{"id":654985,"date":"2026-06-24T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654985\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:15:11","slug":"brad-cooper-harlequins-sign-super-rugby-champions-attack-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654985\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Cooper: Harlequins sign Super Rugby champions&#8217; attack coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harlequins have appointed Brad Cooper as their new attack coach, as they continue to reshape their backroom staff for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper joins from Super Rugby champions Hurricanes, who averaged 41 points per game during the regular season, and scored 114 tries on their way to the trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s clear there&#8217;s a real ambition here to play rugby with tempo, and that&#8217;s exactly the environment I want to be part of,&#8221; Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quins.co.uk\/article\/cooper-confirmed-as-attack-coach\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a great chance to help shape an attacking identity at a club with such history, and test myself as a coach in the northern hemisphere in the Gallagher Prem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper will join Great Britain rugby league legend Sean Long and former Quins player Jordan Turner-Hall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cr7x83p3797o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the first-team backroom staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will work under head coach Jason Gilmore as Quins aim to shake off a malaise that meant they finished ninth in the Prem table this season, their worst performance for eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlequins have appointed Brad Cooper as their new attack coach, as they continue to reshape their backroom staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654985","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\/654985","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=654985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}