Chiefs assistant Randle leaving for Ireland
- Apr 16
- 2 min read
Long-serving Chiefs Assistant Coach Roger Randle will leave the club after the Super Rugby Pacific season to coach in Ireland.
Randle, who has been a coach at the club since 2018, will join formerChiefs Head Coach Clayton McMillan at Munster in July.
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Randle, 51, played two games for the All Blacks in 2001 and won sevens gold at the 1998 and 2002 Commonwealth Games. He also played 59 Super Rugby games for the Gallagher Chiefs between 1998 and 2003.
He has an extensive coaching resumé having coached at the club, age grade and sevens levels, and Waikato in the NPC. Randle has also been a Māori All Blacks coach since 2018 and helped coach the NZ Barbarians against the British and Irish Lions in 2017.
But it is the Gallagher Chiefs who have been central to his rugby life, first as a player and then a coach, and he said it will be tough to leave.
"I have loved my time at the Chiefs," Randle said. "It is a club my whānau and I hold very close to our hearts. But this is an exciting opportunity and one I am looking forward to.
“Coaching internationally will be a new and exciting challenge for me, and it will be good to reunite with Clayton. But I still have a job to do at the Chiefs, and that is helping this group win another Super Rugby title."
Gallagher Chiefs Head Coach Jono Gibbes said Randle had contributed enormously to the Chiefs, on and off the field, as a player and as a coach.
“Through his innovative and creative lens on the game, and his unparallelled work ethic, he is constantly chasing improvements in our attacking game,” Gibbes said.
“Roger isn't just part of the fabric here at the Chiefs; he's been instrumental in weaving it. He'll leave a massive hole, and we wish him and his whānau all the best in Ireland.”
