Test your rugby knowledge: Did you know these players actually played for these teams?
Check out these 5 Players you Didn’t Know Played For These Teams:
1. Joe Launchbury (Harlequins)
The lanky second-row played for Horsham and also represented Barns Green before joining the Harlequins Academy age 15. After Quins failed to offer him a professional contract aged 18, he left the club and joined National League 2 South side Worthing for the 2009–10 season. He'd go onto join Wasps soon after and later became an England regular.
He's since gone on to captain Wasps and become a key player for England, winning 62 caps to date. I really hope someone at the Stoop got sacked for the awful decision to let him go.
2. Alex Goode - Bath
Following stints with Ipswich Town football club and Cambridge RUFC, the popular Saracens star actually spent a short while with the Bath academy before making the move to London.
DID YOU KNOW? He is the nephew of Jo Goode, who won an Olympic bronze in Badminton in Sydney, 2000.
3. Ben Foden - Chester
Despite a stellar career, the former England fullback often turns out for hometown club Chester RFC in National League 2 North alongside his brother Tom during the off-season of Major league Rugby.
4. Shane Williams - Amman United
The Wales legend made a return to Welsh rugby in 2017, coming out of retirement to play for his beloved Amman United. The former Wales and British Lions star stunned spectators as he took the field for his home town side in the National League 3 West B match against Burry Port. He then played for them in a final at the Millenium Stadium. He's since played a further handful of games for the club.
5. George Ford - Wigan Warriors/Bradford Bulls
Ford played rugby league from age 5 at Saddleworth Rangers and
Waterhead and as a young teenager played in the academies at both
Wigan Warriors and
Bradford Bulls.
He was offered terms by the Bulls and Leicester Tigers but chose to move to the academy at Welford Road.