Assistant coach Simon Leader gives the inside track on the rise of rugby in Belgium

Our season finished with a big win over Portugal in the play-off to maintain our position in next season’s Rugby Europe Championship but, it is fair to say, it has not been an easy year.
Beginning my third season as part of the Belgium coaching team, I and the other coaches had been excited by the prospect of facing some big names in the world game. We were confident we had found our level in this tournament immediately below the Six Nations and would be able to impose ourselves in the group.
Things, h...