TOM CAIRNS
EXETER SCRUM-HALF
Faced with the veritable battalion of scrum-halves standing in his way at Exeter, you might expect 18-year-old Tom Cairns to feel somewhat daunted. Not a bit of it, however, as the Teignmouth-born youngster plots a route towards breaking into their first team.
“I’ve been training with the senior squad for a while now and I’m really enjoying it,” says Cairns, who hails from the same secondary school as Sam and Joe Simmonds and also played his junior rugby at Teignmouth RFC before entering Exeter’s junior academy at 15.
“The com...