2023-12-22 14:17:22
The Australian Rugby Union, host of the 2027 Men’s World Cup, has appointed Peter Horne as director of performance, with the task of “starting from scratch to develop a new program for the Wallabies”, following their historic rout in the World Cup in France (elimination in pools, ahead of Wales and Fiji). Australian Peter Horne, who will take up his position in February, worked for eleven years in the administration of World Rugby, the governing body of world rugby.
Horne, also a former general manager of English club Saracens, will be responsible for the training, physical preparation and development of players for both men and women, as well as the Australian sevens team, detailed Rugby Australia in a communiqué.
His appointment comes two months after the end of the 2023 World Cup in France where the Wallabies, for the first time in the history of the competition, did not pass the group stage, and less than four years of the 2027 World Cup that they are going to organize.
Rugby Australia is carrying out a reshuffle of the management of high-level rugby in Australia, after accepting the resignation of Eddie Jones from his position as coach on October 30, whose successor is not yet known. Jones took over the reins of the Japan selection which he had already managed from 2012 to 2015.
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