Ex-All Black Mehrtens backing sleeping giant Beziers

On Friday, the once-mighty club hosts league leaders Brive knowing that there will be no fairytale ascension, this season at least, into the Top 14. Instead, the club that he took over in November along with ex-South Africa flanker Bobby Skinstad and an Irish consortium, including the late former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan, will have to regroup and start again next season in the ProD2. It was a surprise to many when the takeover was announced but for Mehrtens, who spent two years as...