The T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union (TTR­FU) has ap­point­ed Jer­ry Legall as coach of the Se­nior Men's 15s Rug­by team ahead of an ex­pect­ed busy year for the sport, de­spite the coro­na (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic.

Legall's ap­point­ment is part of a num­ber of ap­point­ments made re­cent­ly fol­low­ing an an­nounce­ment by Rug­by Amer­i­c­as North (RAN) that the Rug­by World Cup qual­i­fiers would take place in April/May this year for both Men and Women.

The ap­point­ments are to be made pub­lic of­fi­cial­ly on Fri­day, a close rug­by source told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Tues­day.

Legall, who was an as­sis­tant to Fe­li­cian Guer­ra to the men's team in 2019, will be as­sist­ed by Johnathan O'Con­nor, while Cur­tis Nero will be the man­ag­er and Ken­wyn Davis will be the as­sis­tant man­ag­er. Nero, a long-serv­ing mem­ber of T&T rug­by, will al­so part­ner with Davis to be the man­ag­er and as­sis­tant man­ag­er for all of the coun­try's rug­by teams, in­clu­sive of the Un­der-19 Men's 15s, the Men's 7s and Women's 7s team.

Micky Brown­er will al­so be the kick­ing coach for all the coun­try's teams.

Oth­er ap­point­ments be­ing re­vealed were the nam­ing of Jerome Poon Tip as the coach of the Un­der-19 Men's team, which came along­side his as­sis­tant Don Su­cre, while Quintin Ly­der-Bap­tiste is the man­ag­er and Cle­san Green, the as­sis­tant man­ag­er.

Carl­ton Fe­lix, a for­mer na­tion­al coach al­so earned a re­call as coach of the coun­try's 7s women's rug­by team, with 7s men's coach be­ing Fe­li­cian Guer­ra.

Ju­liana Strak­er, con­sid­ered prob­a­bly the best woman's play­er to grace a rug­by field in the Caribbean, has earned the ap­point­ment of an as­sis­tant to Fe­lix, while Je­nilee Li­ma­da and Kerchelle Hink­son, have been ap­point­ed man­ag­er and as­sis­tant man­ag­er of the women's 7s team re­spec­tive­ly.

Mean­while, Guer­ra, un­like any of the oth­er coach­es, will have the as­sis­tance of two coach­es in Kel­son Fi­garo and Richard Sta­glon, who is a for­mer Guyanese in­ter­na­tion­al play­er who now re­sides in T&T.

Ear­li­er this week rug­by pres­i­dent Col­in Pe­ters said lo­cal play­ers have not done any­thing rug­by-re­lat­ed due to the coro­n­avirus which had brought many sports to an abrupt stop last year.

How­ev­er, he not­ed that be­cause of the closed TT bor­ders, the coun­try's men's and women's team could miss out on World Cup berths.

The ap­point­ments of the coach­es mean that once the gov­ern­ment gives the go-ahead for con­tact sports to take place of­fi­cial­ly, the teams will re­sume prepa­ra­tion for tour­na­ments ahead.