SAINTS academy head coach Mark Hopley will join James Scaysbrook and Richard Whiffin in leading this season’s England U20 side.
The trio join for 18 months as part of the latest coach development programme agreement signed between the RFU and Premiership Rugby.
They will be supported by RFU pathway performance coaches Steve Bates and Jim Mallinder.
Former Bath and Exeter flanker Scaysbrook is forwards and defence coach at Toyota Shuttles in Japan, while Whiffin heads up the Gloucester academy.
The trio take over from Anthony Allen (Leicester academy) and Richard Blaze, now forwards co...