London Irish out to facilitate success as they move with Premiership times

The Exiles hope their new £12m Hazelwood training base will be the platform for glory as they address recruitment issues and forge closer links with Ireland to recreate the old Sunbury buzzDrive down to London Irishs old home in Sunbury, past the conker trees and neat suburban houses, and wistfulness is hard to resist. Two big diggers are picking over the shattered remains of what used to be the Exiles main stand. Dandelions now grow in the in-goal area. For anyone who came here in the cheerful amateur days when old-school correspondents would wipe holes in the condensation on the main bar wi…