England’s Next Coach: Ranking the Possible Successors to Stuart Lancaster

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Published: November 12, 2015

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The inevitable came to pass on Remembrance Day with the departure of Stuart Lancaster from his role as England’s head coach.

England’s failure to progress from their World Cup pool was always likely to signal the end of Lancaster’s time in the job, and with the fallout encompassing training ground rows, bad share tips and the Sam Burgess debacle, his regime began to look somewhat calamitous by the end.

Despite the time Lancaster spent on overhauling the culture in the squad, he will not be retained in any capacity by the Rugby Football Union, while the man who gave him the job—and a six-year contract—chief executive Ian Ritchie, is now charged with the task of finding his replacement.

Ritchie appeared to narrow the field in the first post-Lancaster press conference by insisting England will go for a coach with proven international experience. This points strongly to the next man being an overseas name.

Only Mike Ford, Dean Ryan and Steve Diamond are current Premiership coaches with experience inside international set-ups; Ford with Ireland and England, Ryan briefly with Scotland and Diamond with Russia.

Ford ruled himself out in an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live in October, and Diamond’s role with the lowly Russians hardly smacks of the world-beating pedigree the RFU will now look for in their next man.

Ryan’s credentials as a coach and analytical thinker are sky high thanks to his work as a pundit on Sky Sports and his column in the Guardian, and he was another name linked before Lancaster’s appointment.

But the former Wasps and Newcastle back rower poured fresh cold water on the idea, per Ian Morgan of the Worcester News.

I am not even interested in the speculation.

I signed up here (Worcester Warriors) for a specific challenge and I have no interest in my life or anything else being anywhere...
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