By Brendan Gallagher - Rugby Matters
Mention recently of the late Claude Saurel and his eclectic coaching career brought back memories of the African Leopards XV, a brief experiment that was suddenly and prematurely discarded in the noughties by the IRB whose record in Africa, both then and now as World Rugby, is frankly lamentable.
What should be a growth area often resembles a rugby wasteland or desert.
Thirty years ago Ivory Coast qualified for the Rugby World Cup but weren’t even granted a Test in the three years that followed and predictably soon died a death; Morocco and Tunisia were ha...