Rugby: Wasps have appointed Dai Young as their new director of rugby, the club announced today. Young joins from Welsh region Cardiff Blues and replaces Tony Hanks, who presided over Wasps's decline as a force in the Aviva Premiership.

The 43-year-old former Wales and Lions prop won the Amlin Challenge Cup and EDF Energy Cup and reached the semi-finals of the Heineken during his nine-year reign at the Blues.

“This is an enormous opportunity for me. I loved my time at Cardiff but I’m looking forward to a new experience in a new environment,” said Young. “There is a hugely talented group of players here to work with and the challenge to help a great club into a position where they are once again challenging for success was too good to turn down.”