MARK GABEY
FORMER REDS, BRISTOL, L IRISH, BATH, WORCS AND PERTEMPS BEES LOOSE FORWARD

CALL it laziness if you will, but I always used to leave a bit of mud on my boots from the weekend before as a reminder that you’re only as good as your last game.
While I never got to full international status, I played with plenty who did. Tim Horan and Jason Little were the centres when I joined Queensland Reds on a Super Rugby contract. To get praise off players like that, and later at Bath and London Irish, meant the world to me as they did not have to go out of their way to say ‘well do...