Fan's View: James Simpson-Daniel is the greatest Gloucester...
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James Simpson-Daniel will go down as the greatest Gloucester player of his generation.
Blessed with quick feet and an even quicker mind, he personified the club’s free-flowing new approach to the game in the early 2000s, and continued to bamboozle defences until his career’s end.
It was at Kingsholm in 2001 when the young ‘Sinbad’ first brought the Cherry and White crowd to raptures, as he scorched 60 metres for a debut try against Rotherham – the first of his 118 in 272 competitive games.
Rarely does a Gloucester player gain instant affection, but who could resist the young man with fire …
Blessed with quick feet and an even quicker mind, he personified the club’s free-flowing new approach to the game in the early 2000s, and continued to bamboozle defences until his career’s end.
It was at Kingsholm in 2001 when the young ‘Sinbad’ first brought the Cherry and White crowd to raptures, as he scorched 60 metres for a debut try against Rotherham – the first of his 118 in 272 competitive games.
Rarely does a Gloucester player gain instant affection, but who could resist the young man with fire …
