Laurie Fisher brings the bite back to Gloucester
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Gloucester knew what they were getting when they recruited Laurie Fisher from the Brumbies to be their new head coach last summer.
Soon after arriving, he was presented with a specially commissioned bucket hat that has been his trademark since he became a coach in 2000.
With his ragged hair protruding outwards and a striking white beard, Fisher possesses the most distinctive features of any rugby coach.
Appropriately, his nickname is “Lord” – which was given to him on a 1982 rugby tour – and it does not take a great leap of the imagination to picture him in a rickety pulpit in deepest …
Soon after arriving, he was presented with a specially commissioned bucket hat that has been his trademark since he became a coach in 2000.
With his ragged hair protruding outwards and a striking white beard, Fisher possesses the most distinctive features of any rugby coach.
Appropriately, his nickname is “Lord” – which was given to him on a 1982 rugby tour – and it does not take a great leap of the imagination to picture him in a rickety pulpit in deepest …