SHAUN Edwards will be 60 next weekend. It is hard to believe that he had barely turned 40 when the RFU made what felt like a half-hearted attempt to sign him as the part-time coach of England’s second team, the Saxons. It feels all the more half-hearted in retrospect.
Rob Andrew, then the RFU’s director of elite rugby, made the approach at a time when Edwards, a driving force behind Wasps’ rise as champions of England and Europe, had been offered a full-time appointment with Wales. Selection issues over the Saxons’ job led to its collapse.
And now, after 1...