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Capped at 20, Nick was one of RGS’ finest

Huge loss: Nick Duncombe

ONE of the many top players produced by RGS High Wycombe was scrum-half Nick Duncombe who, alas, died of meningitis, aged just 21, in February 2003 when on a short mid-season break in Lanzarote.
Duncombe was a blazing young talent, razor sharp, clever and very competitive and had already been capped by Clive Woodward who very much saw him as an England regular for the future, the man to take over when the triumvirate of Matt Dawson, Kyran Bracken and Andy Gomarsall departed the scene.
His career at RGS had been meteoric, skippering the school to the Daily Mai...

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