• Australian shows the door after 40-6 thrashing at Exeter
• Geordan Murphy to help fill coaching gap
The season is barely one game old but Leicester have already seen enough to persuade them to part company with their head coach, Matt O’Connor. The Australian has left Welford Road with immediate effect in the wake of the Tigers’ 40-6 opening weekend mauling at Exeter.
Even by the increasingly brutal standards of professional sport the sacking qualifies among the more spectacular knee-jerk reactions of modern times, with the former Irish international Geordan Murphy now in temporary charge. O’Connor, however, had already started this season under pressure following his team’s failure to finish in the Premiership’s top four for the first time since 2004.
Written by Robert Kitson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/03/matt-oconnor-sacked under the title “Leicester sack head coach Matt O’Connor after first match of the season”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
