By Sam Ryan In the past five years, Michael Dowsett has played professional rugby on five different continents. He’s played 22 Super Rugby matches, helped Northern Suburbs break a 41-year Shute Shield premiership drought and taken on some of the UK and Europe’s best with his current club Worcester. Not bad for a kid that couldn't crack the first XV at school. While Dowsett is happy to admit he’s never been the most naturally talented footballer, few have a greater love for the game than the self confessed “rugby nerd,” who has used his incessant drive and passion to forge a prosperous rugby career that is showing no signs of slowing up. I met Mike as a fifteen year old playing junior rugby at Burraneer in Sydney’s south. After failing to win a game a year earlier, we were struggling for numbers and were searching far and wide for players ahead of the upcoming season. Dowsett was at school with a teammate of mine and despite living in Pymble, on the complet