Scottish snap up Barking's Codling (From Richmond and Twickenham Times)

Scottish snap up Barking's Codling

12:49pm Thursday 19th May 2011 in London Scottish By Graham Moody

National League One champions London Scottish have already started preparing for next season by bringing in former England international Alex Codling as forwards coach.

Codling, who replaces the departing Chris Lloyd, joins Scottish from his head coach position at Barking, the team Scottish pipped to promotion.

Lloyd was only a part-time forwards coach and has now moved to Waps full time as assistant academy manager.

Scottish's head coach, Simon Amor, said: "We are all absolutely delighted to have secured Alex Codling.

"He has done fantastic things with Barking over the last two seasons and anyone could see from the game we played at Goresbrook what a great unit their set of forwards were.

"A large part of that was down to Alex's coaching and I think it will be fantastic for London Scottish to have him on board.

"At the same time, we are very sorry to be losing Chris Lloyd's expertise.

"He has never been anything less than 100 per cent committed to London Scottish and the impact he has had on our forward play this season has been there for all to see.

"He has put a lot of hard work in, and laid some excellent foundations with our pack that Alex will be able to build on this season."

London Scottish CEO Tony Copsey was also pleased with the signing.

"I knew Alex from my time at Quins and have followed his career closely since then," he said.

"His playing and coaching credentials are outstanding and it is a real coup for Scottish to be able to take advantage of his expertise and passion to succeed.

"We are delighted to be able to bring him on board here at Scottish and anticipate he will fit in with our existing set-up very well."