{"id":795734,"date":"2026-10-08T08:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795734\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:26:20","slug":"quins-boss-jason-gilmore-sends-out-defiant-response-in-face-of-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795734\/","title":{"rendered":"Quins boss Jason Gilmore sends out defiant response in face of criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published: 14 hours ago | 7 October 2026 14:03 EDT <\/p>\n

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Under-fire Harlequins head coach Jason Gilmore. Photo: Getty Images \"Google <\/a> <\/p>\n

Under-fire Harlequins<\/a> boss Jason Gilmore insists he is the right man to halt the decline and bring the good times back to the Stoop, but says his critics need to be patient.<\/p>\n

Quins legend Ugo Monye described last weekend\u2019s 48-0 hammering at Gloucester, their heaviest league defeat in 26 years, which left them bottom of the Gallagher PREM table, as \u201cone of the worst performances I have ever seen\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gilmore reiterated his side\u2019s performance at Kingsholm was \u2018unacceptable\u2019 when he faced the media again on Wednesday but said there are no easy overnight fixes for the club\u2019s decline since their shock PREM Final win in 2021.<\/p>\n

Since winning their first title in nine years with the 40-38 win over Exeter Chiefs<\/a> at Twickenham, only Gloucester<\/a> and Newcastle<\/a> Red Bulls<\/a> have worse winning records, and the highly likeable Australian is their fourth coach since then.<\/p>\n

The club have seen Billy Millard, Tabai Matson and Danny Wilson all come and go, but Gilmore has pleaded for more time as pressure mounts on the chief executive Laurie Dalrymple and the board.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel I\u2019ve got good experience, and I know this group well. I know the direction that is needed, and I\u2019m not going to deviate from what I know will get this club back to where it needs to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the short-term focus, which is what we want as well. But there are some things within our club that we\u2019ve got to make sure that long term, we\u2019re putting strong foundations in as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cOtherwise, we\u2019ll just keep continuing the cycle that we\u2019ve been in. I definitely believe I\u2019m the right person. Look, probably since we won the competition five or six years ago, the results have been on a steady decline across that period.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo turn those around, that\u2019s where we\u2019ve got to make sure that the foundations of our programme, whether that\u2019s strength and conditioning, coaching, recruitment, or salary cap management.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot there that goes into making sure that your programme is strong, and we\u2019re attacking all of those at the moment. We\u2019ve got to make sure that they set it up successfully, so the club doesn\u2019t bounce up and down each year.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, success like that is quick to lose, and it takes a long time, not a long time, to build. What we don\u2019t want to do is just throw Band-Aid solutions on things where you go up and down, because when you rip the Band-Aid off, you actually don\u2019t get anywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 14 hours ago | 7 October 2026 14:03 EDT mens gallagher-premiership Under-fire Harlequins head coach Jason Gilmore.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795734","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\/795734","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=795734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}