ON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER

Racing 92 have made England and Harlequins fly-half Marcus Smith an offer of around €500,000 (£425,000) gross to move to the French capital when his contract runs out next summer.
The Paris-based big guns, who lost Friday night’s Top 14 semi-final play-off against Toulouse, have also been linked with a bid to buy Smith out of the last year of his deal at the Twickenham Stoop, but we understand that the offer they have made is for 12 months’ time.

Offer: Marcus Smith

Smith, who visited Racing’s state-of-the-art training facility Plessis Robinson last month,...