{"id":505761,"date":"2026-02-26T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505761\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:11:08","slug":"wru-appoints-rhys-long-as-new-technical-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505761\/","title":{"rendered":"WRU appoints Rhys Long as new technical director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As technical director, Long will be responsible for designing and delivering performance strategies across both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s games for both the national and regional teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will also play a key role in any national coaching appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long said he wanted to develop a &#8220;uniquely Welsh performance model and DNA&#8221; to restore a winning mentality across the game in Wales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;This is an important time to join Welsh rugby, we are in a period of transition but bold steps towards a successful future have already been taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WRU director of rugby Dave Reddin said: &#8220;Rhys will play a key role in defining and embedding a Welsh rugby DNA in the principles of how we play, coach and our Welsh identity across both our men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s pathways and senior teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As technical director, Long will be responsible for designing and delivering performance strategies across both the men&#8217;s and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-505761","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\/505761","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=505761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}