{"id":440295,"date":"2026-02-22T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440295\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:33:10","slug":"wales-line-up-ex-scotland-full-back-peter-murchie-for-defence-coach-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440295\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales line up ex-Scotland full-back Peter Murchie for defence coach role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murchie, a former full-back, won three Scotland caps and made 116 appearances for Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was part of the Warriors&#8217; league-winning side of 2015 and retired at the age of 31 in January 2018 on medical grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 40-year-old initially cut his coaching teeth with French side Stade Nicois as a player-coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He returned to take charge of Ayr, leading them to a league and cup double in 2018-19, before being named head coach of Ayrshire Bulls for the inaugural Super6 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murchie joined Glasgow in March 2021 as he became the first man to record 100 matches as a coach and player for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Murchie, the club&#8217;s defence became one of the meanest in the United Rugby Championship (URC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was a key figure as Glasgow conceded the fewest tries of any team in the competition across the course of the title-winning 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murchie was also part of the Scotland A coaching side in November 2024 before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/articles\/crew1elqzvgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving Glasgow to join Kobe Steelers<\/a> following the end of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murchie, a former full-back, won three Scotland caps and made 116 appearances for Glasgow. He was part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-440295","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\/440295","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=440295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}