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Rob Howley to return to Wales
By Ian Cameron
It is being reported that Rob Howley will not be returning to MLR side the Toronto Arrows for the 2024 season.
The former British & Irish Lions coach, who took on the role of assistant coach for both the Canadian Senior Men’s side and the Arrows in the fall of 2020, will bid farewell to the Major League Rugby side and Rugby Canada as his contract concludes at the end of this month.
Despite his successful stint with the team, Howley, without an immediate position lined up, is understood to be eager to return home to Wales, according to Americas Rugby News.
His desire to rejoin Warren Gatland’s coaching team for the 2023 World Cup was thwarted when the Welsh Rugby Union rejected the bid at the close of 2022.
Howley was booted from the 2019 Rugby World Cup in disgrace after it was revealed he had been placing bets on rugby union.
He was subsequently banned from working in rugby for 18 months, the last nine months suspended, after which he secured a three-year deal with Canada that encompassed the 2023 World Cup, which they failed to qualify for.
Howley had apparently been on the brink of succeeding Conor O'Shea at the helm in Italy when the story of his gambling problem emerged.
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The England backs can't be that dumb, he has been playing on and off for the last couple of years. If they are too slow to keep up with him that's another matter.
He was the only thing stopping England from getting their arses handed to them in the Aussie game. If you can't fit a player with that skill set into an England team then they are stuffed.
Go to commentsSteve Borthwick appointment was misguided based on two flawed premises.
1. An overblown sense of the quality of the premiership rugby. The gap between the Premiership and Test rugby is enormous
2. England needed an English coach who understood English Rugby and it's traditional strengths.
SB won the premiership and was an England forward and did a great job with the Japanese forwards but neither of those qualify you as a tier 1 test manager.
Maybe Felix Jones and Aled Walter's departures are down to the fact that SB is a details man, which work at club level but at test level you need the manager to manage and let the coaches get on and do what they are employed for.
SB criticism of players is straight out of Eddie Jones playbook but his loyalty to keeping out of form players borne out of his perceived sense of betrayal as a player.
In all it doesn't stack up as the qualities needed to be a modern Test coach /Manager
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