Laurie Fisher brings the bite back to Gloucester

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 …