MY LIFE IN RUGBY
CARL KIRWAN

THE NOTTINGHAM FLANKER, FORMERLY OF ROTHERHAM, LONDON WELSH, WORCESTER & CHINNOR

Mixing it with the best of them: Carl Kirwan playing for Worcester against Saracens
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I HAD a bit of an odd route into the game. I came out of college and went straight into scaffolding offshore, and it just so happened that Andre Bester picked me up at a Yorkshire U20s game while I was back on the mainland and took me onto Rotherham full-time. Their ambition outweighed their finances – my first contract was £600 per month – but I sa...