MY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER MOSELEY & CORNISH PIRATES FLY-HALF/FULL-BACK
OLLIE THOMAS

MY route to rugby was different from the modern-day route as my dad (Alun) was a former player at Moseley who also ended up being the groundsman there for 30 years. So I basically spent all my summer holidays down at the Reddings, occupying myself with a ball six or seven hours each day. I suppose it was my destiny to become a Moseley player from a young age.
As a teenager I was slightly built and it got to the stage where I thought rugby wouldn’t be my thing as all my contemporaries we...