MY LIFEIN RUGBY

DAVE ATTWOOD
THE FORMER ENGLAND, BRISTOL, BATH, GLOUCESTER AND TOULON SECOND ROW

BEING blunt about it, I was crap at rugby when I first started out. I was just a big kid, bigger than most. I certainly didn’t know the laws and I almost got sent off in my first game for Frampton Cotterell Rugby Club minis for slide tackling. Before long, I moved to Bristol minis and juniors, which wasn’t affiliated to the professional club, but it got me noticed and I became involved with the junior academy at the Shoguns, as it was back then.
One day, Paul Hull, who w...