The former Leicester, Rotherham, Bedford & Coventry prop talks about his life in the game

Growing up in North Lincolnshire, Leicester Tigers were my club. I idolised the ‘ABC Club’ so to get a phone call from Richard Cockerill asking me to come down and have a trial, and to then be coached by him and Graham Rowntree after winning a two-year academy deal at Tigers was a really big thing for me. I thought they’d be very hard operators but they were very patient with us young lads and the technical detail was next level.
At the time, I’d just left Worksop College Sixth Form and had been ...