THEEnglish Premiership Dream Team of the season featured a back row forward from Croydon whom nobody had heard of when he arrived in Wales three years ago.
Now Alex Dombrandt is rubbing shoulders with Mako Vunipola and Jamie George in the Premiership pack as chosen by a panel of experts.
Not long after enrolling at Cardiff Met, Dombrandt had muscled his way into the Wales U20’s for the junior Six Nations of 2017. Once the word got out, Harlequins pulled off a coup by signing him ahead of the rest.
There was never any chance of the new boy hedging his international bets and joining the...