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backawaygoonahead wrote:Amusingly it appears we were all crap :lol:
No arguments from me on that one.
HwoodMike2umate wrote:It was horrible but i did somehow escape any long term serious injuries - usually by slipping well short of any actual action.
Only ever had one "proper" injury at rugby (you ignore all the cuts, bumps, scrapes & bruises - they're taken as read), and that was the only time I ever played front row. Turned up for a match and our hooker didn't show. The question was asked "who can play hooker?" (Before the days of supposed specialised training for front rowers). No one answered, but then someone pointed out that my brother used to play hooker (badly), so it was obvious that I would "know" how to play. I played about 50 minutes (I think) without once striking for the ball - I didn't know I had to, as our pack just pushed over the opposition - before a bad collapse had me screaming in agony and I was carried off with a nasty neck injury. Thankfully not as nasty as it might have been, but I still attribute some of the neck problems I have decades later to that moment. I came back a couple of months later and played for a couple more years, but never went near the front row again.

At the football, however, I broke several bones (my own), had more than enough stitches and tore plenty of muscles, cartilages, ligaments that I had a regular booking for a cubicle on saturday afternoons at RVH casualty. Still loved it though.
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The older I get, the better I was!!!
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Setanta wrote:The older I get, the better I was!!!
If only that were so, for me, but alas there are enough around norn iron (and almost certainly on this forum) who know the truth about my limited abilities.
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Setanta wrote:The older I get, the better I was!!!

the drunker I get the better I was,especially back when I played :lol:
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Played Hooker at school in the early years, then took the game up again at uni and played flanker for Guys Hospital in London, apparently the oldest rugby club in the world.
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Shorts 3's & 2's mostly and occasionally the 1's.

Debuted at age 28 and retired at 44...started on the wing then back-row,played all positions except front row and ended up at 10.

Crap for sure...but 100%...loved every minute.
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Well unlike you bunch of losers, I was a feckin genius on the paddock! Most of the illustrious career was 13, (various spells on the wing & at full back), but the fatter I got the lower number became, 12, then 10 & finally 6 for the "oldies" team. Wrapped the whole thing when someone suggested that I try the front row :oops: .

To be honest I was pretty useless everywhere, but did manage to play competitively in 70s, 80s & 90s, last proper match was at Ellis Park in warm up match before a Currie Cup match. Disappointingly they had me down in the program as being from Cooke :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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For the avoidance of any doubt i wish to make it clear that even at my ripe old age of 54 i am still a better conversion kicker than junior aged 23 who did rise to the heights of occasionally doing cameo roles on Sullivan 2nd XV although fitness and playing wise he probably peaked at Medallion level and its really been all downhill since. I can also still beat him at tennis and golf but will admit that he is a faster runner & swimmer.
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote: School days only - .................................Gamesmanship or cheating? Certainly the latter, but it's what we were coached to do and not something I'm proud of now. Did it help to win matches? Of course it did.
At school? Coached ? :shock: :shock: :shock: You must be just a child, what year was this? :shock:

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total rugby.
with a number between 4-8 on my back.

however i will on a several times per game basis join into a back line, and have been known to stand at first-five and send a long kick downfield.
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Always at No 7 and yes nailing that scrawny scrum have would have been fun if i could ever catch the wee runt
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browner wrote: Debuted at age 28 and retired at 44...started on the wing then back-row,played all positions except front row and ended up at 10.

Crap for sure...but 100%...loved every minute.
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backawaygoonahead wrote:
Cap'n Grumpy wrote: School days only - .................................Gamesmanship or cheating? Certainly the latter, but it's what we were coached to do and not something I'm proud of now. Did it help to win matches? Of course it did.
At school? Coached ? :shock: :shock: :shock: You must be just a child, what year was this? :shock:
Old enough to be going senile, so I can't remember date of that precise "tactic" exactly, but it would have been early/mid 70s.
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:
backawaygoonahead wrote:
Cap'n Grumpy wrote: School days only - .................................Gamesmanship or cheating? Certainly the latter, but it's what we were coached to do and not something I'm proud of now. Did it help to win matches? Of course it did.
At school? Coached ? :shock: :shock: :shock: You must be just a child, what year was this? :shock:
Old enough to be going senile, so I can't remember date of that precise "tactic" exactly, but it would have been early/mid 70s.
I would have been a mid 60s to early 70s boy at school, I exaggerate of course but by todays standards I suspect it wouldn't have been recognised as coaching. By the way I had 2 Physics Teachers both of them International refs in successive school years.

Must be some sort of World Record - must give Norris & Ross McWhirter a bell on Monday. Ooopps, slipsies - forgot they are both Tatety Bread.

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WhiteKnightoftheWeld wrote: however i will on a several times per game basis join into a back line, and have been known to stand at first-five and send a long kick downfield.
I sent a kick downfield once and got fined because "forwards shouldn't kick". I played prop all the way through age grade rugby (preferably at LH), then grew about 6" so started playing lock. Still play most weekends for Waterloo's 3rd XV, being careful not to go training or play too well for fear of getting picked from the seconds.
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