The yet-to-be appointed new coach of Wales girls will report right into a girls’s rugby lead, a task the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) intends to determine in 2025.
That new position is being created within the wake of Nigel Walker’s departure because the governing physique’s govt director of rugby. Earlier than his exit, Ioan Cunningham left his role as Wales women head coach.
The governing physique acknowledged: “The excessive profile position will immediately handle the Wales girls head coach in addition to set and implement technique for the ladies’s and women’ recreation throughout Wales and kind an integral a part of the WRU’s high-performance staff”.
Walker stepped down following what the WRU described as a “meticulous and far-reaching assessment” into the high-performance aspect of the boys’s recreation, with Warren Gatland continuing as head coach of the Wales males’s facet regardless of a record 12-Test losing run.
Walker, chief govt Abi Tierney and chair Richard Collier-Keywood have overseen a turbulent interval within the WRU’s historical past, with Welsh rugby’s governing physique saying in November it might apologise for its dealing with of contract negotiations with the senior girls’s staff after admitting “critical failings”.
Collier-Keywood mentioned that Walker, who was concerned within the preliminary negotiations, had accepted “things should have been done better”.
The row got here lower than a 12 months after a damning independent review into the WRU’s tradition following a BBC Wales investigation discovered it was sexist, misogynistic, racist and homophobic, with these features not correctly challenged.
The WRU has now revealed its full report into its governance of the ladies’s recreation.
Consequently, the governing physique additionally introduced:
