FORMER ORRELL AND LEEDS HOOKER

ROB RAWLINSON

OUR celebrations lasted well into the night when we beat Bath to lift the Powergen Cup in 2005. Me and Richard Parks got a lift home from a policeman who spotted us walking the streets of Leeds in our dishevelled suits at 7.15 on the Sunday morning.
I’d come off the bench for the last 10 minutes or so and to get the chance to run out at Twickenham, in an occasion like that, was just brilliant. Those were great days to be a Leeds player.
I’d started off life as a tight-head prop at Orrell, making my debut against Bath at Central Park...