John Mitchell has been appointed head trainer of the England ladies’s crew and can start the position q4 after the lads’s Rugby World Cup.
The 59-year-old is recently protection trainer for the Japan males’s crew and can be triumphant Simon Middleton with the Red Roses, whose last fit in rate used to be final Saturday’s Six Nations grand slam-clinching victory in opposition to France.
The males’s World Cup last is on 28 October however Mitchell’s get started date depends on Japan’s fortunes on the match. Following successive Women’s Rugby World Cup last defeats below Middleton, the Kiwis’ number one center of attention would be the 2025 match, hosted by way of England.
Mitchell two times held training positions with England’s males, maximum not too long ago as protection trainer below Eddie Jones from 2018–21. His training CV comprises spells in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and america.
In a remark launched by way of the Rugby Football Union on Thursday, Mitchell stated: “The Red Roses have set an incredible standard and foundation for women’s rugby, being the most successful team in the Six Nations which is a tremendous achievement, and we now have the opportunity to build on this, mature in key areas and become a truly champion side that can rightfully contest for the World Cup in 2025.
“I would like to honor the hugely supportive Red Roses fans with successful performances as we work towards winning and selling out Twickenham Stadium for the Rugby World Cup in 2025.”
Louis Deacon, the former England and Leicester lock, stays as forwards coach and will lead the team until Mitchell’s arrival while Sarah Hunter, the Red Roses’ most-capped player who retired in March, is appointed transition coach.
The RFU statement said Hunter will “paintings with each the senior ladies’s crew and pathway programme.” Lou Meadows becomes attack coach for the senior team, departing her role as under-20s head coach, while Charlie Hayter is the new head of women’s performance.
The RFU executive director of performance rugby, Conor O’Shea, said: “We are overjoyed to be welcoming John again to England Rugby … this will likely be a powerful training crew to take the Red Roses to the following degree of their building.”
Before his spell with England’s males below Jones, Mitchell used to be forwards trainer from 1997–2000. He used to be appointed All Blacks head trainer in 2001 and led New Zealand to 3rd on the 2003 Rugby World Cup, departing after a semi-final defeat by way of the Wallabies.