TOBY Booth is one of the most talented coaches around. No less a figure than Brian Ashton recognised this more than a decade ago when, in making tentative plans for a new England coaching panel he would never have the opportunity to put in place, he identified the qualified electrician as the man to send some volts through the forward pack.
Booth’s profile has not been as high as it should have been in recent seasons, but after leaving his assistant’s role at Harlequins for the top job at Ospreys just before lockdown, he might have expected this to change. Which make...