BARRY STEWART

THE FORMER SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH, SALE AND NORTHAMPTON PROP
My journey from medical write-off in my mid-20s to winning Premiership and European honours with Sale and Northampton was brilliant, and one I look back on with as much bemusement as everyone else.
With lots of established players leaving to go south or overseas at the dawn of professionalism, young guys like myself got a lot of opportunities and in hindsight, I probably played too much too soon.
My body was starting to fall apart and, by 2000, when I won the last of my four Scotland caps (three against the All Blacks...