MY LIFE IN RUGBY
IAN KENCH

THE FORMER OXFORD UNIVERSITY, LOUGHBOROUGH, SALE, NOTTINGHAM AND ESHER LOCK
WHEN Mike Brewer came in at Sale, we had a whole squad meeting and he said, ‘I’ve done my analysis on you all and know you all inside and out, and I’m going to get rid of a lot of you because you’re not good enough’. He then said, ‘Peely (Dwayne Peel), you prefer box kicking off your right foot more than your left’ and pointed to Oriol Ripol, our Spanish winger. Everyone was like, ‘who on earth is this guy?’
To be fair, a lot of aspects of professional rugby had been a bit of a mystery t...