{"id":403009,"date":"2026-04-17T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403009\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:13:14","slug":"hes-an-outstanding-human-munster-coach-clayton-mcmillan-defends-decision-to-hire-roger-randle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/403009\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s an outstanding human\u2019 \u2013 Munster coach Clayton McMillan defends decision to hire Roger Randle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chiefs head coach Clayton McMillan with attack coach Roger Randle in 2021. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d07e35d3-e62c-42e0-b067-06e7d235ab57.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chiefs head coach Clayton McMillan with attack coach Roger Randle in 2021. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Embattled Munster head coach Clayton McMillan has strongly defended the club\u2019s decision to hire former All Black Roger Randle as assistant coach for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The appointment of the 51-year-old New Zealander has proved to be a controversial one, with three former players who were members of the Munster Professional Games Board (PGB) resigning in objection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiefs head coach Clayton McMillan with attack coach Roger Randle in 2021. Photo: Getty Embattled Munster head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11896,61,60,11897,16766,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-403009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-clayton-mcmillan","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403009","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=403009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}