This time last year the English rugby public at large had never heard of Alex Dombrandt, let alone seen him in action.He reported for pre-season training at Harlequins straight from a relegation scrap with Cardiff Metropolitan University in the nether regions of the second-tier Welsh championship featuring such clubs as Skewen, Glynneath and Beddau.
Dombrandt’s final act as a student, played out in front of a crowd of ‘about 50 and a couple of dogs’, was to help save his pals from demotion by beating Bedlinog. The departing Londoner had created an impression as mighty as h...