Boyd to stay in Europe

Chris

Former Super Rugby champion coach

is planning to stay coaching in Europe before an eventual return home to New Zealand. Boyd, who guided the Hurricanes to the 2016 Super Rugby title, joined the Northampton Saints as director of rugby in 2018. In a wide-ranging interview with The Rugby Paper, Boyd talked about how world rugby must find a way to bring Pacific Islands teams into domestic competitions, and he also touched on his own immediate future. The 61-year-old’s Northampton contract ends in 2021, and he said he has not immediate intentions to return to New Zealand rugby. ‘‘The only thing that will lure my wife and I away from Northampton is the desire to eventually go back home to New Zealand and spend more time with our family and friends there, but there’s still quite a lot we’d like to get ticked off in Europe.’’

Boyd

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