Former England fly-half Dave Walder has agreed to turn out to be Exeter Chiefs’ new assault and backs coach this summer season to work underneath new head coach Rob Hunter.
The Chiefs are simply ready for Walder, 46, presently England U20s assault coach who was capped 4 occasions by the Purple Rose, to formally signal his contract earlier than making an announcement.
A former Director of Rugby at Newcastle Falcons, the place he had a distinguished enjoying profession, Walder left the Falcons on the finish of the 2022/23 season and moved to the West Nation to hitch the Bristol Bears. Walder solely lasted one season on the Bears, the place he was changed by Sean Marsden.
Chiefs boss Rob Baxter demoted his shut good friend Ali Hepher from his job as Chiefs head coach to assault and backs coach two weeks in the past, and it quickly grew to become clear that Walder can be moving into his sneakers at Sandy Park from this summer season.
“We received’t be making an announcement on who it’s till they’re blissful to make that announcement. We’re just about executed with the entire means of who the particular person goes to be,” Baxter stated in the identical week that the Hepher information was damaged.
“With the depth of conversations we’ve had there may be an consciousness of the place we wish to head, how we wish to play, what we wish to do.
“The fact is the one that is coming in has actually bought to have the ability to work intently with Rob Hunter. Rob’s going to be in there main the teaching programme.
“He’s going to speak about how he needs the assault to look, the defence to look, how he needs the forwards to look,” admitted the Chiefs boss.
It’s not the primary time that Premiership strugglers Chiefs have wielded the axe on their teaching employees after parting firm with defence coach Omar Mouneimne in November and selling Exeter College boss Haydn Thomas.
