Munster lock sights on NFL fitness coach

Munster are closing in on appointing an American football strength and conditioning coach as head of athletic performance, causing surprise and disappointment within Munster and Irish rugby circles that indigenous candidates have been overlooked again.

Denis Logan, an S&C assistant with the Cleveland Browns, has been offered the position which became vacant last month following Aled Walters’ decision to join Rassie Erasmus in South Africa.

Logan would become the fifth consecutive non-Irish person to hold the position, following in the footsteps of Welsh-native Walters, Australians Adam Trypas and Bryce Kavanagh, and the late Paul Darbyshire, from Warrington, England.