where did you play?

[fermain]

Having listened to the anlaysis by the masses on here, I wondered... Have any of these guys really pleayed rugby?
What position?
me, hooker! and godammit I loved it!

[Jackie Brown]

Having listened to the anlaysis by the masses on here, I wondered... Have any of these guys really pleayed rugby?
What position?
me, hooker! and godammit I loved it!

I started as a 6 and moved to Hooker. I was never any good though.

[cables]

Poor LHP for me.

Can't say if I was better/worse than JB as I don't believe it is even remotely possible that I scrummaged against him.

[pwrmoore]

centre/wing - but not really fast enough

[BR]

Second row - social rugby only.

Bit of back row at school, back in the days when you could break off and nail the scrum-half ... ahhh ... happy days

[ColinM]

Started off in the back row due to size, moved to back three due to pace, and eventually moved back to back row due to increasing size and decreasing pace

[Rooster]

Fullback then had to retire at 14, not position but age

[darkside lightside]

I played on the wing, as far away from the nasty fat guys as possible!

[HwoodMike2umate]

I recall lurking/hiding/feigning injury somewhere in the backs (deeming the wing a bit risky as you were after all usually the last chap with the ball in his hand) on the team of wasters & skivvers that were reluctantly assembled (our regular prayers for heavy rain usually failing to come to anything) to give the 5th XV their practice games. It was horrible but i did somehow escape any long term serious injuries - usually by slipping well short of any actual action.

For the avoidance of any doubt i should add that apart from the rugby my general experiences of life @ Campbell College seemed to be slightly less fraught than many other folk who have graced it's hallowed walls with their presence.

[backawaygoonahead]

Mainly full-back, often centre, a few times wing which given my pedestrian pace was a joke. Occasional scrum half & an emergency wing forward & hooker once.

Preferred full-back but having played in the pre-gum shield era I reckon I lost more teeth than any forward having been convinced by a teacher & former international ref that "a wee man like you like you needs to take them low."

Amusingly it appears we were all crap

[bootlaced]

from the school of coarse rugby,played tighthead,and the odd game at hooker,even played wing once ha ha,played in England and Wales as well

[Snipe Watson]

Flanker at junior school, centre for the rest. Finished at 23 with back and neck injuries.

[mikerob]

Another crap player - scrum half for a variety of lower down the club XVs in Ireland, England, Scotland and Australia. I wasn't even good at being annoying and obnoxious like any decent scrum half should be.

[Cap'n Grumpy]

Bit of back row at school, back in the days when you could break off and nail the scrum-half ... ahhh ... happy days

School days only - started off at 9 or 11/14 but finished off at (what was known then as) wing-forward. Switched to the round ball game at weekends when around 16/17.

Nothing special at any position, but when playing flanker, such was the level that if you nailed the oppo 9 and got penalised, it was never kicked. Used to nail him a number of times at the start of the match even if the ball didn't come back on his side and it sure made him one nervous bunny so that when it did come back on his side he would start looking for the challenge and probably knock-on - result - scrum reversed, our put in. After the first 5 minutes, you could leave him be and still get the same result. (If he got his confidence back, you just did it a few more times later on to remind him).

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.

[pwrmoore]

Another crap player - scrum half for a variety of lower down the club XVs in Ireland, England, Scotland and Australia. I wasn't even good at being annoying and obnoxious like any decent scrum half should be.

That's skill you've only developed recently then!!!!