EWANASHMAN
SALE SHARKS HOOKER
As aspiring hookers go, few can have benefitted from the wealth of expertise and knowledge Ewan Ashman has been subjected to in his position over the last 18 months. Former England No.2 Rob Webber was his coach at junior club Sandbach RFC for a couple of years before mentoring him at Sale, while he has two other gnarled old hookers to turn to nowadays with Steve Diamond and Dorian West running forwards operations at Sharks.
To top things off, a loan spell at Edinburgh in 2019 brought him under the tutelage of another former England front row warrior in Richard ...