Earlier this summer, WRU director of rugby Dave Reddin ruled out any coaches combining permanent club and country duties by insisting Wales was not a long-term part-time job.<\/p>\n
Sherratt and Wilson gave up their respective head coach roles with Cardiff and Harlequins to take on permanent Wales assistant positions.<\/p>\n
In contrast, Patchell, Jones and Lydiate will initially be involved on a interim basis for this campaign, on secondment before returning to their professional sides.<\/p>\n
“Bringing Duncan, Dan and Rhys in for the autumn to work alongside Steve, Danny and Matt gives us a good balance in the coaching team,” said Reddin.<\/p>\n
“We said at the outset we might have some interim appointments and this is the right option for us at this point.”<\/p>\n
Rhys Thomas, Adam Jones and Gethin Jenkins were involved on the summer tour of Japan but have returned to their clubs.<\/p>\n
Warren Gatland stepped down from his head coach role in February with no members from his backroom staff now remaining in the Wales men’s senior set-up.<\/p>\n
Rob Howley and Mike Forshaw have left the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), while there has been no mention of the position of former forwards coach Jonathan Humphreys.<\/p>\n
Neil Jenkins will continue full-time with the WRU as a skills coach, working with players throughout the men’s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this summer, WRU director of rugby Dave Reddin ruled out any coaches combining permanent club and country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-217828","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\/217828","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=217828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}