By NEALE HARVEY

Advice: Nick Kennedy

FORMER London Irish academy No.9 Connor Murphy can hardly believe his luck as he prepares to shoot for the stars in his second season as a rugby pioneer in Houston.
It is little over a year since Murphy, whose early promise at Irish was stymied by injury, was considering his options outside the game. Now he is part of the USA’s burgeoning Major League Rugby scene as a leading member of the Houston Sabre Cats franchise.
Rugby is rocketing in space age Texas, as it is in other parts of the States and now Canada, with new start-up MLR franchises in...