{"id":397730,"date":"2026-03-22T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/397730\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:10:12","slug":"bernard-jackman-investment-in-coaches-is-having-positive-impact-on-provinces-and-on-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/397730\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Jackman: Investment in coaches is having positive impact on provinces and on Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster and Sean Jansen after their side's victory over Ulster on Friday night. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/22b647fa-79d4-44d8-b971-8ea41498dfc0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster and Sean Jansen after their side&#8217;s victory over Ulster on Friday night. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The power of the coach is sometimes overrated. Studies from the UK in football on the difference a new manager can make to a team\u2019s performance reveal it to be at most 10 per cent over time, although there can be a more significant bounce in results in the short term when a manager is changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, when the margins between teams are as tight as they are in the URC, Champions Cup or at international level, that 10 per cent can be the difference between a positive season or one filled with regret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster and Sean Jansen after their side&#8217;s victory over Ulster on Friday night. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,17,34991,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-397730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116271345492696689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}