Docherty backs former internationals in switch

DUTCH superstar Laurence Docherty has backed the decisions by former Ireland internationals Iain Lewers and Mark Gleghorne to switch their allegiance to Great Britain.

The Bloemendaal man can fully understand the duo’s decision, having famously switched from his native Scotland to the Netherlands, having failed to make the Great Britain squad for the 2000 Olympics.

Lewers and Gleghorne are both roughly midway through their three years in the international “wilderness” – a part of the criteria for players wishing to change from one international team to another.