After my time at Bath ended, I still had a little bit of fire left in the belly, as they say, so I agreed to join Scarlets on a short-term deal. But as soon as reality kicked in and I was actually training in the cold and the rain, I thought ‘what am I doing, I’m too old for this’. After three months, Glenn Delaney and I spoke, and I said I think it is time to call it a day. It got to the point where I was dreading going into training, not because of the environment but because I’d been doing it for too long.
I stopped in September when I was 34 but I still get a bit of a rugby fix by doi...