{"id":476721,"date":"2025-10-05T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476721\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:31:20","slug":"northampton-chief-predicts-coach-radford-will-make-a-big-impact-with-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476721\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton chief predicts coach Radford will make a big impact with Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-179\/alex-bywater.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ALEX BYWATER, RUGBY WRITER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  14:08 EDT, 5 October 2025   |  Updated:  14:21 EDT, 5 October 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">New Scotland defence coach Lee Radford has been credited with changing Northampton for the better as he prepares to join <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/scotland_rugby\/index.html\" id=\"mol-791c8310-a215-11f0-b326-196db7940b6e\" class=\"class\" rel=\"noopener\">Gregor Townsend<\/a>&#8216;s international set-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Saints director of rugby Phil Dowson confirmed Daily Mail Sport&#8217;s story that Radford will work with Scotland this autumn and for the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/six_nations\/index.html\" id=\"mol-79213e00-a215-11f0-b326-196db7940b6e\" rel=\"noopener\">Six Nations<\/a> while also continuing as a Northampton employee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The former rugby league player, 46, is a replacement for Steve Tandy who left his role as Scotland assistant this summer to take charge of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2b0eb6105b293215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102724953-15164537-Lee_Radford_will_assist_Scotland_head_coach_Gregor_Townsend_duri-a-51_17596883449.jpeg\" height=\"410\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Lee Radford will assist Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend during the autumn tests\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Lee Radford will assist Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend during the autumn tests<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7beb49c2ffc9e252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102724957-15164537-Northampton_chief_Dowson_has_a_good_relationship_with_Scotland_h-a-50_17596883449.jpeg\" height=\"559\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Northampton chief Dowson has a good relationship with Scotland head coach Townsend\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Northampton chief Dowson has a good relationship with Scotland head coach Townsend<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The impact he has had had on this club and the game in general has been marked,&#8217; Dowson said of Radford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;From an emotional and technical point of view, he changed the club. Credit for him for doing that and that has been recognised at international level.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Radford&#8217;s first season with Northampton saw him help the Saints to English league title glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We want to develop players but also coaches and staff,&#8217; Dowson added of Radford&#8217;s Scotland call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;He&#8217;s looking forward to doing both of his jobs in parallel and taking his expertise up to Scotland. I&#8217;ve got a good relationship with Gregor. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be a huge bonus.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Northampton chief predicts coach Radford will make a big impact with Scotland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ALEX BYWATER, RUGBY WRITER Published: 14:08 EDT, 5 October 2025 | Updated: 14:21 EDT, 5 October 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,92,4884,4204,712,93,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-476721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-rugbyunion","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115323698724966701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476721","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=476721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}