Career
He is currently the Elite Coach Mentor for the French Rugby League and assistant coach for the Widnes Vikings of the Company-operative Championship. Wilkinson was previously assistant coach with Leeds Rhinos and Wigan Warriors but left the Super League team to join the Vikings in 2008. A full England Coach, British Lion assistant for the 2006 3 nations and Head Coach of the Welsh National Team 2004.
From 2008 to 2009 he worked for the French National side as an elite coach mentor with great success helping France improve at all age levels with the juniors beating Australia for the first time.
His reputation grew internationally, his Innovated work implementing sports science and coaching helped gaine he current position working for the European federation on behalf of the Rugby Football League offering international teams from Serbia, Russia, Malta, Czechoslovakian Republic and Germany advice on how to prepare their elite athletes for the 2012 world cup.