The yet-to-be appointed new coach of Wales ladies will report right into a ladies’s rugby lead, a job the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) intends to ascertain in 2025.
That new function is being created within the wake of Nigel Walker’s departure because the governing physique’s government director of rugby. Earlier than his exit, Ioan Cunningham left his function as Wales ladies head coach.
The governing physique acknowledged: “The excessive profile function will straight handle the Wales ladies head coach in addition to set and implement technique for the ladies’s and ladies’ recreation throughout Wales and kind an integral a part of the WRU’s high-performance group”.
Walker stepped down following what the WRU described as a “meticulous and far-reaching evaluation” into the high-performance ingredient of the lads’s recreation, with Warren Gatland persevering with as head coach of the Wales males’s facet regardless of a report 12-Take a look at shedding run.
Walker, chief government Abi Tierney and chair Richard Collier-Keywood have overseen a turbulent interval within the WRU’s historical past, with Welsh rugby’s governing physique saying in November it could apologise for its dealing with of contract negotiations with the senior ladies’s group after admitting “critical failings”.
Collier-Keywood stated that Walker, who was concerned within the preliminary negotiations, had accepted “issues ought to have been completed higher”.
The row got here lower than a 12 months after a damning impartial evaluation into the WRU’s tradition following a BBC Wales investigation discovered it was sexist, misogynistic, racist and homophobic, with these points not correctly challenged.
The WRU has now printed its full report into its governance of the ladies’s recreation.
In consequence, the governing physique additionally introduced: