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Sean Lynn said he had the impression of “going home” after being unveiled by the Welsh Rugby Union as a new female head coach.
The native of Swansea, who guided Gloucester-Hartpury to consecutive national titles, signed a three-year contract with the WRU and will take care of the team for the next six nations and the Rugby World Cup.
Lynn will combine his duties at Gloucester-Hartpury with Wales for the rest of the Première female rugby season while he is trying to become the first coach to win a hat-trick of national titles in the female elite.
He was the most remarkable candidate for this position after Ioan Cunningham left his post following mismanagement by the Welsh Rugby Union of contractual negotiations with his women’s team last year.
Lynn is already working with many Welsh players in Gloucester-Hartpury, including the captain of the country Hannah Jones, but she will take one of the most difficult tasks in women’s football while the WRU, struck by the crisis, begins to restore its image During a pivotal year. For female rugby.
“I am Welsh. I come home and I am very excited to be the head coach of Wales, “said Lynn in front of a room filled with journalists at the Principality Stadium.” I am so excited to lead a special group of players and of staff.
“I know a lot of these people, I have been playing in women’s football for five years and I really enjoyed it, and I want to have a really important impact on the international scene.”
As a player, Lynn was half a melee of a sniper who represented the under -18s of Wales alongside Gavin Henson and Jonathan Thomas, before going through the team of under 21 of Gloucester And students from Wales.
He then embarked on an extremely successful coach career at the Hartpury College, guiding the Hartpury University men’s team to a trio of victories at Bucs Super Rugby Championship in Twickenham between 2017 and 2019, before being Appointed manager of women’s rugby at Hartpury.
The Welshmen finished last in last year, but, as revealed Telegraph Sport Last November, the team was ravaged by a scandal of off -field contracts, which culminated when Nigel Walker, the former managing director of the WRU, threatened to give up the place of the World Cup the World Cup of this year’s rugby if the team did not sign new contracts.
Walker resigned last month, citing the performances of Wales Women’s and Male teams as the main reason for his departure, this last team finishing 2024 without victory under Warren Gatland.
When asked how he tried to galvanize the team and restore relations between the players and the union, Lynn replied: “My goal is to create the right environment. This is the room on which we all have to be aligned.
Wales will open its campaign of the six female nations against Scotland in Edinburgh on March 22, before facing England in the Principality the following week.
Lynn is the perfect man for this work-but can he keep his promises?
Dressed in a light gray suit and a red tie, Sean Lynn displayed a professional silhouette in front of the media in a windowless room of the Principality. We normally see it bearing a hooded sweatshirt and shorts – in all times – on the touch lines of the Premierhip Women’s Rugby. But there was a serious aura with his home when he spoke of his enthusiasm at the idea of winning his first role as an international coach.
“Listen is a real and strong rugby nation. I grew up in the Principality and I really want to have an impact on the international scene, “he said.
Lynn is extremely popular among the players of Gloucester-Hartpury, where he already oversees a dozen Welsh players, although he stressed that there had been “no conversation” with the Welsh contingent of the club before taking this role. He is a sociable person, has a medico-legal understanding of women’s football and has a history in the development of young talents as well as a brilliant CV of coach.
His first role as an international coach will not, however, be without challenges, and the logistics of the operation of the sharing of post with Gloucester-Hartpury in practice is fascinating. Never beforehand a national trainer of women’s football had juggled between the responsibilities of a club and an international role, and there will be many rotating plates.
Lynn has only a few weeks to prepare the team for their six-nations campaign while supervising the rest of the Gloucester-Hartpury season. The Cherry and the Whites currently occupy the head of the PWR and if they reach the PWR final on March 16, Lynn will have no time in advance before the six nations, which begin the following week. It will be a huge test of his references.
“Most unions will be involved in the PWR and will be in the same boat,” he said, approaching this issue. “The most important thing for me is to make sure to establish links with players when I am free with Gloucester-Hartpury. I will look a lot to look at rugby.
Lynn did not know if he would make sure Rhys Oakley and Dan Murphy respectively-his defense and melee coaches in Gloucester-Hartpury-are part of his team behind the scenes of Wales. This is one of the many important decisions that he will have to make given that he has only eight months to constitute a team capable of embarking on an in -depth race during the World Cup this year in England . But if someone can succeed, it is Lynn – an original Welshman whose passion for women’s football knows no limits.
