Tom Biggs

Who is Tom Biggs?

Tom Biggs is a rugby union footballer for Bath RFC. In October 2013 Biggs signed a three-year contract with the rugby league squad Hull F.C. and will switch codes no later than the end of the 2013-14 English Premiership season. His usual position is at wing. Biggs has featured in the Zurich Premiership, Powergen Cup and European Cup.

Biggs had not played any club rugby before joining the Yorkshire U18s, having only played with his school team at Hymers College. Biggs was spotted by the then Tykes Academy boss Stuart Lancaster and was asked to join the Tykes' Academy side.

Before the 2004–05 Zurich Premiership season, Biggs was considering a part-time rugby career with National Division Two team Harrogate Rugby Union Football Club, having failed to make an appearance in the Leeds Tykes first team. At the time, he was working in a cinema and in a pea factory to supplement his life as a business student at Leeds Metropolitan University, but by the end of the season he had collected a Powergen Cup winners medal.

He had been recalled by Tykes coach Phil Davies on the eve of the season as the club were forced to call on all their resources when faced with an injury crisis with Phil Christophers, Diego Albanese, Tim Stimpson and Iain Balshaw all unable to play. Biggs was included in the pre-season warm up games and was picked in the starting line up for the opening game of the season against Gloucester RFC on 5 September 2004, making his full debut in a 16–21 defeat at Headingley.