{"id":400463,"date":"2026-01-08T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:36:08","slug":"six-nations-2026-coaching-trio-wait-on-wales-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400463\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Coaching trio wait on Wales choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lydiate combined playing with coaching duties for Dragons in the 2024-25 season when he made 12 appearances before hanging up his boots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old former blind-side flanker has stayed on as part of Filo Tiatia&#8217;s staff with responsibility for the contact area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ex-fly-half Patchell joined Dragons last summer in a part-time role and works with the kickers once a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Tiatia does not know if Wales will request the services of his assistants for the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve not heard anything yet. I spoke to Steve Tandy on Wednesday night about some different things, but I&#8217;ll soon find out,&#8221; said the former Ospreys forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The autumn was a great opportunity for them and they came back from it as better coaches from the exposure to different things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They learnt from working with Danny [Wilson], &#8216;Jockey&#8217; [Sherratt] and Tandy, plus Duncan who is a good mate of mine, over those weeks in camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ospreys and Dragons meet in Bridgend on Saturday, 31 January when their Wales contingents will be missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is one round of URC action during the Six Nations with Ospreys hosting Ulster and Dragons entertaining Benetton on Saturday, 28 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lydiate combined playing with coaching duties for Dragons in the 2024-25 season when he made 12 appearances before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-400463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400463","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=400463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}