When profiling a player, you will ask a coach or family member at what point they realised the player was special and you are typically told a story about a length-of-the-field try or a match-saving tackle in the 80th minute of their school’s cup final. At Harlequins, they tell a slightly different tale about prop Fin Baxter and a PowerPoint presentation.
Before joining Harlequins as their head of performance support and player well-being, Andy Sanger served for 30 years in the British Army as a bomb-disposal expert, undertaking tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. When he arrived at the club, he soon realised there was a natural crossover between his two passions.