Tell us about your rugby background… My dad played rugby at Newcastle and I wasn’t pushed to play, but I started at the age of about six and loved it.…
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Hotshot: Scarlets fly-half Billy McBryde
When did you start playing rugby? I went to my local club, Tumble, when I was six or seven. I was there through the age grades and got picked up…
Hotshot: Leinster fly-half Joey Carbery
You were born in New Zealand. Did you start your rugby there? Yes, at my school St Joseph’s in Dargaville. My dad and grandad were keen to get a rugby…
Hotshot: Saracens prop Billy Walker
Tell us about your rugby background… My dad and older brothers played so I wanted to as well and I started when I was about five at Chelmsford rugby club.…
Hotshot: Edinburgh/London Scottish scrum-half Hugh Fraser
When did you first play rugby? At Teddington aged six. My dad was a big rugby fan and I was rugby mad as a child. What happened next? I stayed…
Hotshot: Yorkshire Carnegie flanker Josh Bainbridge
So Josh, when did you start rugby? I joined Guisborough from U10s because a lot of friends played and my grandad used to play. I had a season at U15s…
Hotshot: Ospreys centre Owen Watkin
When did you take up rugby, Owen? When I was four, with Tondu. I stayed with them for a few years, then moved on to Bryncethin when I was 15.…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints Francis Saili Munster replacement Francis Saili took his team into the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup as Pool One winners as he scored the match-winning try against Glasgow…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints CJ Stander Munster put Racing 92 to the sword in their rearranged European Champions Cup clash, trouncing their hosts 32-7. The whole Munster team did their late…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints Jamison Gibson-Park Leinster’s Kiwi scrum-half is a hero for his province after he conjured their bonus-point try out of nothing six minutes from the end of their Champions…