How to become a professional rugby player?

Question

I live in the south of England and want to play professional rugby. I currently represent my local rugby club at U16's.

Last season i played Blindside Flanker. I am 6ft 1ins and weigh in at 13st 6lb. I can run the 100m in 12.6secs and am a good endurance athelete winning my schools cross county and coming 25th in the vale championships.

I went to county trials but i struggled to perform my best on three occasions and i feel it is too late to get into professional rugby.

How can i achieve my goal to become a professional rugby player?

Answer 1

definately train hard. so long as you want it you can acheive it, in my opinion it is up to you what u can and cannot acheive. i went to the same school as all black and crusaders winger scott hamilton and he couldnt even make the schools 1st 15 and 2nd 15 and look where he ended up a few years down the track. he would have trained hard and worked on his weaknesses. follow ur role model analyse what he does well and mimic. someone ur size speed and fitness is a great mix to have, u need to find someone in ur position and copy. remember u need to have everything that the other person opposite you does not, make more tackles, miss less, make less mistakes, andhave a great workload. richie mccaw is a great player cos he is everywhere doin as much as possible. he hardly makes mistakes and does better than his opposite. be that player, its all great wanting and thinking about being that player but it all comes down to what you do on the field. a good way is to get stats on each of your games only then can u evaluate whether u are improving or not. always set goals for urself, long and short term, realistic though. always get feedback from ur coaches and try and get video footage of urself playing so u can analyse urself cos only then can u really see what ur doing right and wrong and then start improving from there.

its great that u have that ambition, playing for ur country is a great honour and something worth working hard for. remember great succes only comes with great sacrifice.

Best of Luck and hope u make it and when you do ill be waiting eagerly for one of ur pro jerseys in the mail lol

NZ P-Cent

Answer 2

Keep training and working hard. Keep going to trials, goodluck!

Answer 3

As P-Cent says, work hard at it and you'll get there if that's what you want. Similar to the Scott Hamilton story, my son played with a bloke named Luke Bailey. He couldn't get a run in the junior rep teams. He stuck at it and went on to play first grade with St george Illawarra, State of Origin, Australia and now Gold Coast. Different code I know, but same moral if you really want to do it and you work for it, it will come. All the best.