If Scotland win in Paris, there may be booing…
I met up with Dan Carter at Eden Park in Auckland last Saturday, but the chat was all too brief. He’s in remarkable nick. The Crusaders’ Matt Todd and Tim Bateman had seen him performing up close in Japan and reckoned his speed mechanics are better now than ever. He’s had an MVP championship-winning season with the Kobe Steelers, and Jacky Lorenzetti, the owner of Racing 92, has acted fast to get Carter as a medical wild card for the rest of the Top 14 campaign in France. Smart move.
Dan’s a god with a ball. A freak, running in tries from 45m at nearly 37 years of age. He’s an animal to train. If he can keep his body going, he will be an important asset for my old club in Paris. Things haven’t been going too well for Racing this season. They lie seventh in the Top 14 and, though the play-offs are well within their compass, they lost another bad one at home to Toulouse last weekend. Pat Lambie has been forced into premature retirement with concussion symptoms, and Finn Russell, the Scotland 10, went off in the first half last weekend in Paris with a similar issue.
