Bristol Bears hooker Tom Lindsay is to retire from rugby union on the tip of his contract with the Premiership club after a 16-year educated profession.
The 32-year-dilapidated joined Bristol from Bedford in the summertime of 2018.
After leaving Saracens’ academy, Lindsay performed 129 occasions for Wasps sooner than joining Gloucester in 2015.
The aged England Saxons forward performed three occasions in the Premiership for Bristol, who had been third in the desk when the season became suspended.
“We congratulate Tom on his profession – he established himself as a Premiership performer from a younger age and we had been all impressed by the impression he had at Bedford too, which became why I introduced him to Bristol,” Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam suggested the club net page.
Lindsay, who has frolicked coaching Bristol’s ladies’s personnel, added: “It feels love the most though-provoking time for me to step a long way from taking half in professionally and pursue my ambitions to pass into coaching.
“I’ve totally loved working with Bears Girls and optimistically that can proceed, whereas I’m additionally exploring other alternatives too.
“It has been a privilege to suggest Wasps, Gloucester, Bedford and Bristol accurate thru my profession and I’m grateful to my personnel-mates, the personnel and the supporters who occupy made it this kind of different trip accurate thru.”