The former Ireland and Lions lock has been part of French rugby for 18 years.
JEREMY DAVIDSON IS outside the Gary Whetton bar in the main stand of Castres ’ Stade Pierre Fabre, toasting victory over Munster with a well-earned pint of Guinness, when the small crew of travelling Irish media locate him.
Davidson worked wonders with Aurillac, who he helped punch way above their weight in the Pro D2 for six years before a one-year spell as Bordeaux’s forwards coach led to a job as Brive’s boss. He guided them to promotion into the Top 14 and solidified their position in the top flight until 2022 when Brive decided to go in another direction only to be relegated at the end of that season.
“I think I’ve been bouncing around doing a good job in many clubs that I’ve been to but I haven’t won any competitions. When I was at Aurillac we had the 16th budget out of 16 clubs in Pro D2 and we got to a final and two semi-finals. “It’s slightly different in the smaller clubs in the second division where you really don’t have any money at all and sometimes some of your players are going to go somewhere else. But they always seem to keep the guys they want to keep hold of.
“We had targeted that,” said Davidson. “We use that move quite often but more generally when they’ve got a scrum-half there.”
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