Harlequins boss Danny Wilson has embraced the change of roles and becoming Matt Sherratt\u2019s assistant as Wales bid to end their record losing streak in Japan.<\/p>\n
Wilson has joined the Wales coaching staff for the upcoming two-Test tour of Japan, with Cardiff boss Sherratt resuming interim head coach duty.<\/p>\n
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Sherratt, who filled in for the final three Six Nations games after Warren Gatland left in February, worked as Wilson\u2019s assistant at the Cardiff Blues in 2016-17 but those roles have now been reversed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI left Wales and my role at Cardiff in 2018 and I have some really happy memories,\u201d said Wilson, who was Dragons forwards coach between 2010 and 2012 and also had a spell in charge of the national Under-20s side.<\/p>\n
\u201cI first worked with Matt at Bristol and then having seen how good he was, I was desperate to bring him to Cardiff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a pretty good time together and then went our separate ways into different projects after a pleasing end by winning a bit of silverware with Cardiff (2018 European Challenge Cup).<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe work well together and dovetail a fair amount, but we are responsible for different areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very respectful of who is in the head coaching role. He was very supportive of me in our period together at Cardiff, and likewise me now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson left Wales to forge his career in Scotland, working as forwards coach for the national team between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n
He then spent two years at Glasgow Warriors before moving on to Harlequins in 2023, a role he will resume \u201cwhen I get off a flight from Japan\u201d.<\/p>\n
Wilson knows plenty about the challenges facing Wales in Japan after being part of the Scotland set-up at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n
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Scotland were eliminated at the group stage after suffering a shock 28-21 defeat to Japan in Yokohama.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are big challenges around the humidity and cultural differences,\u201d said Wilson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did a huge amount of work on the humidity side of things and that is already being done.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreasy balls is an obvious challenge. I remember going out there and in the first few training sessions there were a lot of balls on the floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a very passionate and hungry group of players here. In the short time I\u2019ve got to know them I\u2019ve found them to be a very responsive group to coaching.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wales suffered a 17th straight Test defeat \u2013 a record for a Tier One nation \u2013 when hammered 68-14 at home by England in March.<\/p>\n
They play Eddie Jones\u2019 Japan in Kitakyushu on July 5, with the second Test in Kobe a week later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlequins boss Danny Wilson has embraced the change of roles and becoming Matt Sherratt\u2019s assistant as Wales bid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,78665,23595,4884,2122,78666,23593,78667,16,15,1764,23591],"class_list":{"0":"post-192600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cardiff-blues","10":"tag-danny-wilson","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-losing-streak","14":"tag-matt-sherratt","15":"tag-sherratt","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales","19":"tag-warren-gatland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700643388858190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}