Cockerill out to beef up Georgia

Rugby Europe Championship
By JON NEWCOMBE

Richard Cockerill starts his reign as Georgia head coach in a remote part of Germany today vowing to put the bite back into the Lelos pack.
In their attempts to develop more of a 15-man game, Georgia lost some of their traditional edge up front at the World Cup.
While delighted to be working with “worldclass” talents such as young full-back Davit Niniashvili, Cockerill sees one of his main tasks as restoring Georgia’s reputation as one of the most feared units around.
“In the next four years we want to try and dominate the set-piece again,” said...

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