Struggling Sale offer Bryan Redpath a new role SALE Sharks chief executive Steve Diamond has confirmed he will be in charge of the team for the remainder of the season following former Scotland international Bryan Redpath's removal from the position of director of rugby. Responding to reports on Monday night that Redpath had been axed, Sale - bottom of the Aviva Premiership having lost all of their opening seven league fixtures - released a statement which stressed the Scot had not been dismissed by the club. At the very least, though, his job there will be redefined, with Diamond yesterday afternoon clarifying that Redpath was considering an offer to take up a new coaching position at Sale. Meanwhile, Diamond himself has taken over team affairs. He says he will be in charge for the rest of the campaign, aided by John Mitchell, the former New Zealand coach who has been acting as a consultant at Sale, and, Diamond hopes, Redpath. Diamond said: "Effectively, now I will be in charge until the end of the season. John Mitchell will be consulting during that period and, hopefully, Bryan Redpath. The situation is that, after a lot of poor results, we have asked Bryan just to take a little bit of time out, a couple of days off to reconsider what we are doing and how we restructure our rugby department. We want him to be involved moving forward. He is contracted for a long time after making a big move from Gloucester and we want him to be involved. We just need to get the balance of that right, and it clearly isn't right [judging] by our results, so we just want to change it around a little bit to make sure we get the most out of our resources in the coaching - myself, Bryan and John Mitchell. It had been thought that Redpath was being offered the post of backs coach, although Diamond was keen to emphasise that the 41-year-old would have a broader remit. "It is a bit more than that - it is to be involved in the integrity of the coaching, not just a backs position," Diamond said. It is working within the coaching group and facilitating attack, defence, all sorts of stuff. Maybe not forwards but, generally, all other aspects of the game. Asked if he felt Redpath would be happy to work in the new structure, Diamond said: "The conversations we have had have been very positive and we would like to think that, yes. He has a bit of time to consider it and he will be coming back to us either today or tomorrow with that decision. While Redpath's future remains uncertain, there is no doubt that it will be Diamond and Mitchell overseeing Friday's home clash with 11th-placed London Irish, who on 10 points, are eight points better off than Sale. "I'm in charge for the London Irish game," Diamond said. John Mitchell and I have prepared the team this week. We have finished training now, we have a team run before the game and then we are in to it. Redpath took over at Sale in June, signing a four-year deal, after leaving Gloucester. The appointment of the former scrum-half, who played for the Greater Manchester club between 2000 and 2005 and was capped 60 times by Scotland, was part of a radical overhaul of Sale in the summer as they left Stockport for the City of Salford Stadium.