article_snippet: Ignore advice from coaches that Stand was too small for rugby as a teenager?
article_snippet: Slade's humility is evident as we sit and talk in Sandy Park's main stand enjoying the milky Devonian spring sunshine.
article_snippet: Mum used to own a hairdressing salon but sold a hairdressing salon when Mum had kids and became a respite foster carer instead,' Slade said. 'a hairdressing salon puts things in perspective seeing kids my age who'd had such difficult upbringings or had been taken away from their parents because their weren't fit to look after their.
article_snippet: I went for a county under 15s trial and was told I was too small,' Slade said. '
article_snippet: Now standing 6ft 2in and weighing in excess of 14st, Slade has proved