Promising a global search only to promote the person who was already in the building presents an optical issue. Particularly when that bloke, in this case Gilmore, has a grand total of two league wins this season.<\/p>\n
There are mitigating factors behind Quins\u2019 rotten season, but in footballing terms it would be the equivalent of Tottenham Hotspur giving interim head coach Igor Tudor a five-year contract as manager. Certainly, there was no upsurge in champagne corks being popped around the Harlequins supporter base \u2013 beyond the standard fare for a Tuesday night in Surrey \u2013 in reaction to the announcement of the club\u2019s new coaching structure.<\/p>\n
So why have Harlequins, who had been linked with a number of big names, placed so much faith in a coach who has an 18 per cent winning record?<\/p>\n
\u2018He can get the best out of this group\u2019<\/p>\n
Firstly, Gilmore is immensely popular with the players, such as England wing Cadan Murley, who were consulted about the appointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis work ethic \u2013 he is first in, last out to leave the building,\u201d said Murley. \u201cBut his biggest thing was his relationships with all the players, whether you are a first-year academy player or senior captain like Alex Dombrandt, he has a brilliant relationship with all the players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think with this team around him now, he can really get the best out of this group and have a clear vision going forward. I can understand the frustration but the fact you have that alignment and willingness to fight for your coach \u2013 I think that this is a massive marker of who you want to have in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promising a global search only to promote the person who was already in the building presents an optical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[48283,171172,5903,23451,217,101,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-gallagher-premiership","tag-harlequins-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-union","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494098","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=494098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}