David Paice, the former England and London Irish hooker, looks back on his career in the game

IT feels like a lifetime ago now that me and a few mates in the Queensland Schoolboys team were sitting around and having a few beers and in a slightly drunken state of youthful exuberance, we all decided that we’d go to the UK and play rugby. I went home, booked my plane ticket and rocked up the next day to tell them proudly, ‘I’ve got my ticket’ and they all looked very sheepish because they’d thought better of it. In the end, I was the only one that travelled over from Brisbane but, luckily, I h...