PAUL REES talks to George Skivington about the challenge to transform Gloucester

When George Skivington imagined how his first meeting as a head coach with his players and staff would go, telling them not to socialise or see each other when they returned home from the club each day did not trouble his thoughts. But that was how it had to be when he arrived at Kingsholm last July at a time of lockdown and restrictions.
Skivington, who at the time of his appointment was the Premiership’s youngest head coach at the age of 37, born a month after Wasps’ Lee Blackett, came armed with plans on how...