Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter and Bath coach Toby Booth could join the England set-up for the summer tour to Argentina.
England coaches Andy Farrell and Graham Rowntree will both be away on tour with the Lions in Australia, leaving gaps in Stuart Lancaster's staff which he is eager to fill with coaches from the Aviva Premiership.
Along with Baxter and Booth, Saracens coaching duo Alex Sanderson and Paul Gustard are two more potential candidates, although their participation may not be possible due to England's fixture with the Barbarians coming the day after the Premiership final.
"I'm going to the PGB to ask them if it's okay to use potential coaches from the Premiership," said Stuart Lancaster to The Rugby Paper.
"I think it is a positive thing that Andy and Graham are going on the Lions tour and I think it is a positive thing I can bring other coaches in to work with the players to gain experience of building those club/country relationships.
"I need people who, ideally, are available for the Barbarians week. The Premiership final is that week so that makes it difficult, but we will have to see."
"There are lots of good English coaches coaching in the Premiership who I think would be excited about the opportunity.
"We'll take a four or five man coaching team, and we'll be taking a midweek team to Argentina, too, so it won't be too dissimilar to what we did in South Africa.
"It is a great opportunity for the coaches concerned and I obviously need to make sure I get the right fit that replicates the strengths of Andy and Graham."
Comments
TVaddict says...
England players fairly likely to go with the lions (/ means 'or' with the first name more likely):
Corbisiero(Although injury seems likely to rule him out at this rate), Hartley, Cole, Launchbury, Parling/Lawes, Wood/Croft, Robshaw, Care, Farrell, Tuilagi, Brown, Barritt
England players with less of a chance to go:
T Youngs, Lawes/Parling, B Youngs, Burns, Flood, Croft/Wood, Goode, Foden, Ashton (He only makes this because it seems that only fans can see how average Ashton is)
So if we assume only the first group go then we're looking at a 23 like:
1) Vunipola
2) Youngs
3) Wilson
4) Lawes/Parling
5) Robson
6) Croft/Wood
7) Armitage! Probably more likely Fraser
8) Morgan
9) Youngs
10) Burns
11) Foden/Biggs/May
12) Twelvetrees
13) Jospeh
14) Wade! Or Sharples! Or May! Not Ashton please...
15) Goode/Foden
16) Gray
17) Marler
18) Doran-Jones
19) Kitchener
20) Vunipola
21) Simpson
22) Flood
23) Daly
A young and exciting team. Can't wait to see them play!
Posted 15:04 19th January 2013
ArmchairGeneral says...
Centre 12: yes. Great strength in depth that we can lose most players and relish the replacement. Exception being Cole. In Arg. Could cost us a test.
Posted 10:48 19th January 2013
Centre12 says...
I am actually just as excited about this tour as I am the Lions tour, when you look at the back row for example I doubt Robshaw, Wood, Morgan, Haskell, Armitage, Croft Vunipola will all make the Lions Squad, therefore it should still be quite a strong England Squad going across the Atlantic. The same could be said for #10 as well, I can only see one of Farrell, Burns, Ford, dare I say Flood going to Oz.
Posted 08:45 19th January 2013
NHsaints says...
I think it's a really good idea but I'd have Dorian West in to fill Rowntree's shoes and probably Baxter or Booth to handle Farrel's role. I think we'll need dorian west considering the argentina pack we'll come up against, probably without the likes of Wood, Robshaw (more possibly than probably) Hartley, Cole, Launchbury, Lawes (Parling again a possibility) and potentially Vunipola, Croft or Haskell depending on how they play this six nations. I think the development of players like Kvesic, Marler, Vunipola (mako) ect will be greatly benefitted by a guy like West coming in.
Posted 18:35 18th January 2013
TVaddict says...
@APV1, melkdave, ArmchairGeneral
Agree with you guys, great choices. Booth and Cat coaching the backs would be lethal, and Baxter coaching the forwards. Like you say Dorian West could go as scrum coach or set piece coach or something like that.
Posted 17:55 18th January 2013
rugby_rockstar says...
Baxter is class. International coaching is very different to club coaching though because you don't get anywhere near the amount of time you'd be used to at club level. Its got to be a good experience for Baxter though. Next stop Saxons???
Posted 15:47 18th January 2013
ArmchairGeneral says...
Great! Good choices too. Perhaps Dorian West should be in the mix too.
Posted 12:51 18th January 2013
melkdave says...
Have to say i wouldnt be displeased to have them in the England set up this summer.While AF and GR are with the Lions,both coaches play a very good style of attacking rugby,Baxter with the forwards and booth with the backs along with his old stmping partner MC,make for a good team overall imo.
Posted 12:06 18th January 2013
APV1 says...
Some great experience for the coaches and a fresh point of view for the players. can't be a bad thing.
Posted 10:13 18th January 2013