The Welsh Rugby Union wants Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Daniel Milton to help develop the next generation of coaches.<\/p>\n
WalesOnline understands the WRU is looking into the prospect of appointing Milton on secondment where he would work within the rugby programme.<\/p>\n
The WRU has been looking for a replacement for former performance coach manager John Neal who recently left. If Milton gets the job he will be responsible for ensuring there is a conveyer belt of quality coaches in Wales to take charge of the national and regional teams.<\/p>\n
There will be a focus on both the men\u2019s and the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
JOIN OUR WALES RUGBY FACEBOOK PAGE Latest news, analysis and much more<\/a><\/p>\n The WRU’s technical director Rhys Long wants to place a strong emphasis on coach development over the next few years, making this an important role.<\/p>\n Milton is currently a senior lecturer and researcher in Physical Education & Sport Coaching in the Cardiff<\/a> School<\/a> of Sport and Health Sciences<\/p>\n He was head of rugby at Cardiff Met but stepped away two years ago; Dai Young is now in charge of the programme.<\/p>\n Milton is very highly regarded within the Welsh game having helped develop a top-class rugby programme at Cardiff Met, which former England and Australia coach Eddie Jones once described as “a breeding ground for Test match rugby players.”<\/p>\n Wales star Aaron Wainwright and England international Alex Dombrandt came through the Cardiff Met programme while Milton was at the helm.<\/p>\n He has also previously been the attack coach for the Wales U18s team.<\/p>\n Over the next few years there will be an onus on developing more top-class Welsh coaches who can coach at the highest level.<\/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":"The Welsh Rugby Union wants Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Daniel Milton to help develop the next generation of coaches.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55,9051],"class_list":["post-645752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-welsh-rugby-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645752","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=645752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}