Female coaches make huge difference - Scarratt

Female coaches make huge difference - ScarrattTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedMedia caption, 'We need to do a better job' getting women into coachingByAlastair Telfer, BBC Sport journalist and Sara Orchard, Rugby union commentatorPublished6 minutes agoWhen Emily Scarratt returns to Allianz Stadium on Saturday, it will be in a different role to the one she played during England's World Cup win in September.The Red Roses' record points-scorer, who had been player-coaching at Loughborough Lightning, hung up her boots after England's final victory over Canada.Injury and high-level competition in the centres resulted in arguably the greatest England women's player being deployed on the ground as the team's water carrier.The role had her connected with the coaching team via an earpiece to bring on valuable information to the team.Now she returns for the 2026 Women's Six Nations as England's new lead attack and backs coach, replacing former assistant coach Lou Meadows.With Scarratt's former team-mate Sarah Hunter the side's defence coach, England are developing two of the game's biggest talents as the Red Roses' wait for a female head coach continues.When asked about the value of having women coaching women's teams, Scarratt told BBC Sport: "It is huge."I have spent so much of my career being coached by men, and brilliant men, and men who have had so much experience and can bring so much from their own experiences into our world."Having females around the environment makes a big difference. Just being able to check in with players differently, have different sorts of conversations, be comfortably able to go into the changing room and grab somebody you know, just simple logistics like that."I found it in terms of the girls feeling like they can say stuff to me that perhaps they wouldn't feel comfortable saying to either...