Ireland defence coach Simon Easterby favourite to assume head coach’s duties
Ireland's defence coach Simon Easterby and head coach Andy Farrell during a Captain's Run at Principality Stadium, Cardiff. Photograph: PAFarrell will lead Ireland on their two Test match tour to South Africa — they leave next week — and also be in charge for the four-match November series. His official start date as Lions head coach for next summer’s tour to Australia is December 1st.
“Andy’s away for six months but he’ll still be very much involved in that process of who’s going to come in. After South Africa, we’re planning to sit down and look at how we’re going to run the next season.” IRFU performance director David Humphreys: 'Outlined that he was supportive of a role that Ireland A fixtures would have in giving young players opportunities.' Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
“All the provinces want to get off to a good start, so by announcing it last week we’ve gone very early. They know the coaching team, we’ll give them a broad indication of the group of players we’re looking at, so they’ll know what they have to do to approach weeks one, two, three and four of the URC.”
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