Smith has been a convincing success since taking up at Glasgow in 2022.
He led the membership to the European Problem Cup ultimate in his first season, delivered a unprecedented United Rugby Championship title success in his second, and whereas accidents took a toll final season, Warriors nonetheless reached the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup and the final 4 within the URC.
Smith has been linked with different jobs all through the season – most notably the vacant Wales head coach place – and has completed little to quell speak that he’s in search of a recent problem.
“We actually like all three coaches we’ve got received on the lads’s facet and we would like to retain them,” Williamson mentioned.
“So these conversations are ones I’m having now and can proceed over the approaching weeks. However in the case of Franco particularly, he’s a implausible coach. He has completed a completely unimaginable job and I actually, actually hope that he will likely be staying.
“I’m really delighted that he’s getting approached and that persons are speaking about him as being a coach for different folks as a result of we would like the very best coaches in Scotland and it might be frankly fairly disappointing if nobody was speaking about somebody as top quality as him.
“I feel that we provide a consistency and a readability of plan that he will likely be good in and I’m actually hopeful that he will likely be with us.”
Smith is considered by many as an apparent alternative for Townsend, however Williamson insists such succession planning has not been mentioned.
“I do not assume that we essentially needs to be taking a look at our teaching group and saying that we’re creating the bench when you like to interchange gaps once they come up at any stage,” he mentioned.
“I feel that we simply wish to be sure in that second that we recruit the one who could be very greatest for that function.
“Once we are desirous about how we create a pathway that’s going to lead to us being extremely aggressive in 2031 and 2035, or 2029 and 2033 for the women, we completely should nail that when it comes to the continuity round our teaching as a result of that’s what’s going to breed confidence in our gamers.
“Having Franco right here is a vital a part of that. However equally, I feel Sean Everett has completed a superb job on the again finish of the season. I feel he’s very happy with the way in which that group grew and I’m excited to see how he goes with a really younger participant group subsequent yr.”
