RUGBY MATTERS

GO west young man.
The phrase, attributed to American newspaper editor Horace Greeley, became a byword for the expansion of the United States in the 19th century, but I can’t help feeling it is becoming a mantra within French rugby.
The big heartlands are being challenged like never before. There was a time when the vast majority of top class French rugby was played along the sun-kissed A64-A63 corridor connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
Then with professionalism the two Paris clubs – Stade and Racing – belatedly got in gear and the like...