Fabien Galthié has named Jeremy Ward, the Junior Springbok captain of 2016 and a Sharks centre for six seasons, in his France squad for next month’s Nations Championship. Paul Gustard, the Stade Français head coach who tracked him for six years before he signed him, tells James While how it happened and what Galthié is getting.
When I asked Gustard about Ward this week, he began with “where do I start?” and then answered himself by going back six years, to Harlequins, to a squad he was rebuilding around a teenager called Marcus Smith, and to a Sharks centre he’d never
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