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Richie Murphy has 7-game audition for Ulster top job
By Neil Fissler
Richie Murphy has been told that he has got a seven-game audition to secure himself the Ulster job on a permanent basis after being handed control at the Kingspan Stadium until the end of the season.
The Ireland Under-20 head coach has been named as Dan McFarland’s replacement after the long-serving boss departed from the Province after six years in charge earlier this week.
Murphy was appointed Ireland's Under-20 head coach in 2021 after, as skills coach, helping Leinster win three Heineken Cup titles and will link up with Ulster after the Under-20s Six Nations.
His first games in charge will come against United Rugby Championship strugglers The Sharks in Durban, and he has been told the job on a permanent basis is his to lose.
Ulster are hanging onto the final place in the URC quarter-finals by their fingertips, and multiple sources have told RugbyPass that there are no plans for them to recruit anyone else.
Ireland Under-20 scrum coach Aaron Dundon has backed Murphy to be a success in Belfast despite never holding a number-ones role at a club before.
“I don't think it was too much of a shock [that he got the job]. We know he is a top-class coach, and he was going to get picked up sooner rather than later,” Dundon told the BBC.
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Let’s make them both Capt. I think we'd get the best of both of them and it would help alleviate some of the pressures of the role. They'd have to confer over on field decisions which should lead to “ learnings “ for both. They are our two best consistent performers.
Go to commentsForget what was said or how many players said it. TONY BROWN IS THE NEW ATTACK COACH. That’s the only story worth freaking out over. The springboks are going to grow their game an awful lot over the next cycle and it’s not just the 19 disgustingly arrogant Irish players who refused to shake Ebens hand and said “see you in the final if you can cheat your way past France” who will find that out first hand.
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