By ROB COLE
NEWS EXTRA
LYNN Howells won’t be reconsidering his position as Romanian coach even after the Oaks squeezed into the World Cup finals. Howells and his coaching staff stepped down after nearly seven years in charge, and a 70 per cent% success record, in the wake of his side’s 62-12 win over Belgium with one round of the Rugby Europe Championship campaign to go.
A first defeat to Spain in his reign, 22-10, meant the Spaniards merely had to beat the Belgians to take the automatic World Cup qualifying place. It seemed a formality and would have left Romania to scrap it ou...