After a distinguished playing and coaching career with Wasps, Leicester, London Irish and England Saxons, former lock forward George Skivington has taken on the challenge of transforming Gloucester from plucky losers into winners. Kingsholm’s new head coach tells NEALE HARVEY how he’s going about it.

Describe your first few weeks and thoughts on becoming Gloucester head coach?

It’s been good, but very busy! There’s a lot of new faces and names to get to know, as well as how the club works – the strengths that are already in place and the bits that need tweaking and moving in a slightly ...