{"id":18998,"date":"2024-06-22T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dan-mckellar-leicester-tigers-australian-head-coach-leaves-by-mutual-consent\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:13:43","slug":"dan-mckellar-leicester-tigers-australian-head-coach-leaves-by-mutual-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dan-mckellar-leicester-tigers-australian-head-coach-leaves-by-mutual-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan McKellar: Leicester Tigers&#8217; Australian head coach leaves by mutual consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Head coach Dan McKellar has left Leicester Tigers by mutual consent after only one season in charge of the Premiership club.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 47-year-old former ACT Brumbies boss stepped down as Australia forwards coach to take the role, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/64726413\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">joining on a &#8220;long-term deal&#8221;<\/a>  as the permanent replacement for Steve Borthwick following his appointment as England coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the Tigers endured a disappointing season, finishing eighth in the Premiership, 11 points off a play-off spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/68749631\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beaten by Leinster<\/a> in the last 16 of the Investec Champions Cup and lost the Premiership Cup final to Gloucester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cw44rv0xz7zo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Dan McKellar has left Leicester Tigers by mutual consent after only one season in charge of the Premiership club. The 47-year-old former ACT Brumbies boss stepped down as Australia forwards coach to take the role, joining on a &#8220;long-term deal&#8221; as the permanent replacement for Steve Borthwick following his appointment as England coach. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19000,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions\/19000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}