LIST | 5 Rugby players who got in BIG trouble at school

The stories range from the bizarre to the hilarious. Read on for more!

The powerhouse back-rower was kicked off his school rugby team aged 11 for being rude and had to pen a grovelling letter, his PE teacher. The then prop insisted he would 'improve my attitude' after being reprimanded by Lloyd Spacey, his teacher at The Castle School in Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

Mr Spacey said he told Vunipola he was out of the team after the schoolboy turned up to training 'in a foul, surly mood' and 'basically refused to do anything'. According to the Daily Telegraph, the next day Vunipola came into school with a letter saying: 'Dear Mr Spacey, I am sorry for walking off Friday.

The duo was suspended from school on a number of occasions. One of the funniest examples came courtesy of Robin Cowling, Exeter Chiefs academy manager, who revealed they put their headmistress’ son in a wheelie bin once! 

In 2003 England rugby star James Haskell, then 18, filmed his friend Paul Doran-Jones, who was 17 at the time, having sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend by using a secret camera set up in a boys’ dormitory at Wellington College in Crowthorne.

The boys then showed the video to their friends and were subsequently suspended from the Dukes Ride school.

Since then both boys have gone on to become successful rugby players with both representing England.