I don’t think we’re the bookies’ favourites but who cares. It’s quite an organic thing that gets created over time,” said Williams, shedding insight on the mechanics of an enviable inner sanctum that has Exeter nine points clear despite Sunday’s surprise home loss to Wasps.“He [Baxter] has just allowed that process to occur without any regulation. He insists, however, this was not what attracted him to the Great British Bake-Off which, somewhat bizarrely, led to him becoming a popular figure on social media last year for his tart tweets about Candice’s showstoppers.As an unashamed fan he is putting a brave face on the show’s move to Channel 4. I have Twitter but I don’t really (engage). Part 1 airs 6pm, Sunday 14th April, exclusively on RugbyPass.There were five seasons settling in, Rob Baxter’s outfit gradually finding their feet at elite level. Harry Williams couldn’t quite believe the fall-out from Exeter’s win at “If people said something to a player and their family, those people just need to sort themselves out,” said Williams to Williams knows from past experience. “Last year we were very excited; there was a little bit of shock and awe.
The powerful Williams is a rare breed: a big man who does not conform to some people’s stereotypical views of prop forwards.
It was all laid on for us and I enjoyed it. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. The England scrum coach, Neal Hatley, will also be present and, beneath the quirky humour, Williams is ambitious enough to feel he could cope at Test level.“I do believe that. That’s all I’ll need to know. By … Harry Williams: ‘When I finished school I was probably 110kg. We understand the task ahead and I feel like we just want to ramp up, use every game as a springboard, an opportunity to go on to another level.“The aim with Exeter is to win the Premiership and then to get selected for the World Cup would be a dream come true, it would be quite surreal. A lot don’t have the crowd, the funding or the backing, they can’t make a fist of it. Harry Williams (born 1 October 1991) is an English rugby union player for Premiership Rugby side Exeter Chiefs.
To say in inverted commas you spend time developing a culture, I don’t think you can develop a culture.
Having been losing finalists last year, there is sense of purpose. And also the core of the squad are Devon and Cornish lads so the people who come in, you need to buy into their culture. It’s like a shared kind of happiness. It genuinely isn’t like that.If you haven't seen the full video of this, it's well worth a watch ? “It’s like when Jif changed to Cif. Because of that you want to play well for the team year on year. In June 2017, Lambeth-born Harry had been chosen for his first England tour to Argentina, having already played for the national students’ side. I wasn’t particularly big or particularly good when I was young. It does dull your brain a little bit if you’re not reading all the time, your mind’s not being active.“I just thought it would be good to pick something up. But the reason why I’m learning is just when I finished university I stopped any kind of learning or anything like that. “On a day off, right now I’m trying to learn a little French, to keep the mind activated and stimulated. The burgeoning career of Harry Williams has been shaped by Wasps, Loughborough University, Nottingham and more recently Jersey and Exeter Chiefs, who recruited him in the 2015/16 season. It’s the law of attraction: you have to believe in something for it to happen. There isn’t people moaning or sapping the entire time and (going) ’I want to leave’. They have been there so long, so you definitely get that feeling of the players who have been before and created it but you’re still adding to it.“I also think we have quite a young team so we’re not hampered by our past, we’re not trying to push on to do stuff we have done before because everything we’re doing is pretty new for us. The 6ft 3in Williams was once in the Wasps academy but has not always been the scrummaging colossus he is now. Look at the Premiership now, there’s like so many teams that aren’t safe and there are teams that have come through. When you get older you thicken out a bit, don’t you?”Prior to his stints with Loughborough Students, Nottingham and Jersey, he also spent seven months living and playing in north Auckland where he lived above a gym and had a job cleaning a bakery. I didn’t get big until I was almost 20 and started training at Loughborough. History may now be about to repeat itself.
Be the first to get all the latest news, updates and offers from Scarlets I’m glad I ended up in the same place as the lads but I feel I’d more fun doing it.”There’s no sign of that fun stopping either. I’m thinking: ‘Why not?’” He also yearns to travel one day but will be heading to South America this summer strictly on business. Old rugby clubs. He had never visited the West Country before Baxter, always fishing for motivated Championship talent, phoned to invite him down to Sandy Park. I really want to go and have a good crack at it.”First and foremost, though, Exeter have a Premiership semi-final home draw to earn. I have never done anything like that before.