Leicester appoint former Tigers and England lock and current Australia assistant Geoff Parling as their new head coach to succeed Michael Cheika

Leicester person appointed erstwhile Tigers and England fastener and existent Australia adjunct Geoff Parling arsenic their caput manager from adjacent season. 

The Welford Road outfit person been scrambling astir for a caller brag since they learned incumbent Michael Cheika would beryllium leaving astatine the extremity of the existent campaign. 

Paul Gustard, Leon MacDonald and Stuart Lancaster were each linked with succeeding Cheika, but it is the 41-year-old Parling who volition present instrumentality connected the role. 

Parling volition articulation Leicester successful August aft being a portion of Australia’s set-up for their hotly-anticipated bid with the British & Irish Lions Down Under. 

Parling said: ‘I was fortunate capable to person immoderate unthinkable moments successful the Leicester Tigers jersey. 

‘I americium highly arrogant to beryllium coming backmost to pb the club. 

'There are not galore opportunities that would marque myself and my household deliberation astir leaving Australia, the spot we’ve called location for the past 7 years. 

'Coming backmost to Leicester is 1 we are truly looking guardant to. I cognize the nine is looking for stableness and I volition beryllium focused connected gathering an situation with beardown foundations, wherever radical tin spot what it means to beryllium a Tiger.’ 

Leicester won the Gallagher Premiership rubric successful 2022, but past mislaid their title-winning manager Steve Borthwick to England. 

Dan McKellar lasted conscionable 1 play with Cheika parachuted successful past summertime but lone connected a short-term deal. It has meant a important play of upheaval. 

Leicester anticipation Parling’s ‘long-term’ declaration volition bring an extremity to that. As a player, Parling won 3 Premiership titles, including 2 with Leicester. 

He volition undoubtedly beryllium a fashionable assignment with Tigers fans fixed his past transportation to the club. Parling made much than 300 elder appearances successful a nonrecreational vocation that spanned 15 seasons successful England, Japan, and Australia. 

In six seasons astatine Tigers, helium made astir a period of appearances for the nine and represented some England and the Lions astatine Test level. 

Prior to joining the Wallabies, Parling was an adjunct manager with the Melbourne Rebels. 

Parling moved consecutive into coaching with the Rebels aft retiring arsenic a subordinate and successful 2020, was recruited by past Australia main Dave Rennie to articulation his coaching team. 

At the opening of 2024, helium near the Rebels aft caller Australian manager Joe Schmidt appointed him to his Wallabies coaching squad full-time. 

Leicester main enforcement serviceman Andrea Pinchen said: ‘It is superb to beryllium capable to denote the assignment of Geoff Parling arsenic our caller caput manager from adjacent play connected a semipermanent deal. 

'We, similar our supporters and everyone progressive astatine the club, privation stableness successful the relation of caput manager and took our clip successful reaching this determination to guarantee we recovered the close idiosyncratic to supply that for the club. 

'Geoff has a large cognition of Leicester and the demands of the Premiership and European rugby. He has been precise wide successful his privation to physique an situation that not lone sees players scope their potential, but delivers connected the demands of occurrence from our supporters. 

‘He is passionate astir processing his players and coaches, wide successful the individuality of his squad and committed to bringing done Leicester Tigers-made players from the pathway programme. 

'We are pleased this process has concluded, resulting successful a high-quality assignment from the hard enactment that has gone into it. We tin present bask what is going to beryllium an breathtaking decorativeness to Michael Cheika’s tenure arsenic caput coach.’ 

Cheika’s 1 and lone play with Leicester could yet extremity with the Premiership title.

Under his guidance, the Tigers are presently 2nd successful the array and are successful a good presumption to seal a play-off spot with 2 rounds of the regular play inactive to play.