TONY GULLIVER
THE FORMER COVENTRY LOCK AND CURRENT TEAM MANAGER

All I wanted to do once I started playing rugby at Whitley Abbey School was to pull on a Coventry shirt; so to go on and to play for my hometown club 381 times was an unbelievable honour. To see my son, Ben, follow in my footsteps and play for Cov’ was really good too.
I class myself as a oneclub man because I played all my rugby from the age of 18 at Cov’ although, I did play a bit of first-team rugby for Broadstreet, who I started out with at Colts level, before joining the club.
My first team debut came in a mi...