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Dickinson swaps Bristol for Glasgow
By Sam Smith
Scrum coach Alasdair Dickinson will join Glasgow Warriors coaching staff ahead of the 2021/22 season, leaving his current role at the Bristol Bears.
Bristol announced this morning that former All Black and current Bears tighthead John Afoa would be taking over Dickinson's role of scrum coach at the Pat Lam coached side.
“It will be great for me and my family to be back in Scotland," Dickinson told glasgowwarriors.org, “I’m really excited to join Glasgow Warriors.”
"I feel I owe a lot to Scottish Rugby and to get an opportunity to coach at the professional level in Scotland is quite rare and something I couldn’t turn down.
The former Scotland international made 58 appearances for his country and will join Glasgow in the summer. The 37-year-old is a highly rated coach and has seen success working on the scrum of the English Premiership leaders Bristol Bears.
Since retiring from playing in 2018, the Dundonian has also worked with Scotland Women, Scotland U20s and the FOSROC Scottish Rugby Academies in addition to his role with the Bears.
“I’ve had a great time working at Bristol. Working in a world class environment where we are challenging for Premiership and Champions Cup silverware has been a great learning experience.
“I’ve played with and seen the development of the likes of Zander [Fagerson] and Simon [Berghan] and I’m looking forward playing a part in continuing to develop Glasgow’s front row and the club’s scrum platform.”
On the appointment of Dickinson, Head Coach Danny Wilson said: “Al is a passionate Scotsman whose playing career speaks for itself.
"He's had a successful transition into coaching including a recent successful period as scrum coach with Gallagher Premiership leaders Bristol Bears
“Al is a great addition to our backroom staff. He’ll have learnt a lot from his time working with Bristol and we look forward to welcoming him to Scotstoun.”
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Thats exactly the criticism Ed, that it has already been done for generations. A strong SA, in many respects, should certainly help African rugby develop. You'd have to think they'd acclimatize much better being drawn to a pro SA club than say a European. Hopefully the fact theyve gone private (is that right Graham?) should enable this sort of change.
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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