Minchella completes journey from the building site to England Test rugby
Road to international status has not been easy but Hull KR star hopes England debut on Saturday is βnot the pinnacleβ
It is only a few years since Elliot Minchella would discuss the fortunes of the England rugby league side with the people he worked with on a building site in West Yorkshire. This weekend, however, those former colleagues will watch him fulfil a childhood dream after taking an unconventional route to the Test arena.
While so many of the men who will line up alongside Minchella in Toulouse on Saturday evening have had a straightforward journey to England honours, the 28-year-oldβs story wasnβt quite the same. He made a try-scoring debut for Leeds Rhinos as a 17-year-old but an off-field incident saw his initial progress stutter, before eventually being let go by the Super League club.
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