{"id":559658,"date":"2026-03-23T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559658\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:13:07","slug":"toby-booth-harlequins-forwards-coach-to-leave-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559658\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Booth: Harlequins forwards coach to leave at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harlequins have confirmed that coach Toby Booth will depart from his season-long consultancy role at the end of the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Ospreys head coach joined the London outfit in September 2025 as forwards consultant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Booth will see out the current campaign with Quins before turning his attention to a coaching role with Rugby World Cup 2027 qualifiers, Hong Kong China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Harlequins is a great club with rich history. It has strong roots and a loyal supporter base, things I have always championed and believed in,&#8221; Booth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quins.co.uk\/article\/booth-to-depart-at-end-of-the-season\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I jumped at the chance to come back, even just for a short spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite the recent frustrations I am sure the good times are just around the corner, I will enjoy watching the team&#8217;s progress from Hong Kong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Booth worked as director of rugby with London Irish, before spells as first-team coach with Bath and assistant coach at Quins before joining Ospreys, who he guided to the United Rugby Championship play-offs in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quins have struggled this season winning just two games from 11 in The Prem and sitting just one place off the bottom of the top flight table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlequins have confirmed that coach Toby Booth will depart from his season-long consultancy role at the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-559658","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\/559658","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=559658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}