Big oak: Toulon’s Mathieu Bastareaud
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The opportunity to try something new appealed to me when Dallas Griffins owner Phil Camm asked me to head up the club’s rugby operations ahead of the launch of the USA’s Major League Rugby in the spring of 2018.
People may be a bit surprised by my next career choice and I admit it is a bit of a risk, but taking risks is a strength and weakness of mine, and I drive my wife Sally-Anne crazy because of that. When we were making this decision together, we thought back to the time I switched codes. We had a mortgage ...