Wheeler: Kidney would have to be a 'serious candidate'

DECLAN Kidney is now considered "a primary target" to replace Dean Richards as director of rugby at Leicester.

Tigers chief executive Peter Wheeler has been monitoring Kidney's changed circumstances with the IRFU and said yesterday: "We are looking for a top quality coach and anyone involved with a national side anywhere in the world would have to be a serious candidate."

Wheeler declined to identify specific targets on the basis that the club is involved in initial discussions with a number of people.