Humphreys latest member of green lobby

New director of rugby at Gloucester joins countrymen in making mark across the Irish Sea, writes Owen SlotThe trend in Europe, for some time, has been to go Kiwi.

The Kiwi coaches are everywhere.

New Zealanders are coaching half the RBS Six Nations Championship teams and two of the four Welsh regions, and it is hardly unknown for the Lions to opt for grey matter from New Zealand, too.

Yet in England, where the Aviva Premiership starts tonight, the trend has been resisted as clubs have looked in a different direction: towards Ireland.

Brian Smith, the London Irish director of rugby and a…