{"id":927,"date":"2025-11-13T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=927"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:00:02","slug":"john-mitchell-world-cup-winning-head-coach-to-support-gloucesters-backroom-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"John Mitchell: World Cup-winning head coach to support Gloucester&#8217;s backroom team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester are currently without a win in the Prem this season having lost their first five matches of the campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have conceded 190 points &#8211; only bottom-of-the-table Newcastle Red Bulls have conceded more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester said Mitchell will focus on &#8220;improving tackle and collision effectiveness&#8221; within the team&#8217;s &#8220;overall defensive development&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named World Rugby&#8217;s coach of the year following England&#8217;s win at Twickenham, having also guided the Red Roses to a fourth consecutive Six Nations Grand Slam and seventh straight title in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also worked as head coach of Sale Sharks in the 1990s and has held roles in the United States, Australia, South Africa and Japan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester next play Bath in the Prem Rugby Cup on Friday, 14 November before returning to league action at home to Harlequins on Saturday, 29 November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloucester are currently without a win in the Prem this season having lost their first five matches of the campaign. They have conceded 190 points &#8211; only bottom-of-the-table Newcastle Red Bulls have conceded more. Gloucester said Mitchell will focus on &#8220;improving tackle and collision effectiveness&#8221; within the team&#8217;s &#8220;overall defensive development&#8221;. He was named World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","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\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}