THE FORMER LEICESTER, COVENTRY, NOTTINGHAM, CORNISH PIRATES, NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS, LONDON IRISH AND LONDON WELSH LOCK

RIGHT the way through my ten-year pro career, rugby was never something that completely defined me. I loved it to bits, but I always had lots of other interests outside of the game.
When I first started at Leicester, my thinking seemed a lot different to most of the other young lads, which gets you labelled as strange a lot of the time. But while I respected guys were there because of their attitude and singlemindedness, I never wanted to sacrifice my personality to the ext...