Stuart Lancaster establishes unique forum of leading coaches from across different sports The group, which includes Mike Forde, director of football operations at Chelsea, Geoff McGrath of McLaren and Damien Comolli, Liverpool's former director of football, will meet as a forum for the swapping of ideas and practices across sport. According to The Independent it is an informal arrangement but Brailsford is keen for it to become a more formal get-together and to attract wider involvement from across Europe and the United States. "Stuart's doing well at the moment and he's an interesting guy," said Brailsford, Team Sky's principal and performance director at British Cycling. We're looking to get more people involved. We're meeting next at the end of April. You get a group of people together [and] you get a different perspective. It's good to try and [we want to] start picking off people from Europe and America. The group has already met once and will reconvene once the Six Nations, which England open against Scotland on Saturday, is over. Lancaster said: "I am really keen on the continued exchange of ideas between high-level coaches. This is the early stage but I am very hopeful something fruitful will come out of it. Brailsford has been instrumental in bringing coaches from outside cycling into the sport - Team Sky have recently recruited Shaun Stephens, Australia's Olympic triathlon coach. Forde also has rugby links, having worked with the All Blacks, as well as with formula one through time with British American Racing. McGrath oversees McLaren Applied Technologies, an offshoot of the F1 team that came up with the bike Mark Cavendish rode in the 2011 Tour de France. Comolli is an intriguing choice to be part of the set up. He was sacked as Liverpool's Director of Football last year after the club's owners reviewed its failure in the transfer market. High-profile and expensive acquisitions such as Andy Carroll were seen to have contributed to a chastening season in the Premier League.