Melrose coach John Dalziel (centre) is now also the head coach of Scotland under-20s. Picture: SNS
THE Scottish Rugby Union has revamped its age-grade coaching set-up, promoting John Dalziel from assistant coach of the national under-20s to head coach. Former Scotland centre Sean Lineen, who was head coach for the past three years, is still head of international age-grades, and has specific responsibility for overseeing the coaching of the under-16s. Dalziel’s assistants will be Ben Fisher and Ian Monaghan.
Fourteen new coaches have been appointed in all, among them two other ex-Scotland players, Andy Henderson and Ben Cairns, both of whom will assist under-18s head coach Ally Donaldson. Don Caskie takes charge of the under-19s and is assisted by Calum Forrester.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here