5 current Lions stars who've got strange nicknames - and why

In England camp he shares a room with brother Billy. But when the No.8 is out injured teammates can find sharing with the loosehead something of an experience given his liking for sleeping. Hence Snorlax after the hulking Pokémon with narcolepsy.

The England star got his nickname after turned up at his first Wasps training session in his Whitgift school uniform and carrying you know what!

The Scottish playmaker nickname amongst his team mates at Glasgow is "Ah-ha-li Price" in reference to another famous Norfolk resident, Alan Partridge.

The Irish tight-head says of his nickname: "My belly gets a good flash on national television.

"It came up in the video review, Joe Schmidt said "Oh, here comes WWF...", not even WWE so, WWF, we're going back a few years. And of course the lads jumped on the bandwagon and started calling me Rikishi, the big fat wrestler!"

Given his nickname by former Ireland lock Donncha O'Callaghan after first clasping eyes on the bearded Ulsterman at a training camp tucking into a bowl of cereal at breakfast.