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Richard Cockerill, head coach of Georgia’s national rugby team, attends an AFP interview at the Shevardeni base in Tbilisi on April 3, 2025. (Photo by Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE \/ AFP) (Photo by GIORGI ARJEVANIDZE\/AFP via Getty Images) https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/urc-side-enter-ring-in-bid-to-land-richard-cockerill\/ <\/p>\n
Benetton<\/a> Treviso are the latest club to speak to in-demand former England<\/a> assistant coach Richard Cockerill<\/a> and have emerged as serious rivals to Brive<\/a> for his signature.<\/p>\n Treviso are looking for a new head coach, with Callum MacRae leaving the United Rugby Championship<\/a> outfit at the end of the season to join Dan McFarland at Newcastle<\/a> Red Bulls.<\/p>\n Cockerill, 55, who has been looking for another job since he was sacked as head coach of Georgia<\/a> and the Black Lions<\/a> before Christmas, has been linked with a number of jobs since then.<\/p>\n RugbyPass revealed that he was in the running to join Stuart Lancaster, who is looking for a scrum coach at Connacht, but talks never really progressed past the initial stage.<\/p>\n He then became the shock favourite to become Brive\u2019s new head coach after they failed to lure Joe El-Abd away from Steve Borthwick\u2019s England coaching staff.<\/p>\n The Pro D2<\/a> side are looking for a new boss, with sporting director Pierre-Henry Broncan set to take over Cockerill\u2019s former job with the Georgian national team at the end of the season.<\/p>\n It was widely assumed that he would throw his hat into the ring at both Gloucester<\/a> and Harlequins, but they are both understood to be looking elsewhere while he looks abroad.<\/p>\n The former England hooker Cockerill speaks good French from the two years he spent at Montferrand, now ASM Clermont<\/a> Auvergne, from 2002 to 2004.<\/p>\n He has worked as head coach in France<\/a> at Toulon<\/a> in 2017 and at Montpellier<\/a> in 2023, and being free from any contractual obligations was a major appeal to Brive bosses when they spoke to him last month.<\/p>\n But Treviso, who are 11th in the URC table with 21 points and play the Dragons away on 28 February after returning from a mid-season break, have become a threat that could torpedo Brive\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens united-rugby-championship Richard Cockerill, head coach of Georgia’s national rugby team, attends an AFP interview at the Shevardeni…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421885","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=421885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}