{"id":13712,"date":"2026-04-23T21:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13712"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:39:13","slug":"nick-evans-harlequins-attack-coach-to-leave-after-18-seasons-at-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13712","title":{"rendered":"Nick Evans: Harlequins attack coach to leave after 18 seasons at club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harlequins&#8217; all-time points scorer and current attack coach Nick Evans is to leave the Prem side at the end of the season after 18 seasons. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evans has been Quins&#8217; attack coach since 2017, having moved to the backroom staff after retiring from a playing career in which he was one one of the club&#8217;s most successful signings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The New Zealander joined the London side in 2008 and won the Prem title first as a player in 2012 then again as a coach in 2021, while he joined Steve Borthwick&#8217;s England set-up for the 2023 Six Nations as attack coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After 18 years of living and breathing this club, it&#8217;s incredibly difficult to put into words what it means to myself and my family,&#8221; Evans said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I leave feeling hugely grateful and honoured not only to have worn the shirt and represented those legends who came before us, but also to have shared that journey as a player and a coach with the incredible supporters who make this club so special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlequins&#8217; all-time points scorer and current attack coach Nick Evans is to leave the Prem side at the end of the season after 18 seasons. Evans has been Quins&#8217; attack coach since 2017, having moved to the backroom staff after retiring from a playing career in which he was one one of the club&#8217;s most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}