{"id":507947,"date":"2026-02-27T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507947\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:10:10","slug":"tyrone-holmes-appointed-wales-womens-defence-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/507947\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrone Holmes appointed Wales women&#8217;s defence coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tyrone Holmes has been appointed Wales&#8217; defence coach as they prepare for the 2026 Women&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holmes, 39, brings experience of women&#8217;s Test level rugby having held the same role with Scotland for the past three years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South Africa-born former flanker was capped by Scotland and played for Glasgow Warriors when they won the Pro12 title in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also had stints with Western Province, Stormers, Toulon, Northampton, Petrarca and Newcastle before retiring in 2016 and starting his coaching career with Stade Nicois in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The opportunity to coach Wales at international level with a Women&#8217;s Six Nations on the horizon is one I am excited by,&#8221; said Holmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrone Holmes has been appointed Wales&#8217; defence coach as they prepare for the 2026 Women&#8217;s Six Nations. Holmes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-507947","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\/507947","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=507947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}