Big battle brewing between four players to take...
By John Wilkinson, Coventry Telegraph.
April 29 2015
...Coventry RFC's No.10 shirt.
The battle for No.10 at the Butts Park Arena next season could be as intense as it is across the country approaching the General Election.
While Wales international fly-half Matt Jones is set to put pen to paper this week to commit to a third season at Coventry, the club’s first two announced new signings of the summer will both be aiming to put him under pressure come September – 23-year-old Caolan Ryan, who joins from Moseley after a successful loan spell at Stourbridge this season, and Adam Canning, 27, who has signed from Birmingham & Solihull after ending the current season as the second-highest scorer in National League Two North with 297 points.
Add to the mix Cliffie Hodgson, who came to Cov as a 10 but has played most of his recent rugby at full-back or centre, and Cov appear to have plenty of options and quality cover for the playmaker role.
It is a challenge which the experienced 31-year-old current incumbent Jones will surely respond to after playing every game in the season just finished and, first-choice kicker for the final few weeks after an injury to leading points-scorer Hodgson, contributing 187 points.
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