Zimbabwe: ZRU Decision Costs Cheetahs

31 March 2014

THE Zimbabwe Rugby Union's decision to let director of rugby Liam Middleton run the show in the Sevens game after he imposed himself as coach backfired at the weekend as the Cheetahs could not impress and failed to last the distance in the second tier core membership qualifier tournament.

The writing had been on the wall two weeks before the Cheetahs played in the Hong Kong leg of the Sevens World Series that they were highly likely not going to make it as a core member because of the in-house fighting.

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