For Olly Cracknell, it seems like it happened to somebody else.
Rewind five years and there he was, in Wales’ Six Nations squad at the age of 22, propelled into the set-up by big-hitting performances that might have been signed off by the Amalgamated Society of Uncompromising Rugby Defenders.
A future with caps seemed on the cards for the Yorkshire-born kid with a grandfather from Llanelli.
