FOR MANY parents, the best thing about having teenagers is that they don’t stay adolescents forever.
Adult life gets us all eventually. But for Jonathan Pendlebury and Mark Mapletoft, the England men’s U18 and U20 coaches, there’s a constant cycle of talented teenagers coming through under their watchful eye.
Within these pages we often focus on the cut and thrust of elite rugby. The day-to-day results grind. Jobs are on the line for players and staff and we need no reminder of the harsh reality of the current state of the professional game in England after losing four
