Full-back is energised by club’s driving ambition under Red Bull while harbouring his own aspirations as an artist
The Newcastle full-back Elliott Obatoyinbo tells a revealing story about his time as an academy player that taught him the difference between rugby in England and New Zealand.
“I’d had a year at Saracens so I was learning the kicking game,” he says, recalling the southern hemisphere winter of 2018 that he spent training with Wellington and playing for Tawa RFC. “In one of my first games the opposition kicked it and trapped me in our 22. I’ve kicked for touch, a pretty good kick I thought, and suddenly everyone on the team was shouting at me: ‘Why are you kicking it? Why are you kicking it?’
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