Richie Gray, the inventor of the Rhino Collision King, brand ambassador and international skills coach for Rhino, has been appointed as specialist breakdown coach to the Springboks for a two year period which will encompass the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Galashiels based Gray will continue to clock up the miles in this period as he has done on two recent short term appointments in this role for The Rugby Championship between South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina through last summer, and the Springboks Autumn international series in Europe, which included a 20-0 victory over his native Scotland for whom he played at under 20 level.
Gray won the Technical Innovation Award at Rugby Expo in 2011 with the ground breaking Rhino Collision King machine, and has gone on to develop a whole range of breakdown products (available exclusively from Rhino) which are now attracting the attention of a vast number of leading coaches around the world as the tremendous importance of this phase of the game is increasingly appreciated.
All at Rhino send heartiest congratulations to Richie on this seminal appointment.
Richie Gray with the Technical Innovation Award, Rugby Expo 2011
Richie Gray with the Technical Innovation Award, Rugby Expo 2011