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Chris Lilley – I did fulfuil my dream of playing at Twickenham

Chris Lilley

My Life In Rugby - Chris Lilley, the former Bath & Somerset prop

My biggest claim to fame is I got Bath through to their first-ever John Player Cup Final in 1984.
Having beaten Wasps in the quarter-final, we played Nottingham away in the semis. The match had been postponed twice, I think, because of a flooded pitch and the game was right in the balance until I put a chip kick on a sixpence for David Trick to regather and score.
Being a prop, kicking wasn’t normally in my repertoire – kicking opponents, more like – but when Paul Simpson called for the ball from blind to open, Chris Stanl...

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