Wales assistant coach Shaun Edwards is set to remain in his post for the World Cup
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Writing in The Guardian, Wales assistant coach Shaun Edwards reflects on a week he would rather forget.
"After a meeting in London and a few handshakes, I am still the Wales defence coach and the matter of the scuffle following the Ireland game can, I hope, be laid to rest.
"These things happen in rugby. Josh Lewsey and Danny Cipriani come to mind and stories of Leicester players knocking lumps off each other are legion. However, I admit this one was different because it was two coaches going at each other.
"As someone said at the time, an Englishman and an Irishman having a go at each other during the celebration of a Welsh victory sounds like the start of a bad joke. In fact it was a lot more serious than that. But if there is a good side to this unhappy story it is that it has helped me to focus on what I'm doing while illustrating just how much I enjoy doing it.
"As someone else said at another post-Six Nations session this week, coaching Test teams "is addictive" and, as with the England team manager Martin Johnson, it is something I'd like to do for a lot longer. Working with the best players a country has to offer – and particularly a country like Wales – is not just an honour, but I hope brings out the best in me."
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