Former IRFU director Nucifora joins Scotland set-up

Scottish rugby will be hoping that performance guru David Nucifora can do for them what he did for Ireland after he agreed a part-time role with the country’s union to oversee their player development programme.

Nucifora, a former test hooker for his native Australia, spent more than a decade as performance director of the Irish Rugby Union and is credited with overseeing a structural rebuild that helped them become one of the strongest teams in world rugby.

He has now accepted an...