JAMES HARRINGTON

LESS than two weeks before the new ProD2 season kicks off, overseas buyers have officially submitted a bid to buy Beziers – four years after the club was taken under local council control, according to reports in France.
The Rugbyrama website said that a foreign investment group, led by former New Zealand international Andrew Mehrtens, had tabled a formal bid for the club, and sent details of the offer, including the fiscal framework holding it together, to the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and its financial watchdog A2R.
Mehrtens has long-standing links with Bezier...