In Maisie's words
I had a full-time job until
I was twenty-five. Most of us did.
I worked in a physiotherapy practice four days a week and played Premiership rugby at the weekend. That was normal, and for a lot of the league it still is. The professionalism arrived faster than the money did.
What that means practically is that I have a shorter runway than people assume and a second career I need to be building now rather than later. I already coach — juniors on a Saturday morning, some one-to-one work with back-rowers, the occasional school. Until this site existed, the only way to book me was to know someone who knew me.
The women's game is growing faster than the infrastructure around it. There are more people wanting to work with players than there are players set up to be worked with. That gap is the whole reason I bothered with this.
Everything on this page is mine. If I move club, or the England door closes, or I do my knee again, I keep the list and the customers and the coaching business. That felt worth £399 a month.
Written from a recorded interview, edited by a human, signed off by Maisie. It sounds like Maisie because it is Maisie.