Former Leinster, Rotherham Titans, London Irish, Oyonnax, Carcassonne, Massy and Ireland U18/20 centre Eamonn Sheridan reflects on his life in rugby.

When I tell people about my time at Oyonnax, they think I am exaggerating. I promise you I am not.
Our very first “discipline” meeting in France set the tone. We had finished sixth in the Top 14, were in the Heineken Cup, and the big new rule for this serious, high-performance campaign was… no more smoking or drinking on the bus on the way to games.
That was presented as a major cultural reset. For those of us who had come from Ireland and En...