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Ambitious Ealing Trailfinders recruit former England rugby league coach
By Nathaniel Cope
Ealing Trailfinders have added some rugby league coaching experience to their ranks as they seek to improve their chances of achieving promotion to the Gallagher Premiership.
Under the guidance of head coach Ben Ward Ealing are second in the Greene King Championship, eight points behind London Irish and face a tricky trip to third-placed Jersey Reds this weekend.
Now Ward will have rugby league stalwart James Lowes as part of his coaching set-up.
Lowes left his job as assistant coach with Super League side Leeds Rhinos to take up the role.
"Jimmy is a great addition to our coaching team. He has a lot of experience and we believe he will be a massive asset in both attack and defence," Ward said.
"Day to day he will improve our players and is the type of character that they will want to play for week in week out.”
49-year-old Lowes is a former Great Britain hooker and played Super League for both Leeds Rhinos and Bradford Bulls.
He began his coaching career at Warrington Wolves and had stints with Leeds Rhinos and Bradford Bulls. He's twice worked with England, as assistant coach under Steve McNamara in 2015 and under Wayne Bennett during the recent Autumn series. He has experience of coaching in union too, with spells at Leeds Carnegie in 2013/14, rejoining Yorkshire Carnegie in 2016 as an assistant to Bryan Redpath, before taking on the head coach role in 2017 however he lasted just a season after a sixth-place finish in the Championship.
“I am very excited about being given the opportunity to work with Ealing Trailfinders", Lowes said.
The staff and the playing squad shows great ambition. Ben is working hard to take the club to the next level and it’s great to be a part of that.”
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Agreed. As a Saffa I have much respect for the ABs. I also have to say given any option I would ONLY prefer to lose to ABs. To lose to England is probably the most embarrassing think to happen to either of us.
There was a time when both of us lost to England and we both hated it. Thankfully those days are behind us. Kudos to you guys, kudos to ABs. But dear old BS seems to hate us Boks. No idea why.
Go to commentsI got the sense that holding him to it was kickback from SB and the rfu smarting at being jilted quite so soon, so unexpectedly and so publicly.
Seem to remember that they spoke to Gustard before appointing Joe and you really have to think he would have come in at a higher level?
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