FORMER COVENTRY, PLYMOUTH, CORNISH PIRATES, WORCESTER AND BEDFORD LOCK

BEN GULLIVER

AS soon as I joined Coventry I got beaten up. People said I was only there because of my dad, Tony, who’d retired only four or five years before. They had quite a decent pack at the time and it took me a while to prove myself and break into the team.
I made my debut down at Exeter’s County Ground and we had Zinzan Brooke playing for us. I came on 20 minutes into the first half and started to call the lineouts – they all went horribly wrong and ‘Zinny’ said I’d never do i...