Given the distance and the time it took him to reach Billesley Common, Chris Bishay’s Moseley debut was pretty impressive.

The 23-year-old was fazed neither by his first competitive professional outing for nearly two years, nor by the fact he was nearly late for his big comeback.

Bishay’s journey from West London, one he will make three times a week as he seeks to rebuild a career that was shunted into the sidings when he was released by London Wasps in May 2009, was delayed by 80 minutes as the Gods of the Iron Way had their bit of fun.

As a result, the winger was forced to scamper down the rutted Billesley Common drive – air hostess-style suitcase in tow – just 30 minutes before Moseley’s British & Irish Cup match with Neath was due to kick off.

Not that you’d have noticed. The silkily-skilled threequarter didn’t see much by way of space and ball but during his peppering with high kicks and on the odd occasion he was given an inch of room, he looked a decent acquisition.

There were no tries but there were no glaring errors either and Bishay’s addition has clearly improved Moseley’s squad in terms of composure and motivation if nothing else.

“I wasn’t happy sitting there during the delay but I am quite relaxed anyway so I just watched TV on my laptop – there was nothing I could do,” Bishay said.

“I spoke to [Kevin Maggs] Maggsy and one of the lads picked me up from Birmingham New Street. I had two minutes to be ready and get out there, the lads waited for me to arrive before going out and warming up – that was nice.”

But reconstructing a career that promised much will be something only he can do. Bishay was at Wasps for three years and trained with the England Sevens, the future was bright.

However, being allowed to leave Adams Park hit him hard.

 “I got a bit disillusioned and down,” he admitted.

“When you don’t get your contract renewed you feel that everything is caving in because that’s all you know.

"You feel like your whole world has come in when someone doesn’t want you. It’s taken a while but hopefully I am on the right track now.

“I was playing at Staines, my local club, but I had to get a job. I live on my own, have a little boy and have bills to pay so I can’t be just living off rugby money so I had to work Saturdays and there just wasn’t the time to play at the weekend.

"I work at Sky now, I work every day I am not here.

“They have been really good and flexible. They know that coming here is good for me and that I would like to get back to the level I was.”

And Moseley would like that too.