Pringle joins up amid Scotland U20 coaching shake-up
Scottish Rugby has shaken up Kenny Murray's Scotland Under-20 coaching team ahead of the 2023 U20 Six Nations following a run of 14 successive defeats.
Fergus Pringle will take over as forwards coach after moving from Super6 side Watsonians where he has been head coach since 2019.
This year he led the Myreside outfit to win both the Super6 Sprint Series and the FOSROC
Super6 Championship.
Scotland Women High Performance Manager Scott Forrest will also join the set-up as an assistant coach focusing on attack. Forrest was previously Scotland Women’s 7s head coach at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and Team GB Women’s 7s head coach at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Murray’s previous U20s assistants, Shade Munro and Rob Chrystie, will depart the set-up to focus on their fulltime roles with the professional club academies in Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh
Rugby respectively.
Pringle said: “I’d like to thank Watsonians for the Super6 Head Coaching opportunity. For the last three and a half years they’ve trusted me to develop the Super6 programme, there is a special group of players and staff at the club that will no doubt drive the club onto more success in the future, both on and off the field.
“I’m really excited to join Scotland U20 as forwards coach and to work alongside an experienced coach like Kenny and the wider management group. It’s a great opportunity to work with the best young players in the country who are coming through our systems and support their development to reach their full potential.”
Scotland U20 head coach Murray added: “In both Fergus and Scott we’ve got two quality coaches who are specialist in their areas and have huge amount of experiences in high-performance environments.
“Both coaches will be in camp this week as the playing group come together for the second of three camps prior to Christmas. Our first camp last week was a good opportunity to get the players together for the first time and set out our aims, objectives and standards for the programme."