You don’t send him a Christmas card but ‘jet lag’ has become a close colleague of mine and International Sevens over the years. Its power is in its constellation of symptoms. You can’t take one tablet (not yet anyway) to…
The game-changing methods he used to build a world-beating team. To discipline a 16 stone rugby player, have a word with their mum When I arrived in Fiji (in 2013) after coaching the England sevens team, I spent the first…
This time last year I was bringing a couple more players in to the squad in consideration for the Olympics. I’d been having conversations for a while, in some cases for almost two years, so that I could get them…
I was in Istanbul this week. The Bosporous dividing the city but also the continents of Asia and Europe. Old with new and beautiful contrast everywhere you go. The legendary Runner Herb Elliott had a coach called Percy Cerutty that…
