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Connacht may flip to a well-known face, Dan McFarland, as they step up their search to interchange Pete Wilkins, who ended his eight-year association with the United Rugby Championship outfit final month.
Wilkins has already landed a brand new job as Benetton’s attack coach on a three-year deal after leaving the Galway-based outfit lower than two years after serving to them attain the United Rugby Championship semi-finals.
And Connacht won’t be too far-off from discovering his alternative with the strategies from well-placed sources that they’re fascinated about talking to McFarland about making a return to the West of Eire.
Oxfordshire-born McFarland, 53, who was educated at Ampleforth Faculty, was an ex-Richmond loosehead when he joined Connacht from Stade Français in 2000 till retiring six years later.
He then worked as an assistant coach at the Sportsground until June 2015, after which he had spells with Glasgow Warriors and Scotland earlier than shifting to Ulster as head coach in 2018, a place he held till leaving six years later.
McFarland is now incomes his dwelling as a forwards coach underneath his former Scotstoun boss, Dave Rennie, on the Japan Rugby League One outfit Kobelco Kobe Steelers, and admitted to The Sunday Times that he loves dwelling in Japan.
“Japan is a superb nation, I’m actually having fun with it. I’ve by no means been right here earlier than, and it’s actually very totally different, which is precisely what I’d hoped for. I’d have been fairly disenchanted if I hadn’t come and thought, ‘whoa!’
“What I’m telling myself is to not search for belongings you love again at residence. You may’t base your life round looking for issues that you simply’re snug with.
“That’s to not say that you simply’re not going to seek out issues that you simply’re snug with, however you’ve obtained to attempt to embrace the brand new issues, discover the brand new issues that you simply get pleasure from.
“There are many them. I’d clearly eaten ramen earlier than, however my ramen expertise over right here is at a very totally different stage.
“My sushi expertise is at a very totally different stage, and the persons are so well mannered, environment friendly and understanding of my ineptitude,” stated McFarland, whose household house is in Glasgow and is the place his spouse and youngsters are primarily based.
