{"id":432772,"date":"2026-02-18T19:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432772\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:06:09","slug":"gloucester-could-cash-in-on-all-blacks-coaching-break-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432772\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucester could cash in on All Blacks coaching break-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gloucester<\/a> have been linked with a move for the former All Blacks<\/a> assistant coach Jason Holland as they look to reshuffle their coaching staff ahead of next season.<\/p>\n

The CV for Holland, 52, who played in two Heineken Cup finals for Munster<\/a> at the start of the Millennium, when they were defeated by Northampton<\/a> Saints and Leicester<\/a> Tigers, has been floating around.<\/p>\n

The former Ireland<\/a> A international, who started his coaching career with the province, returned to the Hurricanes<\/a> late last year, where he was head coach for four years between 2020 and 2024.<\/p>\n

Holland is working under Hurricanes head coach Clark Laidlaw for the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific<\/a> campaign after leaving Scott Robertson\u2019s coaching team in November after a two-year stint following the Autumn Nations Series.<\/p>\n

He had enjoyed success as an assistant coach helping deliver the Hurricanes their sole Super Rugby title in 2016 and claiming a Heineken Cup, two Celtic League titles with Munster and the 2013 NPC crown with Canterbury.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Gallagher Premiership<\/p>\n

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Harlequins <\/p>\n

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Gloucester <\/p>\n

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Holland has emerged as a leading contender to link up with the Cherry and Whites next season as part of a revamp that will see former agent Rob Burgess, who is Bath\u2019s head of recruitment, return to Kingsholm.<\/p>\n

Burgess, who was previously Gloucester\u2019s rugby manager and then head of rugby operations, is due back at the club for a third time, it is believed, with a general manager job title. <\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t likely to be the only change with England<\/a> World Cup winner Trevor Woodman<\/a> due to speak to United Rugby Championship<\/a> outfit Connacht<\/a> about their soon-to-be vacant scrum coach role.<\/p>\n

Gloucester, who entertain Sale Sharks<\/a> in the PREM Rugby Cup on Friday, have spoken to former Exeter Chiefs<\/a> head coach Rob Hunter about becoming forwards coach next season.<\/p>\n

Ironically, it was a club-record 79-17 loss at Gloucester last year that cost him his job with the Chiefs<\/a> after only four games in charge at Sandy Park, after being promoted from forwards coach after Ali Hepher\u2019s demotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester have been linked with a move for the former All Blacks assistant coach Jason Holland as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-432772","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\/432772","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=432772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}