Hill: Setbacks have made me stronger

AT the age of 25, Ted Hill has had enough knock backs to last a career but he believes the reverses have prepared him for his re-emergence on the Test stage.

- By ADAM HATHAWAY

The Bath flanker, who can also do a shift at lock, was forced to move clubs when his boyhood side, Worcester, collapsed amid financial mismanagement back in 2022.

Throw in the fact that Hill has had two long spells of international exile, from his debut in 2018 to his second cap in 2021 and from then until last Saturday when he came off the bench at the death in the 16-15 Calcutta Cup win.

Hill, Ollie Lawrence and Fin Smith, plus Scotland’s Duhan van der Merwe, were former Warriors players involved in that game that kept England in the Six Nations hunt.

And Hill insists the hardship endured by them during the demise of his beloved Worcester has prepared them for anything the game can chuck at them.