Club owner Brian Kennedy said: “I am personally very disappointed that this has not worked out. We will now undertake a thorough search to secure the best coaching team and structure for the future. We have a superb crop of young players coming through the academy, a set of established internationals plus the desire to make a number of key new signings over the next six months.”
Meanwhile at Bath, Butch James, the World Cup winning fly-half, who still has one year to run on his contract, has served notice that he want to leave the club at the end of the season in an attempt to challenge for a regular starting spot with South Africa for the 2011 World Cup.
Bath have seen very little of James this season after he returned to Britain from the Tri-Nations with a serious shoulder injury although they will be looking to the Springbok to help turn around their slump in form. “There’s a couple of reasons for wanting to leave Bath and the World Cup is one of them,” said James, who joined the club after the 2007 World Cup.
“I’m not too sure how much longer these legs have in them and I want at least one season at home. You never know when that day might come and so I want to get back there and not regret not having gone home. These have probably been my most enjoyable years playing rugby.”
Paul O’Connell’s attempt to get his one-month suspension overturned for striking Jonathan Thomas when playing for Munster against Ospreys in the Heineken Cup earlier this month failed yesterday when his appeal was rejected by a European Rugby Cup disciplinary committee.
The Ireland lock will be free to play again from Jan 10 as per the original decision.
Leicester flanker Tom Croft is likely to miss most of the Six Nations after further medical investigations have suggested it could be another two months before he recovers from the fractured shoulder injury he incurred playing for England against South Africa at Twickenham last month.
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