Terry McMaster is expected to be confirmed as new City of Derry Head Coach after Mark Nicholl was removed from the Judges Road post on Saturday last following a seven and a half year stint with the club.<\/p>\n
McMaster returns alongside former player, Jason Mitchell, who will be the new forwards coach, with Neil Beddow retained as backs coach in the new set-up.<\/p>\n
It is understood Nicholl – who was brought on board by former coach, Bevan Lynch – held a meeting last week to look at potential player recruitment for next season before being informed of the decision at the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing but that\u2019s the way things work in this game,\u201d said the Ballykelly man. \u201cIt\u2019s not what I wanted, but I have to accept these decisions. I didn\u2019t really receive any specific reason, I was simply told this is the decision the club has made and I have to respect that……… see the full story on > http:\/\/www.derryjournal.com\/sport\/other-sports\/city-of-derry-mcmaster-new-derry-head-coach-as-nicholl-sacked-1-6516723<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Terry McMaster is expected to be confirmed as new City of Derry Head Coach after Mark Nicholl was removed from the Judges Road post on Saturday last following a seven and a half year stint with the club. McMaster returns alongside former player, Jason Mitchell, who will be the new forwards coach, with Neil Beddow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5774,4592,5775,6077,11415],"class_list":["post-79827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-derry","tag-city","tag-coach","tag-derry","tag-head","tag-mcmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}