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Brewer to apply for Scotland job

Mike Brewer has told BBC Scotland that he will apply for the Scotland head coach's job before Monday's deadline.
Former All Black Brewer joined the Scotland set-up last year as forwards coach and now wants to become successor to Frank Hadden.
However, Brewer believes Edinburgh coach Andy Robinson is the favourite to land the national job.
"He's probably the best person for the job, if you're looking at progressing your coaches through," Brewer said.
"I will be putting in my application on Monday.
"I'm away around England to see the exiles over the next few days for the Six Nations review and I'm going to get their feedback on how things went and where they think we need to go forward.
"The key thing for the whole of Scottish rugby is to maintain continuity and to keep up skilling the players and at Glasgow and Edinburgh to keep increasing their expectation."

Brewer believes there is potential to develop the Scotland team and considers Six Nations champions Ireland to be a good model for making improvements.
"When you compare the team that won the Six Nations, Ireland, and this current Scottish side, we're probably around two or three years away from reaching their level," added Brewer.
"One of the key components to Ireland's success is that when things get a bit lateral, they know where to put the ball, to keep the opposition under pressure and to maintain that initiative.
"That's one of the key things that comes from years of experience at this level.
"Phil Godman, Graeme Morrison and Max Evans are very, very young in comparison to that Irish back pairing.
"We need to change and a big aspect of it is our intensity at training and our accuracy of execution, which really comes under pressure at Heineken Cup level with Glasgow and Edinburgh and at international level in the Six Nations.

"Our skill level and execution isn't as good as it should be and you have to train at that level to be comfortable playing at that level."
Robinson has been heavily tipped to take over from Hadden, who left the post earlier this month.
But the former England coach insists he will wait until the last moment before deciding whether or not to apply.
"It's all very flattering, the comments that have been made but I'm still going through the process," he told BBC Scotland following Edinburgh's 27-16 win over Leinster.
"There's a deadline and I'm going to use my right to go right to the deadline.
"There's a lot of work to being an international coach and you've got to put heart and soul into it. You need the buy-in from your family and everybody to put yourself in the arena and put yourself in the shop window.
"It's important that I know fully in my mind that it's the right decision for me and I want to make sure that I ask the right people that it's right for me to do and once I've made my mind up then I will either apply or not apply.
"I totally believe in the Scottish players and I believe in Scottish rugby.
"I think that Edinburgh and Glasgow have still got a long way to go in their development and the foundations have been laid but can Edinburgh take the next step?"

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Brewer to apply for Scotland job

Mike Brewer has told BBC Scotland that he will apply for the Scotland head coach's job before Monday's deadline.
Former All Black Brewer joined the Scotland set-up last year as forwards coach and now wants to become successor to Frank Hadden.
However, Brewer believes Edinburgh coach Andy Robinson is the favourite to land the national job.
"He's probably the best person for the job, if you're looking at progressing your coaches through," Brewer said.
"I will be putting in my application on Monday.
"I'm away around England to see the exiles over the next few days for the Six Nations review and I'm going to get their feedback on how things went and where they think we need to go forward.
"The key thing for the whole of Scottish rugby is to maintain continuity and to keep up skilling the players and at Glasgow and Edinburgh to keep increasing their expectation."

Brewer believes there is potential to develop the Scotland team and considers Six Nations champions Ireland to be a good model for making improvements.
"When you compare the team that won the Six Nations, Ireland, and this current Scottish side, we're probably around two or three years away from reaching their level," added Brewer.
"One of the key components to Ireland's success is that when things get a bit lateral, they know where to put the ball, to keep the opposition under pressure and to maintain that initiative.
"That's one of the key things that comes from years of experience at this level.
"Phil Godman, Graeme Morrison and Max Evans are very, very young in comparison to that Irish back pairing.
"We need to change and a big aspect of it is our intensity at training and our accuracy of execution, which really comes under pressure at Heineken Cup level with Glasgow and Edinburgh and at international level in the Six Nations.

"Our skill level and execution isn't as good as it should be and you have to train at that level to be comfortable playing at that level."
Robinson has been heavily tipped to take over from Hadden, who left the post earlier this month.
But the former England coach insists he will wait until the last moment before deciding whether or not to apply.
"It's all very flattering, the comments that have been made but I'm still going through the process," he told BBC Scotland following Edinburgh's 27-16 win over Leinster.
"There's a deadline and I'm going to use my right to go right to the deadline.
"There's a lot of work to being an international coach and you've got to put heart and soul into it. You need the buy-in from your family and everybody to put yourself in the arena and put yourself in the shop window.
"It's important that I know fully in my mind that it's the right decision for me and I want to make sure that I ask the right people that it's right for me to do and once I've made my mind up then I will either apply or not apply.
"I totally believe in the Scottish players and I believe in Scottish rugby.
"I think that Edinburgh and Glasgow have still got a long way to go in their development and the foundations have been laid but can Edinburgh take the next step?"

sarebbe più corretto "CANDIDATO NUOVO ALLENATORE"

Giusto... Brewer semplicemente si propone, come tanti altri. Anche perché, se non rifiuta, il posto al 99,9% è di Andy Robinson... e Brewer verrà pure fatto fuori dallo staff tecnico...

E' un po' come se da noi si candidasse Orlandi

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SRU Narrow Coach List
Sat 25 Apr, 11:09 AM

The Scottish Rugby Union will interview up to eight candidates for the Scotland head coach job.
SRU chief executive Gordon McKie has revealed there were more than 30 applications from around the world for the role left vacant when Frank Hadden stood down earlier this month.

The only two confirmed candidates are former England boss Andy Robinson - the bookies' favourite - and Scotland forwards coach Mike Brewer.

The SRU have announced the five-man interview panel and McKie confirmed between six and eight applicants "had the potential to go forward to the next stage".
As well as McKie and SRU chairman Alan Munro, the interview panel includes three former Scotland captains and British and Irish Lions: Andy Irvine, Andy Nicol and Gordon Bulloch.
Nicol was also captain of the Bath side coached by Robinson which won the 1998 Heineken Cup.

McKie told BBC's Rugby Sportsound: "We were keen to get a strong rugby bias on to the panel.
"We don't want the 'suits' to make the appointment. We want the people who know rugby to assist us.
"It's a critically important appointment. We've got to get this right. The process will be very thorough.
"We will also be taking soundings from other people in the game - not yet named - and we are also delighted to secure the assistance of the Scottish Institute of Sport.
"We've got a very good list of home and overseas candidates and, contrary to rumour, some of them are of a very high pedigree and we're delighted with the response."
He added: "We will pay the market rate to get the right guy, who in turn will be allowed to bring in the right calibre of backroom staff to take the team forward to the World Cup in 2011."

McKie insists Scotland are capable of achieving more than the one victory they have managed in each of the last three RBS 6 Nations championships, results which ultimate cost Hadden his job.
"I believe what we have is an exciting opportunity for a capable coach to take over the Scotland national team, which is clearly a leading nation," said McKie.
"We've got a good young group of players playing in Edinburgh and Glasgow, each of whom have made progress, we've had good attendances and all the fundamentals are there.
"As a nation, we are all joined up. We own our pro teams so we don't have the same issues that other nations have in respect of releasing players in Scotland."

...i London Scottish diventano una nursery della SRU.

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Failure to produce talent sees SRU withdraw funds for its nursery at London Scottish

By DAVID FERGUSON
LONDON Scottish is to be dropped as a nursery for the Scottish Rugby Union, due to an apparent failure to uncover new Scots talent over the past three years.
The SRU had agreed to help fund an academy at the Richmond club, in a step towards supporting the club's terrific rise back up through the English league system. London Scottish celebrated promotion to the new National League One last weekend and are now one step away from entering England's elite leagues, with a second division to be created modelled on the Guinness Premiership.

The SRU is still looking at the possibility of sending fringe professionals south to London Scottish next season, however Gordon McKie, the SRU chief executive, explained in a wide-ranging media briefing yesterday that in order to pursue a project to create a British and Irish Cup that could provide more playing opportunities for rising Scottish talent, the executive board had decided to withdraw its investment to the London Scottish academy.

He explained: "For the last three years we have invested in their academy – a modest sum – ostensibly to provide young age-grade players. For many reasons it had a slow start but, in reality, still has not produced many Scottish players we were not already aware of, and so we intend to withdraw our investment in the London Scottish Academy.

"We are in discussion with them as to other ways we could work together, be that through secondment or assignment of relevant players into their new league next year, and other assistance in lieu of straight financial assistance.

"We still have an exiles network, with two full-time performance development guys who are gathering English-based talent from Leeds to London and the Midlands into their pathway structures which feed players into the Scottish pathway structures up here, but the London Scottish Academy was very much a stand-alone academy, which, over the last three years, has not generated any Scottish-eligible players we didn't already know about.

"We still want to work with London Scottish, but feel we could use that money better. So, in parallel with that we have set aside around £100,000 for what's being called a British and Irish Cup. There are many details to be worked out yet, but it would be a back-up league comprising 24 teams from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and we're in discussion with Premier One clubs about how it could work.

"We would be willing to put three teams into a league of four pools of six teams, meaning five games to be played during the November Tests and Six Nations windows. We will clearly assist and subsidise Premier One clubs to step up to this higher level, but there is a lot more detail to be worked out as to what teams these might be."

There is little doubt that the SRU needs to find some way of creating more opportunity for talented rugby players to make the step-up to the professional stage. Recent Scotland coaches have had to select from a very narrow base in comparison with other nations and the scrapping of the Border Reivers to leave just Glasgow and Edinburgh has merely thrown more Scottish talents either out of pro rugby or into virtual full-time training schedules.

The SRU met with Division One clubs on Tuesday night and McKie said this league, being termed an 'A' league in Ireland – who view it as ideal for their pro sides' reserve teams – could happen as early as next season.

However, there remains resistance to the concept in England and Wales, and even in Scotland the idea throws up many questions that suggest it may take longer to put together, notably whether two clubs qualify for this cup, and how that might affect the league championship, or whether the teams are composite sides of the best club players.

The SRU would put together one team of fringe professionals and academy players, but they would also be available to the two club sides, and McKie accepted that creating a protocol would be tricky. He revealed that he had stood down from the Six Nations Committee and joined the Celtic League Board that manages the Magners competition in order to help progress this initiative.