Ford: Fresh faces taking club to the next level

By BEN CONEYBEARE

Bury boss: Jacob Ford JACOB Ford came and the records fell at Bury St Edmunds. Ford finished sixth in his first season in charge before securing the club’s highest-ever place in the National Leagues last season with a fifth-place finish in National 2 East. Now they are looking to their 25-year-old director of rugby to engineer something even more special. But Ford refuses to let a narrow focus on results get in the way of crafting a style that Bury can say is their own. Ford, the younger brother of England fly- -half George, told The Rugby Paper: “...

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