MY LIFEIN RUGBY
JOHN DUDLEY

THE FORMER ROTHERHAM & NORTH OF ENGLAND LOCK/BACK ROW

Take that: John Dudley celebrates Rotherham’s famous play-off victory against Bedford in 2000

BACK in the day, when we first started in Leagues in 1987, we began in North East 2.
I missed the very first league game because I was still banned from the year before. I can’t remember what I’d done, but that was when rucking was rucking so boots or fists would likely have been involved. People who’d never been to a rugby match before would say, ‘what’s gone...