SO Yorkshire Carnegie player-coach Joe Ford has signed off to concentrate on business activities away from rugby, a sad loss and a clear indication of the game outside the Premiership.
To see a young coach have to give up on a game he has committed so much to is a travesty.
He never achieved the heights of his brother, George, but he was a good Championship player.
It is people like him, your grafting club players that are the coaches of the future, more so than the stellar names of the Premiership.
There is a need to support all strands of English Rugby which includes the trainng and devel...