Darge hopes 'really good coach' Smith remains at Glasgow next season
Rory Darge can understand why Glasgow "really good" head coach Franco Smith is being linked with other jobs, but says the Warriors players are desperate for the South African to remain at Scotstoun.Smith is entering the final year of his contract and has been linked with a number of other jobs, most notably the vacant Wales head coach position.Following Glasgow's defeat to Leinster in the United Rugby Championship semi-final earlier this month, Smith refused to confirm if he will still be in charge next season, saying he would take time "to reflect a little bit" over the summer."He's a really good coach and showed that with getting the results last year," Darge said."He laid out to us after this year all the positives. It's obviously knockout rugby and when you lose, you have that disappointment. We've maybe brushed over a lot of the big wins that we had over the season."You focus on the next job and usually it's a game the following week, so you don't celebrate those big wins. But he wanted to do that. He wanted to highlight the good work that had gone into last season."He was speaking to us as players in that Monday review and laying out the good stuff that we'd done last season and the work to do next season."But you know, the way professional sport is, you don't know what's going to happen, but as it stands, obviously he's the coach."
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