Cracknell battling to avoid the scrapheap

By NEALE HARVEY
FORMER Fiji 7s coach Chris Cracknell fears he may have to quit rugby after failing to find work following last August’s stunning Olympics triumph.
In tandem with Ben Ryan, ex-England 7s star Cracknell steered the flying Fijians to their proudest rugby moment in Rio. But despite a CV that includes working with England’s 15-a-side women, he finds himself on rugby’s coaching scrapheap.
Cracknell, 32, told The Rugby Paper: “Fiji was a hell of an experience and I thought, maybe naively, that when I came back in August there’d be more opportunities.
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