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Simon Linsell: Playing at Kingsholm was a dream come true

Simon Linsell:

Simon Linsell
The former Hartpury, Gloucester, and Ealing forward, who is now forwards coach at Barnes.

I’ll never forget the first proper rugby lesson I got. I was 15, freshly invited to a Gloucester Academy training session.
My sister had just passed her driving test, and we got stuck in some brutal rush hour traffic on the way to Hartpury. I was about 90 seconds late.
I ran out onto the pitch thinking, “It’s fine, it’s less than two minutes.” Mark Cornwall, who was coaching at the time, didn’t see it that way.
I got the mother of all dressings-down. Absolutely torn to bits.
I genuinely ...

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