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Leicester Tigers Women announce coaching staff changes ahead of 2025/26 season

Tom Hudson, Head Coach of Leicester Tigers, looks on during the warm up prior to the Allianz Premiership Women's Rugby match between Leicester Tigers and Harlequins at Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium on January 06, 2024 in Leicester, England. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Leicester Tigers has today confirmed that Women’s Head Coach Tom Hudson will depart the club in the summer after two seasons as part of the coaching team.

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Hudson played a role as Senior Coach during the club’s debut campaign in Premiership Women’s Rugby before being promoted to Head Coach ahead of the current season. Assistant Coach Luke Stratford will also depart at the conclusion of the current campaign.

The club currently sit second bottom of the PWR table with just two wins from 13 and three rounds of regular season rugby remaining, where the club will face reigning champions Gloucester-Hartpury, Trailfinders and Exeter Chiefs.

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The club boasts a contingent of international players including England’s Red Roses co-captain Megan Jones and hooker Amy Cokayne as well as Scotland players Jenny Maxwell, Leah Bartlett, Fran McGhie and Canada’s Claire Gallagher.

The club has stated that the recruitment process for the lead role within the women’s programme has begun for next season and beyond.

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JW 7 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

ABs are clearly #2 atm. What do you mean turned over? That was a very even game without all that went against them.

Theres nothing to show that England can do the same. England are a little like SA in that they don’t know what there best team is yet I suppose, they might be able to offer a lot better than what they did.



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JW 11 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

HH as stoic as the SB! Santas littles helpers would be doing the normal wishes of teams, we need the big man himself this year!

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JW 12 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

Even if they were they also weren’t in the losses in Londen and Wellington.

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JW 14 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

You don’t need IQ to work out that you need to give it a go. That’s his stumbling block, loyalty, pride etc, once he overcomes that we’ll see if he’s got the IQ to make it work.

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JW 16 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

I think that fire has gone from him tbh. Yes, I think he’s continuing because he’s asked to do it, but the second its said that it didn’t work and theyre going to challenge their own idea on how to play and use. Then he will quickly retire instead of provide peicemeal options for a coach.

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JW 19 minutes ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers



Be in charge, give an air of actual authority. Let everyone with a stake in this great game know that you have a plan and are executing it.

Who’s plan, Robinsons? No one new is going to have a plan, at least you would hope not given they wouldn’t even know what theyre doing yet.



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Jen 1 hour ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

HAH. I’m not sure but certainly worth some digging, just in case. 😆

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JW 1 hour ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

One of our Lomax relatives Jen? Eligible for the All Blacks? :D

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ED 1 hour ago
Leinster vs Ulster | Ulster vs Leinster | United Rugby Championship Live

12-17….waiting for Ryans card……Yellow oof

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Hellhound 1 hour ago
Top 100 Men's Rugby Players 2025 | Best Rugby Player in the World | RugbyPass

That is a scary looking team yes

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Hellhound 2 hours ago
Pat Lam blasts 'archaic' process that lost the All Blacks Tony Brown

Now you are just being a woke, jealous fool. With the way things are run in NZ, no wonder he couldn't make a success there. Now that he is out shining any other New Zealanders, including their star players, now he is bitter and resentful and all sorts of hate speeches against him. That is what the fans like you do. Those in NZ who does have enough sense not to let pride cloud their vision, is all saying the same thing. NZ needs TB. Razor was made out to be a rugby coaching God by the fans, so much so that Foz was treated like the worst piece of shitte. Especially after the Twickenham disaster right before the WC. Ad then he nearly won the WC too with 14 players. As a Saffa the way he handled the media and the pressure leading up to the WC, was just extraordinary and I have gained a lot of respect for that man. Now your so called rugby coaching God managed to lose by an even bigger margin, IN NZ. All Razor does is overplay his players and he will never get the best out of those players, and let's face it, the current crop is good enough to be the best. However, they need an coach they can believe in completely. I don't think the players have bought into his coaching gig. TB was lucky to shake the dust of his boots when he left NZ, because only when he did that, did his career go from strength to strength. He got a WC medal to his name. Might get another if the Boks can keep up the good work. New exciting young talent is set to join soon after the WC as dangerous as SFM and Kolbe. Trust me, he doesn't want the AB's job. He is very happy in SA with the Boks. We score, you lose a great coach. We know quality when we see it, we don't chuck it in the bin like NZRU likes to do. Your coaching God is hanging on by a thread to keep his job🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Jen 2 hours ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

I think he means Zac Lomax, an NRL winger, who is reported to be looking to switch codes.

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cw 2 hours ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

Simplify. Stop trying to be the smartest in the room. That’s been taken.

Play to our strengths. Simple direct ball in hand rugby at speed.



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Kashmir Pete 2 hours ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

Great article John,

Appreciate optimism you provide. Will be delighted if Wallabies simply make semis of our home WRC, and what your article brings for me, is that is very much doable.



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Hammer Head 2 hours ago
Pat Lam blasts 'archaic' process that lost the All Blacks Tony Brown

Tony Brown is better off at the Boks. And in the long run, if NZ Rugby can get their house in order enough for their to be good enough reason for him getting into the AB setup, the ABs will better for it.

The last four years and next two years buggering around in the wilderness with NZRU would be a waste of his talents and valuable career years and experience actually achieving results.



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Hellhound 2 hours ago
Pat Lam blasts 'archaic' process that lost the All Blacks Tony Brown

Tony is already revered by the SA fans. His influence is as integral as Rassie’s in the team. He may be from NZ, but his blood is green. Long may he stay with the Boks, and with Rassie signing to 2031, it's more than likely that Tony will also resign when his contract is up. What coach wouldn't? The talent he get to work with, the coaching setup that is shared and not a dictatorship, the freedom to express himself. He got everything he wants. I can't see him leaving the Bok setup soon.

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SB 3 hours ago
Six favours the All Blacks need from Santa's little helpers

Only by ranking. Don’t forget a lot of work was done prior to Razor taking over for them to be there now. It’s highly debatable that the All Blacks are the second best side in the world at the moment, particularly with the way they were turned over by England.

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JW 3 hours ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

He’s back in Super isn’t he?

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JW 3 hours ago
Six Wallabies abroad who must come into the reckoning in 2026

What’s this?

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SB 3 hours ago
High-flying Stormers suffer Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu injury blow

Perhaps he was having too much fun.

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