SOMEONE pointed out to me that winning silverware doesn’t happen very often so I can count myself as one of the lucky ones having celebrated two Championship promotion-winning campaigns with London Welsh, a County Championship win with Lancashire and a Lancashire Cup win with Waterloo. I came close to a Championship hattrick with Leeds but we we lost the 2017 play-off final to London Irish.
Two spells playing in New Zealand really cemented my belief that I wanted to be a pro rugby player. The first came after I deferred my final year at Uni and I played alongside Tom Wood, the former Engl...