{"id":182844,"date":"2025-10-07T05:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/182844\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:33:06","slug":"former-england-coach-joins-bath-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/182844\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England coach joins Bath with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bath Rugby has confirmed the immediate appointment of Martin Gleeson as the club\u2019s new Backs and Attack Coach. <\/p>\n<p>Join the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3s8fWrj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RUCK\u2019s WhatsApp community here<\/a>\u00a0and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.<\/p>\n<p>Gleeson joins the Blue, Black and White with a wealth of experience, most recently serving as Assistant Coach at Warrington Wolves in the Super League.<\/p>\n<p>A former rugby league international who represented both Great Britain and England, Gleeson has also enjoyed coaching spells in rugby union with Wasps and England\u2019s senior men\u2019s team under Eddie Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Bath\u2019s Head of Rugby, Johann van Graan, welcomed the addition to his coaching staff:<br \/>\u201cWe are excited that Martin has joined our journey and we are looking forward to what he will add to this team of ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gleeson expressed his enthusiasm about joining Bath:<br \/>\u201cWhat\u2019s not to get excited about? I\u2019ve been watching with a keen eye the team Johann has put together and the journey they\u2019ve been on over the last couple of years. There are a lot of people here I already know, and that was a big factor behind me coming here. I\u2019m really looking forward to building on what Lee [Blackett] has put in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EDITORS PICKS:<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bath Rugby has confirmed the immediate appointment of Martin Gleeson as the club\u2019s new Backs and Attack Coach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-182844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}