{"id":18020,"date":"2025-08-05T17:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dan-cole-former-leicester-tigers-prop-joins-premiership-clubs-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:24:40","slug":"dan-cole-former-leicester-tigers-prop-joins-premiership-clubs-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dan-cole-former-leicester-tigers-prop-joins-premiership-clubs-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Cole: Former Leicester Tigers prop joins Premiership club’s staff"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Former Leicester Tigers and England prop Dan Cole has taken up a backroom role with the club following his retirement as a player.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 38-year-old, whose final game for Tigers was their Premiership Final loss against Bath in June, becomes the new recruitment and retention manager.<\/p>\n

It will see the four-time Premiership winner play on a key role in shaping Tigers squads of the future and will see him work closely alongside new head coach – and former Tigers team-mate – Geoff Parling.<\/p>\n

Tigers chief executive Andrea Pinchen says she has “no doubt” that Cole will be a “great fit” with his new job, which will see him sit on a newly created recruitment and retention committee.<\/p>\n

“He is a Leicester Tigers man through and through; he wants to see this club be successful and, pleasingly, wants to contribute and be a part of this exciting new chapter,” Pinchin told the club website., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Former Leicester Tigers and England prop Dan Cole has taken up a backroom role with the club following his retirement as a player. The 38-year-old, whose final game for Tigers was their Premiership Final loss against Bath in June, becomes the new recruitment and retention manager. It will see the four-time Premiership winner play on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18022,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020\/revisions\/18022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}