The former IRFU high performance director will call the shots for the Scots from November until 2027.
Back-to-back home tonkings by South Africa only emphasised the gap between the Wallabies and the world’s top sides and now the man tasked with closing it has upped and left for a competitor.
But less than 10 months after his recruitment by RA, Nucifora will again depart for Europe, this time for Scotland as ostensibly their high performance director. The 62-year-old will call the shots from grassroots to test rugby. Among his primary goals will be to improve Scotland’s development pathways, which have dried up to an extremely concerning extent.Nucifora’s arrival is an early coup for new SRU chairman John McGuigan. Ireland won four Six Nations under Nucifora’s watch — Scotland last won the title when it was still the Five Nations in 1999.
Nucifora will work closely with men’s senior head coach Gregor Townsend in pursuit of on-field success.
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