GLASGOW WARRIORS head coach Franco Smith is going to be stuck back in Scotland watching the game on television when his side take on a star-studded Sharks line-up in Durban this afternoon, due to his UK work visa not yet being approved.
If he leaves the country now, he will have to restart the application process, so the South African wasn’t able to fly out to his homeland with the rest of the squad on Monday, meaning attack coach Nigel Carolan is leading operations on the ground until the situation is resolved.
“We are monitoring it very closely, hoping he is here as soon as possible,” said Glasgow managing director Al Kellock. “It generally takes about three weeks [for the visa application to be completed], and we are past that point now, so we were hopeful it would have been done by now, but it hasn't come through in time.
