Ten ways to make 2016 a vintage year for rugby union

Making the most of the Olympics, keeping the fans who went to the World Cup, a revitalised France and hungry Lions in New Zealand would be a year to savourAs the rain hammers down in Europe the hard, dry pitches and quick feet that shaped the 2015 World Cup feel like a distant memory. Even running the ball on artificial surfaces is proving a hazardous exercise in this wettest of winters; pity the enlightened backs coach trying to coax something different from his bedraggled troops. Until the day rugby union alters its global calendar, though, it falls to players, coaches and groundsmen to make…