Lydiate combined playing with coaching duties for Dragons in the 2024-25 season when he made 12 appearances before hanging up his boots.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old former blind-side flanker has stayed on as part of Filo Tiatia’s staff with responsibility for the contact area.<\/p>\n
Ex-fly-half Patchell joined Dragons last summer in a part-time role and works with the kickers once a week.<\/p>\n
Head coach Tiatia does not know if Wales will request the services of his assistants for the Six Nations.<\/p>\n
“We’ve not heard anything yet. I spoke to Steve Tandy on Wednesday night about some different things, but I’ll soon find out,” said the former Ospreys forward.<\/p>\n
“The autumn was a great opportunity for them and they came back from it as better coaches from the exposure to different things.<\/p>\n
“They learnt from working with Danny [Wilson], ‘Jockey’ [Sherratt] and Tandy, plus Duncan who is a good mate of mine, over those weeks in camp.”<\/p>\n
Ospreys and Dragons meet in Bridgend on Saturday, 31 January when their Wales contingents will be missing.<\/p>\n
There is one round of URC action during the Six Nations with Ospreys hosting Ulster and Dragons entertaining Benetton on Saturday, 28 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lydiate combined playing with coaching duties for Dragons in the 2024-25 season when he made 12 appearances before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-683120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115861740260474567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683120","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=683120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}