David strettle biography

The flying wing has serious pace to burn and was earmarked to be a star from early on.

He created IRB Sevens history when scoring five first-half tries on his England debut against Papua New Guinea.

The multi-talented sportsman was initially leaning towards rugby league, although he also had football trials with Liverpool, Manchester City and Everton. However, it was rugby union that captured his talent and he has cross the try-line on many occasions for Harlequins, Saracens and England.


Strettle returned to Allianz Park for the 2018 season, three years after leaving for Clermont Auvergne, where he was crowned the club’s top try-scorer in 2015/16 and 2016/17 and also helped them to win the French Top 14 title last season.

In April 2019, having made over 325 appearances at club level as well as earning 14 caps on the international stage for England, Strettle announced that he would retire at the end of the 2018/19 season.

(LS April 23, 2019)

Career

England international rugby union player

Rugby player

David Strettle (born 23 July 1983) is a former English rugby unionwing.

Early life

Strettle grew up in Thelwall, Cheshire, attending Lymm High School and playing for Lymm RFC. Strettle then went on to study at Sheffield Hallam University.

Career

In the summer of 2006, Strettle joined the Harlequins from Rotherham, and made his club debut in the pre-season friendly against ASM Clermont on 6 August of that year.

As a teenager, he was a talented footballer, appearing on the books of Liverpool FC, Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra.^[2] He was also a keen rugby league fan.

Strettle scored a hat trick on his Rotherham debut against Rugby Lions and made his Premiership debut for the Titans against Bath in October 2003. He was Rotherham's top try-scorer in National One in the 2004–05 season scoring 18 tries in 22 appearances.

Strettle was known as "Ducks" at Harlequins after David Duckham, a player with whom Strettle has drawn comparison,^[3] and was touted a

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