{"id":41926,"date":"2018-05-20T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/20\/paul-gustards-move-to-harlequins-may-hurt-englands-world-cup-preparations\/"},"modified":"2018-05-20T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T21:51:56","slug":"paul-gustards-move-to-harlequins-may-hurt-englands-world-cup-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=41926","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gustard\u2019s move to Harlequins may hurt England\u2019s World Cup preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Gustard to coach Harlequins after England\u2019s South Africa tour\u2022 Injury to Wasps\u2019 Jack Willis adds to Jones\u2019s back-row problemsEngland\u2019s World Cup preparations have been thrown into turmoil with their defence coach, Paul Gustard, leaving Eddie Jones\u2019s coaching staff to become Harlequins\u2019 head of rugby. It is believed Gustard \u2013 the current England defence coach \u2013 will see out his duties on next month\u2019s tour of South Africa before vacating his role as one of Jones\u2019s key assistants only 15 months before the World Cup.The appointment will be officially announced on Monday by Harlequins, who have reached an agreement with the Rugby Football Union for Gustard\u2019s release. The 42-year-old was contracted with the RFU until after the 2019 World Cup, having been appointed by England in December 2015, and Jones publicly refused to entertain the idea that Gustard may be leaving as recently as last week. He dismissed the notion as \u201crumours\u201d and claimed he had no contingency plan in place but Brad Davis, the Australian who has fulfilled the role at Wasps in the past and currently works at the Ospreys, has already been linked with the post. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/may\/20\/paul-gustard-harlequins-england-world-cup-eddie-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gustard\u2019s move to Harlequins may hurt England\u2019s World Cup preparations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Gustard to coach Harlequins after England\u2019s South Africa tour\u2022 Injury to Wasps\u2019 Jack Willis adds to Jones\u2019s back-row problemsEngland\u2019s World Cup preparations have been thrown into turmoil with their defence coach, Paul Gustard, leaving Eddie Jones\u2019s coaching staff to become Harlequins\u2019 head of rugby. It is believed Gustard \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}