Henry's Euro switch bid fails
by Scrum's Celtic Nations Editor, Jonathan McConnell
July 31, 2000

Attempts by Welsh coach Graham Henry to have the dates of the Heineken Cup switched have fallen on deaf ears among the competition's organisers.

A Welsh newspaper has claimed that Henry wrote to the ERC in a bid to have the final two group rounds and the quarter finals, which are all in January, moved back so that test teams had a longer preparation period before the Six Nations.

The South Wales Evening Post quote Henry as saying, "I got no change, but at least I voiced my opinion and got it off my chest. We have a long way to go to get the structure right in this part of the world. We have competitions finishing at the same time and a disregard for the Six Nations and its importance, and we have the Lions tour on top of that."

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