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<\/p>\nRugby’s great winner – having won seven Six Nations titles as a coach – appears set to leave France<\/p>\n
Former Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards celebrates the 2012 Grand Slam(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Ever since Shaun Edwards walked away from Welsh rugby in 2019, there has been a longing for the former Great Britain rugby league<\/a> international to return.<\/p>\n During his 11 years working under Warren Gatland<\/a>, Edwards oversaw a stingy defence with Wales. Famously, they conceded just two tries during his first Six Nations<\/a> triumph in 2008.<\/p>\n Then, in 2013, they went through four straight matches without giving up a try.<\/p>\n Understandably given his achievements, Edwards is revered in Wales – perhaps more than the man himself even realises.<\/p>\n With reports in France suggesting he could be set to leave France’s coaching ticket, some Welsh supporters have already urged the Welsh Rugby Union to look into bringing him back.<\/p>\n JOIN OUR WALES RUGBY FACEBOOK PAGE Latest news, analysis and much more<\/a><\/p>\n Whether that happens remains to be seen, but Edwards has said in the past he would be open to coming back to Wales.<\/p>\n “In the future? Yeah, of course,” he told WalesOnline <\/a>back in 2022.<\/p>\n “I love the Six Nations competition.<\/p>\n “It’s a competition I judge myself on because it’s the only time you’re competing against teams who have exactly the same preparation.<\/p>\n “It’s just after Christmas<\/a> when everyone is a bit miserable.<\/p>\n “It’s a historic competition where all the great coaches and players have been in.”<\/p>\n Edwards left in 2019 alongside Gatland, having led Wales to number one in the world that year.<\/p>\n The Wigan-native nearly stayed on under Wayne Pivac<\/a>, although he ultimately ended up joining France after a move back to rugby league fell through.<\/p>\n Even now, letting Edwards go is regarded as a major misstep by the WRU.<\/p>\n Edwards himself believed that Wales’ coaching group shouldn’t have been moved on following the 2019 World Cup – which resulted in a second semi-final.<\/p>\n “I’m surprised they didn’t give him a contract in the first place,” said Edwards after Gatland returned to the post in 2022.<\/p>\n “We’d just won 14 matches on the bounce, got to a World Cup semi-final, won a Grand Slam and then everyone lost their job.<\/p>\n Follow all of our channels to ensure you stay up to date with the latest Welsh rugby news. Sign up to our free daily newsletter here<\/a> and our WhatsApp channel here<\/a> for all the breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby’s great winner – having won seven Six Nations titles as a coach – appears set to leave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,50159,101,56,54,55,9015],"class_list":["post-614317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-shaun-edwards","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales-rugby-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614317","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=614317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}