Saracens Director of Rugby Mark McCall will stand down at the end of the season and bring an \u2060end to a fruitful 15-year spell in charge.<\/p>\n
Former Ireland international McCall took on the role during the 2010-11 season and led Saracens to six Premiership titles and three European Champions Cups during his tenure.<\/p>\n
“I’m immensely proud of what we’ve achieved at Saracens and grateful for the opportunity to have led the rugby programme for so long,” McCall said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“I feel the time is right for change, while still remaining deeply involved in the club I care so much about. I’m \u2060really looking forward to supporting Brendan and contributing in a way that helps \u2060Saracens continue to move forward.”<\/p>\n
Saracens added that McCall will be replaced by former Springbok centre Brendan Venter.<\/p>\n
Venter \u2060was the \u2060north London club’s Director of Rugby before McCall and played a role in recruiting him.<\/p>\n
“My association with Saracens has been continuous for more \u2060than seventeen years,” said Venter, who has worked for Saracens as a technical advisor for 15 years.<\/p>\n
“I’m incredibly proud to once again lead the rugby programme. Mark’s continued involvement was key to me accepting the appointment.”<\/p>\n
Saracens are sixth in the Premiership standings and next play Newcastle on \u2060Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saracens Director of Rugby Mark McCall will stand down at the end of the season and bring an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-259913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}