By PAUL REES

JAMES Whitcombe was born and brought up in Yorkshire, but Leicester was the only club the prop wanted to play for.
His father, Martin, was a prop at Welford Road in the 1980s and Whitcombe comes from a celebrated rugby family. His grandfather, Frank Jr, was a prop who played union for Bradford and Keighley while his great-grandfather, Frank, was a Welshman who had stints with Cardiff and London Welsh before turning professional.
He played for Broughton Rangers and Bradford Northern, capped by Wales and Great Britain and regarded as one of the best front row forwards to pla...