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Premiership bosses as players: What was your boss like on the pitch before he took his place as chief?

Saracens – Marck McCall – centre

The outside-centre played 13 times for the Ireland national rugby union team, making his debut against New Zealand on 30 May 1992 as a substitute.


Wasps – Dai Young – prop

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He played rugby union at club level for Swansea and Cardiff. Having not been selected to play for Wales in the 1987 Rugby World Cup, Young, then 19, travelled to Australia for the summer to play for Northern Suburbs.

However, when Stuart Evans broke his foot playing against Tonga, Young was on the right side of the world at the right time and was called up to the Welsh squad, making his début for Wales against England in the quarter-finals.

He toured Australia with the then British Lions in 1989, playing in all three test matches, with the Lions winning the test series 2-1.

Young moved to rugby league in 1990, signing for Leeds for a then world record of £150,000. He went on to play for Salford, won 14 caps for Wales and captained Wales in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.

Young returned to rugby union and Cardiff in 1996, after rugby union became professional. He won a further 37 caps for Wales, reaching a total of 51, then a record number for a prop. He was selected for a further two British & Irish Lions tours – South Africa in 1997 and Australia in 2001. He is the only player to have toured with the Lions in three separate decades.