{"id":435980,"date":"2026-02-20T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:07:08","slug":"i-think-hell-go-on-to-be-one-of-the-best-if-im-being-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435980\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I think he’ll go on to be one of the best, if I\u2019m being honest’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sale Sharks<\/a> attack coach Joe Ford<\/a> has backed his younger brother George to be a leading coach when he eventually hangs up his boots, but doesn\u2019t believe he will be the best coach in the family.<\/p>\n

The Fords, headed by dad Mike, whose impressive coaching CV includes working for England<\/a> and the Lions, are fast becoming a coaching dynasty.<\/p>\n

Joe returned to the Sharks in the summer from Championship outfit Doncaster Knights, where he was head coach last season, and they now employ the youngest brother, Jacob, whom he tips to be the best coach in the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019ll (George) go on to be one of the best, if I\u2019m being honest. I know it\u2019s never a given, is it? The world\u2019s best players in any sport don\u2019t always go on to be the best coaches, do they?<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think George will. The way he sees the game, you know, his preparation, etc. And how he is with people. That\u2019s probably the most impressive thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s a first-year academy player, a 100-cap international, or Tom Curry<\/a>, he\u2019ll treat them both the same. You don\u2019t always see that in environments, you know.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople will treat people differently dependent on where they rank in the environment, but George will treat people the same, no matter what.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Jacob\u2019s probably going to be the best because he went a lot earlier. Obviously, he didn\u2019t play like me and George did.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he\u2019s already 10 years ahead of me with coaching. He\u2019s been in a lot more environments than me too. I think he\u2019s the one to watch, if I\u2019m being honest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

George starts again for England against Ireland<\/a> this weekend after becoming the social media fall guy for their Calcutta Cup defeat in Edinburgh<\/a> last weekend, facing calls to be replaced by either Fin Smith or Marcus Smith.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it just comes with the job, doesn\u2019t it? Whoever plays in the England number 10 shirt is probably, within rugby, the most talked about position.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe with the exception of the All Blacks<\/a> 10, I don\u2019t know, but everything\u2019s judged. It\u2019s so fickle, isn\u2019t it? One week, he is the starting 10, no matter what.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext week, people are saying he shouldn\u2019t be in the squad at all. But the good thing is it won\u2019t affect George. It doesn\u2019t bother him. He won\u2019t be reading any of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll just go about his business as normal, and he\u2019s starting again this week, and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll continue to shut a lot of people up as he has done throughout his career,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sale Sharks attack coach Joe Ford has backed his younger brother George to be a leading coach when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435980","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\/435980","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=435980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}