CHRIS Green says he still can't believe his remarkable return to rugby has ended in signing a two-year professional deal with Hull FC.

A year ago, former Wolfreton School pupil Green was not even playing the sport.

The 20-year-old had hung up his boots to concentrate on his career outside the sport.

"I lost interest in playing. It was a number of factors really, but I felt I wasn't really getting anywhere," explains Green.

"There were a lot of other things that I wanted to do and something had to give, so it was the rugby.

"I didn't feel at the time there was a career in the game for me.

"I was at Hull when I was 15 and 16 but I was never anything special and I guess it is only recently that I've matured."

His scholarship at Hull had fizzled out, but Green continued to play for Cottingham Tigers, where he had been since taking up the game at the age of seven.

Then came the end, or so he thought.

Making his grand retirement at the age of 17, Green put his focus into his successful job as the leisure supervisor at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Willerby.

"I was happy not playing, or I thought I was.

"My brother had started playing at college and I think hearing him talking about it may have started something again," added Green.

Within weeks he was playing at Skirlaugh and then found himself at Hull FC.

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