MY LIFE IN RUGBY
THE FORMER SALE SHARKS, WORCESTER, ROTHERHAM, LEEDS AND ROUEN PROP
ROB O’DONNELL

BIG tall props were fashionable in the mid-2000s – you had the likes of Andrew Sheridan and Soane Tonga’uiha making a huge impact – so, at 6ft 5ins, I suddenly found myself in demand.
Phil Winstanley, below, must have seen something in me and took me under his wing at Waterloo and it wasn’t long before I had Premiership interest from Sale, Leicester and Saracens. I met with the first two but went for the Sharks as they were closer to my home in Liverpool and had won the Premiership the yea...