My Life in 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 was the academy manage...