Moving up and breaking new ground at Racing

It’s been a feelgood week around the Racing training ground in Paris.

A win over Montpellier last weekend was followed by our president’s announcement that ground had been broken on the club’s new 40,000-capacity Arena 92. First games there at the back end of 2016.

Then the club revealed it had inked a deal to bring Mike Phillips on board. Win, win, win for the club ahead of a huge pair of Heineken Cup fixtures against a rejuvenated Harlequins. It’s critically important we don’t allow the sense of momentum to dissipate tomorrow.