When revealing what he had planned to mark his retirement as a Bath player, the club’s legendary prop Gareth Chilcott declared: “I thought I would have a quiet pint…followed by about 17 noisy ones.”
It isn’t known if Nic Cudd went down the same road after he called time on his playing career on Sunday, but there are plenty out there who would be prepared to toast the 33-year-old former Dragon after his exit from the rugby-playing scene.
His final game came for Carmarthen Quins against Newport. A warrior of a player, there was no going gently into that good night for Cudd. “He was awesome,” reported Quins’ team manager Steffan Thomas of his last performance on a rugby pitch. “But then he always is.”
