RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

IF at first you don’t succeed... roll up your sleeves and get stuck in. Four years ago almost to the day Spanish rugby was in turmoil but this week they have been celebrating long and hard their first World Cup qualification since 1999.
After a promising start in the RWC2019 qualification process it all went badly pear shaped. First, they lost what should have been the deciding game against lowly Belgium in slightly dubious circumstances and then they lost out on a repechage place when two p...