Jaco Pienaar is ready to turn into the brand new scrum coach at Investec Champions Cup finalists Northampton Saints, changing Matt Ferguson when he leaves Franklin’s Gardens on the finish of the season.
Saints introduced in January that Ferguson could be departing the membership when his contract runs out on the finish of June and have been searching for his substitute to hitch Phil Dowson’s teaching workforce later this summer time.
The membership acknowledged that Ferguson’s scrum division performed a key position in Saints lifting the Gallagher Premiership trophy for the primary time in a decade final season within the press launch saying his lengthy goodbye.
Pienaar has spent the final three seasons working because the forwards coach for Suntory Goliath in Japan Rugby League One and spent 4 years with the Sharks earlier than transferring to the Far East.
Former Tuks and Blue Bulls U19 coach labored beneath Robert du Preez, the daddy of the three brothers Rob, Dan and Jean-Luc, who’re chasing a Premiership semi-final place after they journey to Exeter Chiefs subsequent weekend.
Dowson admitted to RugbyPass on the finish of January that one in all his largest duties was to work his means via the purposes that had flooded in after it was introduced that Ferguson was leaving.
“Certainly one of my initiatives over this PRC (Premiership Rugby Cup block) is to get caught into that. I feel that’s a piece in progress as we stand.
“We have to evolve and maintain altering, and having totally different messages and totally different supply kinds, I feel, is vital. Clearly, Ferg has had a big impact on the membership and that may’t be undermined.
“So, yeah, there are huge boots to fill, on and off the sector, by way of what he does across the surroundings,” admitted the Black, Inexperienced and Gold’s boss, who’s plotting the downfall of Bordeaux in Cardiff this weekend.
