An elite rugby agency takes RugbyPass inside the chaotic recruitment scenes as Worcester Warriors went to the wall.
Jack Cosgrove can remember sitting on a log in Pontcanna Fields, rain stinging his cheeks as he wondered whether to go home to a life of despair and worthlessness, or to end things there and then in the Cardiff park.
It wasn’t the hours of chemotherapy, the violent retching, the exhaustion, or the mental trauma of tackling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that stung Joe Batley deepest – it was a phone call.
Dragons have confirmed that prop Jack Cosgrove has retired from professional rugby on medical grounds with immediate effect.
RugbyPass rounds up all of the 2019/20 Gallagher Premiership player ins and outs where 10 of the teams will be chasing down Saracens and Exeter Chiefs at the top of the table.
Prop Jack Cosgrove has today put pen to paper on a deal to join Dragons Rugby.
Having announced eight departures last week, Worcester have been busy redressing the balance with an Ulster academy player their latest signing.
Six players will make their competitive debuts for the club when Bristol Bears kick off the Gallagher Premiership season on Friday against West Country rivals Bath.
