Dave Attwood: ‘If you’d asked me if I was going to Toulon I’d have laughed in your face’

The Bath second-row has been emotionally drained by a knee injury but hopes his loan move to France will provide a new lease of lifeDave Attwood felt like a fraud. He has given nearly seven years of service to Bath and is aware he was not thinking rationally, but day-to-day involvement without the release at weekends – and a series of aborted comebacks – left him emotionally exhausted by his chronic knee injury.“You feel like you’ve got a real lack of purpose because your job is to play rugby,” Attwood says. “It would be like if you were a data analyst and someone took away your computer.…