Honest policy

He knows very little about Sunday’s Heineken Cup Munster and cannot name one prop that really troubled him, but All Black legend Craig Dowd ia not an arrogant player, merely an honest one. Hugh Farrelly met the family man who is loving his rugby with the Wasps.

WARREN GATLAND ambles by, looking at ease with the world. The former Ireland coach was deemed surplus to requirements by the IRFU at the end of 2001 and left Galway for the lights of London where he has turned Wasps from a collection of talented individuals into a team.

A team that captured the Zurich Premiership and Parker Pen Shield last season, tops the Premiership this season and stands four-square between Munster and their third appearance in a Heineken Cup final.