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England reveal latest coaching hire is hockey guru
By Ian Cameron
Former Great Britain Hockey coach Danny Kerry has joined the England staff as training coordinator, the RFU have revealed.
Kerry - who was bestowed with an MBE in 2017 for his exploits in hockey - is someone Jones has known for a "long-time" and will be hoping will ramp up England's coaching efficiencies.
Kerry previously spent 17 years at Great Britain Hockey, where he was the most successful coach in their history. He led Team GB’s women’s field hockey to a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Meanwhile, England Rugby confirmed that Joe Lewis will move to a full-time senior analyst role, working closely with forwards coaches Richard Cockerill and Matt Proudfoot.
Jones said: “I’ve known Danny for a long time and his depth and breadth of coaching knowledge will be a real asset to us as staff as we work towards becoming the best coaching team in the world.
“Joe will move back to an analyst role where he has a real impact and suits his strengths and skills.”
At the moment, the key for Jones might be in hanging on to coaching talent.
There's been a lot of coaching turnover under Jones' regime. The latest heading to the exit is Australian Anthony Seibold. England look set to lose the former rugby league coach to the NFL, which will make him the latest defence coach to pack his bags after New Zealander John Mitchell left the set-up last year.
According to Aussie media, Seibold is set to be named as the new Manly Sea Eagles head coach. The Australian was recruited just one year ago to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Mitchell to Wasps, but it’s now being reported that the prospect of coaching at the 2023 World Cup will not be enough to convince Seibold to delay his return to the NRL.
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I had a look at the wiki article again, it's all terribly old data (not that I'd see reason for much change in the case of SA).
Number Of Clubs:
1526
Registered+Unregistered Players:
651146
Number of Referees:
3460
Pre-teen Male Players:
320842
Pre-teen Female Player:
4522
Teen Male Player:
199213
Teen Female Player:
4906
Senior Male Player:
113174
Senior Female Player:
8489
Total Male Player:
633229
Total Female Player:
17917
So looking for something new as were more concerned with adults specifically, so I had a look at their EOY Financial Review.
So 80k+ adult males (down from 113k), but I'm not really sure when youth are involved with SAn clubs, or if that data is for some reason not being referenced/included. 300k male students however (200k in old wiki data).
https://resources.world.rugby/worldrugby/document/2020/07/28/212ed9cf-cd61-4fa3-b9d4-9f0d5fb61116/P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf has France at 250k registered but https://presse-europe1-fr.translate.goog/exclu-europe-1-le-top-10-des-sports-les-plus-pratiques-en-france-en-2022/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp has them back up at 300k registered.
The French number likely Students + Club, but everyone collects data different I reckon. In that WR pdf for instance a lot of the major nations have a heavily registered setup, were as a nation like England can penetrate into a lot more schools to run camps and include them in the reach of rugby. For instance the SARU release says only 29% of schools are reached by proper rugby programs, where as the 2million English number would be through a much much higer penetration I'd imagine. Which is thanks to schools having the ability to involve themselves in programs more than anything.
In any case, I don't think you need to be concerned with the numbers, whether they are 300 or 88k, there is obviously a big enough following for their pro scenes already to have enough quality players for a 10/12 team competition. They appear ibgger than France but I don't really by the lower English numbers going around.
Go to commentsOk I understand. Give them my number please Nick.
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