Bathtub head of rugby Johann van Graan has signed a brand new long-term contract with the Gallagher Premiership facet as he continues his revival of certainly one of English rugby’s most historic golf equipment.
Van Graan joined Bathtub from Munster in 2022 and guided the staff to Champions Cup qualification in his first season. His new deal will see him keep in cost till at the very least the tip of the 2029-30 marketing campaign. The South African’s dedication is a large enhance to Bathtub’s long-term planning.
Van Graan’s facet at the moment sit third within the Gallagher Premiership desk after years of earlier underachievement. Bathtub are in an excellent place for an end-of-season play-off spot.
Van Graan mentioned: ‘I’m proud to be committing my future to this historic membership and I’m loving the journey we’re on. Rugby is about individuals, goal, creating recollections and making a distinction and my household and I are wanting ahead to our future in Bathtub.
‘I would wish to acknowledge and thank the board, workers, gamers, and supporters who collectively make Farleigh Home and The Rec such particular locations. We’re creating a singular tradition with goal.
Johann van Graan has signed a brand new long-term deal at Bathtub that may run till at the very least the tip of the 2029-30 marketing campaign
Bathtub are at the moment in an excellent place this season to seal an end-of-season play-off spot
Van Graan has constructed a robust squad at Bathtub and the facet are at the moment third within the Premiership
‘The journey we’ve got been on collectively as gamers and workers since I joined has been about getting higher daily, changing into a staff that’s robust to beat, and creating an identification that may ship success over the long-term. The most effective is but to return.’
Van Graan has constructed a robust squad at Bathtub after signing the likes of Finn Russell, Ollie Lawrence, Alfie Barbeary, Ted Hill and Thomas du Toit.
Bathtub chief government Tarquin McDonald mentioned: ‘Since becoming a member of us in 2022, Johann and his staff have delivered a revival on the pitch, created a real staff ethos, and constructed perception in what Bathtub can obtain. There’s a clear imaginative and prescient, alignment and delight within the shirt.
‘These are thrilling instances for the membership. Now we have huge ambitions for rugby success, to develop the sport, and to regenerate the riverside with an incredible new dwelling for the membership. Now we have the correct management in place to understand the alternatives forward of us each on and off the pitch.’
Recent from their Girls’s Six Nations Grand Slam, England’s Crimson Roses have confirmed they’ll face an enormous conflict with world champions New Zealand at Twickenham on September 14.
The match will see the 2 greatest ladies’s rugby groups on the planet go head-to-head with a world document crowd for a feminine match anticipated on the dwelling of English rugby.
John Mitchell’s facet, who defeated France final weekend to win a sixth successive Girls’s Six Nations title, may also face Les Bleus once more at Kingsholm on September 7.
‘We need to host and play towards one of the best sides on this planet forward of the 2025 World Cup, so these are two fixtures we’re eagerly anticipating,’ mentioned Crimson Roses captain Marlie Packer.
England’s Crimson Roses sealed a Six Nations Grand Slam and can now face New Zealand in September
‘Followers at all times carry the noise for video games at Kingsholm and with a lot of our squad having connections to Gloucester, it needs to be one other good event.
‘Our final two video games at Twickenham have resulted in one of the best two crowds ever recorded in ladies’s rugby. We would like extra!
‘Taking part in the Black Ferns on the dwelling of English rugby is an unbelievable alternative that doesn’t come round all too usually. We will’t look ahead to hundreds of our supporters to get behind us on one other special occasion at Twickenham.’