{"id":150099,"date":"2025-09-17T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150099\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:14:10","slug":"toby-booth-set-to-return-to-prem-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150099\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Booth set to return to PREM Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Daily Telegraph are reporting that Toby Booth is set to join Harlequins<\/a> as head coach for the 2025\/26 season, while the club looks for a long-term successor to Danny Wilson.<\/p>\n

Quins need a new head coach after Wilson landed a job with the WRU, as Wales\u2019 men\u2019s defence coach, having been seconded to the team for the summer tour to Japan.<\/p>\n

Booth\u2019s expertise as a forwards coach and experience of the league could make it a match made in heaven, even if it is only a stopgap solution.<\/p>\n

For the past month, the 45-year-old has been working as a part-time consultant for Hong Kong China<\/a> in the build-up to their first Rugby World Cup<\/a> appearance in 2027.<\/p>\n

However, the prospect of coaching in the Premiership again, more than five years after he left Quins to take on the top job at Ospreys, is bound to appeal.<\/p>\n

Booth is still based just outside of Bath, so south-west London is within relatively easy reach, and it is the sort of high-profile job that is in keeping with his CV.<\/p>\n

He first made his name at London Irish, guiding the Exiles to the Premiership final in 2009, losing by a point to Leicester, before enjoying stints as an assistant at Bath<\/a> and then Quins.<\/p>\n

At Ospreys, Booth won praise for steering the region to the\u00a0URC Welsh Shield in both the 2021\/22 and 2023\/24 seasons, despite a plethora of challenges on and off the field.<\/p>\n

Newly-promoted General Manager Andrew Sanger has been leading the rugby operation at Quins since it was announced Wilson was heading west.<\/p>\n

But now Booth is said to be coming in, on the eve of the season, to head up the coaching team that includes Jason Gilmore (defence), Nick Evans<\/a> (attack), Adam Jones<\/a> (scrum) and Matt Ferguson (transition).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Daily Telegraph are reporting that Toby Booth is set to join Harlequins as head coach for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-150099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}