No time for tropes as Chris Wyles backs US rugby

Chris Wyles. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Chris Wyles was one of only a sprinkling of professional rugby players representing the red, white, and blue of the USA Eagles for the best part of a decade up to his Test swansong at the 2015 World Cup.

The former Saracens wing loved every minute of it, and finished up captaining his country in England, but the Eagles have moved on since then and Wyles, now back as a coach consultant in Gary Gold’s coaching set-up, believes American rugby is finally in a place to put its best foot forward and realise of some of that great potential.