Taylor joins Scarlets management

Scarlets can today confirm that former Scarlets and Wales centre Mark Taylor has joined the region’s management team.

The former Wales captain stepped down from his role with Wales Under 20s earlier this year and has joined the Scarlets as team manager ahead of the 2016-17 campaign as his fellow former teammate Garan Evans takes up an exciting new role within the region.

In addition to winning 52 caps Taylor also successfully captained Wales on four occasions and has been a Wales international pathway team manager since hanging up his playing boots in 2008 bringing with him a wealth of experience and knowledge within the role.

Evans took the reigns as Scarlets team manager in 2008 having retired from professional rugby after a successful career that spanned 15 seasons with Llanelli RFC and Scarlets. He made 343 appearances, scoring 125 tries making him the ninth top try scorer in the history of the club. Evans won four international caps, his first on tour to South Africa in 1998.

In line with the measures announced earlier this week to modernise Llanelli RFC’s legal structure, as a club in line with WRU and good legal practice, Evans will take up a newly created role as Llanelli Commercial Manager.

Scarkets General Manager of Rugby Jon Daniels paid tribute to Evans’ contribution to the club, as a player and team manager, over the last 23 years saying; “Garan epitomises what it means to be a Scarlet. He gave everything as a player on the field, for both Llanelli RFC and for the Scarlets after the game went regional, and he has worked tirelessly over the last eight years as team manager.

“The new role of Llanelli RFC Commercial Manager is an exciting new challenge and one that Garan will tackle with the same enthusiasm and energy as he has every challenge over the last two decades, both on and off the field.”

Daniels went on to comment on Taylor’s addition to the team management saying; “Mark is an experienced team manager in his own right having worked within that role for the Welsh Rugby Union for nearly a decade.

“Mark has represented the Scarlets, lives in the region and has brought up his young family in the area and fully understands the ethos and values that the Scarlets represent.”