{"id":156095,"date":"2025-06-04T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156095\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:11:14","slug":"ex-england-hooker-tommy-taylors-coaching-career-moves-up-a-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156095\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-England hooker Tommy Taylor’s coaching career moves up a step"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former England<\/a> hooker Tommy Taylor<\/a> has been appointed as forwards coach at National 1 side Sedgley Park, after impressing as new England coach Byron McGuigan\u2019s sidekick at Lancashire outfit Rossendale.<\/p>\n

The former Sale Sharks<\/a> team-mates led Rossendale to promotion to National 2 North in 2024\/25, but Taylor will be working a level up at nearby Sedgley Park next season, alongside his new full-time job in leadership and performance.<\/p>\n

Taylor, who was capped against Wales<\/a> in 2016, confirmed last month that he\u2019d been forced to retire from playing due to injury, having not featured at all this season.<\/p>\n

He played around 250 games of pro rugby during two spells at Sale, either side of five seasons at Wasps, but now his focus is on his new day job, coaching and recovering from the nerve damage that led to him hanging up his boots.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery player wants to retire on their own terms, but sadly, that hasn\u2019t been the case for me,\u201d he said in a column in The Rugby Paper.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy back went into spasm during training, and then over the next few days, I started to get a lot of nerve pain and my leg just switched off. I lost a lot of strength down the back of my left leg, in my calf and hamstring, and it still hasn\u2019t come back.\u00a0 I\u2019m alright driving, but it\u2019s left me with a bit of a limp and I definitely can\u2019t run.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a back operation to remove the disc that caused the nerve damage and now it\u2019s just waiting for the movement to come back. I\u2019d like to play football with my kids, I\u2019ve got a three-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy, and I am hopping around after them at the moment, which isn\u2019t ideal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs much as injuries stalled my career at times, and ultimately finished it off, they gave me a great opportunity to get out of the bubble of professional sport and explore how I can develop outside of the game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did a Leadership & Management degree in my early 20s and have always found leadership coaching fascinating. This has led me to Leading-Edge-Performance, who have been brilliant to work with over the past few years, and now to work for them full-time.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Taylor\u2019s coaching is trending upwards, McGuigan, the defence coach at Sale, has reached the top, having been selected to be part of Steve Borthwick\u2019s backroom team for this summer\u2019s England tour to Argentina<\/a> and the USA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t imagine not being involved in rugby to some degree, and this year I\u2019ve been coaching Rossendale with Byron McGuigan. I\u2019ve taught him everything! He needed my help getting promotion after three years of trying, which we got, and now he is an England coach! I\u2019d say he owes me a pint.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext season I\u2019m going to be at Sedgley Park, as part of Scott Barrow\u2019s coaching team, which I\u2019m really looking forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n

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