‘You had to earn the right to wear the shirt’

My Life in Rugby with Jackson Wray

The former Saracens and Bedford Blues back row talks about his life in the game
I’LL never forget walking in at Saracens for the first day of pre-season following the South African takeover in 2009 and everyone had name tags on. There had been a complete overhaul of the first-team squad with about 20 new players and staff brought in. It was largely a bunch of relative strangers gathered together in a room. With my surname, people used to joke that I was the son he (Nigel Wray) never had. But I soon managed to get rid of that!
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