England head coach Gareth Southgate has been at the Harlequins training ground this week as they prepare for Saturday’s last-16 second leg against the Top 14 leaders Montpellier at Twickenham Stoop in a crunch Champions Cup tie
Last Updated: 13/04/22 6:53pm
Gareth Southgate has been assisting Harlequins ahead of their Champions Cup tie against Montpellier at Twickenham Stoop
Harlequins have enlisted the help of Gareth Southgate to assist in staging an
unlikely comeback in their Heineken Champions Cup tie against Montpellier.
Montpellier have a 14-point lead from the first leg and with the aggregate score from the home and away matches deciding who proceeds to the quarter-finals, the Gallagher Premiership champions must produce a special performance. “He was good, a lovely fella. Probably not as tall as I thought he was going to be! He was very softly spoken. He knew rugby and understood it.” Adam Jones “Gareth sat in our meetings and fed back to us a little bit of what he thought. It was great listening to some of his thoughts,” assistant coach Adam Jones said. “We tapped him up about the two legs because football teams would do the two-leg format way more than we would. I don’t want to give all the secrets away because Montpellier might be reading this!”He was good, a lovely fella. Probably not as tall as I thought he was going to be! He was very softly spoken. He knew rugby and understood it.”The impression we got was that he was here to learn off us as much as we were to learn from him. Probably shows how far we’ve come as an organisation.” Quins were 26-0 down by half-time of the first leg but the comeback kings of English rugby mounted …