Marcelo Bosch going from chasing a European/Premiership double... to level five rugby in England
English Midlands Premier outfit Burton have pulled off the coup of the year, signing former Argentina international Marcelo Bosch who is hoping to sign off from Saracens with a European Cup/Gallagher Premiership double.
The 35-year-old midfielder confirmed in early April that this would be his last season playing for the double-chasing Londoners, but his next move into English grassroots rugby will amaze people who feel he can still do a job in the professional ranks.
Instead of chasing top spot in the Premiership and hunting down European trophies, Bosch’s friendship with Burton director of rugby Mark Tweedle will now see him involved with a Midlands Premier outfit that finished seventh in a 14-team division that was won this year by Scunthorpe.
The Midland Premier is the fifth level of the pyramid structure in England and Bosch, who published a near three-minute video announcing his signing, can’t wait to get started.
“I’m currently a rugby player for Saracens,” he said initially in his message posted just two days before Saturday’s Champions Cup final versus Leinster. “I have been here for the last six years. We have the final of Europe now on Saturday and afterwards hopefully another one in three weeks’ time of the Premiership.
Look who's coming to Peel Croft, yes that's right @chelobosch84 is joining us from @Saracens Already looking forward to next season! pic.twitter.com/XHOBmkNqHp
— Burton Rugby Club (@BurtonRFC) May 9, 2019
“Before I was in Biarritz, a club in France, for seven years and before that in Argentina where I was playing amateur rugby. It has been almost 13 years since I left Argentina and this journey as professional rugby player is coming to an end, but a new chapter is going to start and I’m very excited about it.
“As you may know, I know Mark and I will be working for him from now onwards. He invited me to be part of Burton Rugby Club from the next season onwards, which I’m very excited about. In our conversations he told me about the club and in a way I can see myself over there due to my experiences in the past.
An amazing win yesterday from the team and an emotional game for me. But definitely felt the love and support of all the @saracens family and for that I’ll be forever grateful. Cheers to another great memory with the club. pic.twitter.com/bxdcs2knhu
— Marcelo Bosch (@chelobosch) May 5, 2019
“I come from an amateur background in Argentina. I come from a club called Belgrano Athletic. It’s a club that has a background from here in the UK. It’s pretty old, it’s from 1896 and it’s one of the four clubs that founded rugby in Argentina. It’s a club where I first started playing and made friends for my whole life.
“The six years in Saracens I have been experiencing the vision of this cub because when I started playing Saracens wasn’t what it was nowadays, winning trophies and competing every year for trophies. But I can understand how we arrived at this point.
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@chelobosch84 and Schalk Burger reflect on the Chiefs game, talk about the emotional occasion and friendship. ?? pic.twitter.com/VjPMF0YY1R
— Saracens Rugby Club (@Saracens) May 6, 2019
“It was the vision of the club and the values that we have, and in a way with the values you have in your club and the vision of what you want to achieve as a club, I see myself over there and I’m really looking forward to helping you out as a coach perhaps, as an advisor, perhaps as a player as well if I still have the legs.
“First of all, I want to say congratulations on an amazing season last year. I know that it was a tough season for you because it was a new category, but you made the job and you’re still in the same category, so I’m really looking forward to adding some value to you guys in the next season and to meet you all.”
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🤦♂️🤣 who cares who’s the best . All I know is the All Blacks have the star coach but have few star players now …
29 Go to commentsJe suis sûr que Farrell est impatient de jouer avec Lopez et Machenaud et d’être entraîné par Collazo… 🤭
1 Go to commentsAn on field red (aka a full red) in SRP must surely carry a bigger suspension than a red card given by the bunker as that carries a 20 minute team punishment. Had Damon Murphy abdicated his responsibility as a ref and issued both Drua players a yellow, which would have been upgraded to a 20 minute red by the bunker, that would have killed Australia and New Zealand’s push for the 20 minute red to be trialled globally from July this year.
11 Go to commentsEver so often you all post a Danny Care story that isn’t the announcement that he has finally re-signed for one more, victory tour season at Quins and I’m just like, “well you fooled me again!” My absolute favorite player ever, we need to make his final year at the Stoop (and Twickers) official already. I know he supposedly snubbed France but I won’t feel better until he signs.
1 Go to commentslate hit what late hit it wasn’t at all late and can clearly see he was committed before the tackle
1 Go to commentsChristian Lio -Willies 2 try perfomance was a standout. As was captain Scott Barrett. Up front was where the boys won it.They are a great team and players. Fantastic Crusades , you can keep going.
1 Go to commentsI don't know how the locals feel about that? I guess if you call yourselves the Worcester Wasps that might be appease. But really we need more teams in the Premiership in my view so they are not padding it out as they are at the moment. It might curtail so many players going abroad as well
5 Go to commentsNZ 😭😭😭is certainly rivaling England for best whingers cup!😭😭😭 !!!
29 Go to commentsYup. New Zealand won 3 out of 10 world cups played. SA 4 out of 8 attempts 30 Vs 50 per cent.🤔🤔
29 Go to commentsShould've done this years ago. Change Saturday kick off times to around 11am. Up and off and back home before 3pm, limit travel time too. Allows players to actually do something else with their Saturday that's family oriented or being rugby fans they could ‘watch’ pro rugby. Increases crowds etc. How can anyone that enjoys grassroots and pro rugby have to choose between the two on Saturdays?
9 Go to commentsI bet he inspired those supporters just as much.
1 Go to commentsBen Smith Springboks living rent free in his head 😊😂
67 Go to commentsGood to hear he would like to play the game at the highest level, I hadn’t been to sure how much of a motivator that was before now. Sadly he’s probably chosen the rugby club to go to. Try not to worry about all the input about how you should play rugby Joey and just try to emulate what you do on the league field and have fun. You’ll limit your game too much (well not really because he’s a standard athlete like SBW and he’ll still have enough) if you’re trying to make sure you can recycle the ball back etc. On the other hard, you can totally just try and recycle by looking to offload any and everywhere if you’re going to ground 😋
1 Go to commentsThis just proves that theres always a stat and a metric to use to justify your abilities and your success. Ben did it last week by creating an imaginary competition and now you did the same to counter his argument and espouse a new yardstick for success. Why not just use the current one and lets say the Boks have won 4 world cups making them the most successful world cup team. Outside of the world cup the All Blacks are the most successful team winning countless rugby championships and dominating the rankings with high win percentages. Over the last 4 years statistically the Irish are the best having the highest win rate and also having positive records against every tier 1 side. The most successful Northern team in the game has been England with a world cup title and the most six nations titles in history. The AB’s are the most dominant team in history with the highest win rate and 3 world cups. Lets not try to reinvent the wheel. Just be honest about the actual stats and what each team has been good at doing and that will be enough to define their level of success.
29 Go to commentsHow is 7’s played there? I’m surprised 10 or 11 man rugby hasn’t taken off. 7 just doesn’t fit the 15s dynamics (rules n field etc) but these other versions do.
9 Go to commentsPick Swinton at your peril A liability just like JWH from the Roosters Skelton ??? went missing at RWC
14 Go to commentsLike tennis, who have a ranking system, and I believe rugby too, just measure over each period preceding a world cup event who was the longest number one and that would be it. In tennis the number one player frequently is not the grand slam winner. I love and adore the All Blacks since the days of Ian Kirkpatrick when I was a kid in SA. And still do because they are the masters of running rugby and are gentleman on and off the field - in general. And in my opinion they have been the majority of the time the best rugby team in the world.
29 Go to commentsHaving overseas possessions in 2024 is absurd. These Frenchies should have to give the New Caledonians their freedom.
21 Go to commentsBell injured his foot didn’t he? Bring Tupou in he’ll deliver when it counts. Agree mostly but I would switch in the Reds number 8 Harry Wilson for Swinton and move Rob Valentini to 6 instead. Wilson is a clever player who reads the play, you can’t outmuscle the AB’s and Springboks, if you have any chance it’s by playing clever. Same goes for Paisami, he’s a little guy who doesn’t really trouble the likes of De Allende and Jordie Barrett. I’d rather play Carter Gordon at 12 and put Michael Lynagh’s boy at 10. That way you get a BMT type goalkicker at 10 and a playmaker at 12. Anyways, just my two cents as a Bok supporter.
14 Go to commentsThanks Brett, love your articles which are alway pertinent. It’s a difficult topic trying to have a panel adjudicating consistently penalties for red card issues. Many of the mitigating reasons raised are judged subjectively, hence the different outcomes. How to take away subjective opinions?
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