Bath will not bring in replacement for kicking ace Callard

By Jon Newcombe

Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan has confirmed that the club won’t be hiring a new kicking coach to replace Jon Callard.
Club legend Callard worked two days a week for the beaten Premiership finalists, travelling back and forth from his home in Harrogate to the West Country, but was cut from the coaching team at the end of last season.

Finn Russell landed 21 consecutive kicks during the Six Nations having struggled for accuracy in the first half of the season at Bath, but van Graan hinted that the decision to dispense with Bath’s 1998 European Cup-winning hero was down t...

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