Fresh start: Hugh Tizard “cannot wait to get stuck in” at Saracens after making the tough decision to leave Harlequins
(Picture: Saracens)When the Premiership’s early season fixture list dropped, Hugh Tizard received a text from his Dad. “You can’t write it,” it read. “It just had to be.”
That was because Tizard’s first game for his new club Saracens was to be at the Stoop against Harlequins, the club from which he had moved. The rivalry between the sides has been fierce in recent years, not least in last season’s Premiership semi-final, when there was trash talk in the build-up and fireworks on the pitch. On that occasion, the lock was on the losing side.
