Reds row as Elsom ‘likely’ to join Brumbies

LEINSTER’s Rocky Elsom admits he is ‘likely’ to sign for the ACT Brumbies after rejecting offers from the Queensland Reds due to a ‘difference of opinion over the direction of the club.’

The Reds had been favourites to recruit Elsom on his return from his eight-month stint in Dublin, with the 40-Test blindside flanker insisting he would talk to no other province as long as the Queensland deal proceeded smoothly.

But Elsom revealed: “We had a difference of opinion over the direction of the club and ultimately had I gone there that would have been divisive. I wouldn’t have been able to go to the club without trying to make it the way I wanted it and in the end I just knew it wouldn’t be a good fit.”