BUILDING A professional rugby club without solid foundations isn’t normally a rush job. It’s a Grand Designs-type project that takes years, if not decades – and even then it might all come tumbling down after you max out all your credit cards.
Yet Sam Harris has had to don a hard hat and do just that in a matter of weeks with Major League Rugby’s newest franchise, the Chicago Hounds.
It was formally announced back in November that the Hounds would become the 12th MLR team in a league temporarily reduced to 11 following the withdrawal of the LAamongst their ranks) had to work overtime to get things in place.
