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Peter Russell (born 15 January 1963 in Masterton) is a New Zealand professional rugby union coach. He is currently head coach of the NEC Green Rockets based in Abiko in Japan.

Russell's first coaching role was as coach of XXXXXX Rugby Club, where he spent XXXXXX years from 19XX to 19XX. In 19XX blah blah won the Swindon Shield..... Russell was coach of Wairarapa Bush and culminated in the Team winning the blah blah in 20XX In 2007 Russell took over the role of Head Coach of the Hawkes Bay Rugby as position he held for 4 years. During that time he developed players such as ......

From 2009 - 2011 he was Assistant Coach for the Highlanders Super Rugby Franchise focusing on; implementing Team Play book with policies, game plan, patterns of play and tactics, field training, back and team attack as well as team tactics and game plan.

From 2012 - 2014 Russel was Head Coach of the Newcastle Falcons in the UK. During his tenurethe Falcons were English Rugby Union Championship Winners and were promoted to "AVIVA" Premiership, LV = Cup and European "AMLIN" Cup. His key focus was to developing an open and expansive game.

Throughout his professional coaching career Russell has been a Lead Coach and Facilitator at the International Rugby Academy New Zealand (IRANZ) Palmerston North. This role is to facilitate and implement IRANZ rugby coaching programmes for high performance players and coaches to elite groups of coaches and players.