leinster and Connacht), pat lam, Rassie, JVG, Neinabar as a bloody assistant coach!
When is it our turn?