Scottish Rugby's new performance director David Nucifora gives his first press conference
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00:00Firstly, thanks for coming along. I suppose my tenure here is what I signed up for for two years, to take on a position as Performance Director.
00:19I really didn't have much intention when I finished in Ireland to take something else on.
00:25But I had multiple conversations with John McGuigan, the Chairman, and I felt that we had similar thoughts about the game and where it could go and what could be done.
00:40I was convinced that there was opportunity here to do something, because obviously I've had a reasonable amount to do with rugby in this part of the world, so I had a reasonable understanding of Scottish rugby and where it was at.
00:58But I suppose the temptation of being able to help reshape something that I believe has a very high ceiling was attractive to me, and hence I took up the opportunity to get involved.
01:14The last five weeks I've been here on the ground, and I've been really encouraged by what I've seen. I think there is lots of potential, and I think that there's a number of things that can be attacked very early on to try and make some reasonably quick improvements, some efficiencies.
01:41I think that the obvious thing for me coming here is what I saw was the fact that the advantages here are the size of the place. I suppose some people would look at it and say that Scotland's way too small to be able to compete on the world stage, but I've got to say that was the same thing that Ireland said to me at the start as well.
02:06I just saw that as a massive opportunity to be able to build something that was totally aligned and efficient by functions, and I think that that's a huge opportunity here to be able to get things working cohesively, and it's in that space, I suppose, and the work that I've done to date that I can see that there's a lot of room for us to be able to make that happen.
02:31I'm excited about it. It's going to be a good challenge. I don't see it as being something that's going to materialise overnight. I certainly don't have a magic wand, but I do see that the structures and the raw material is here to work with, so I think that I look at it in a very positive light that we can achieve some really good things.