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#Post#: 88898--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: poorfour
Date: April 19, 2022, 4:20 pm
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--- Quote from: Bolly-Quin link ---
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> Does the "four" in your name refer to No 4/lock during your
playing career? - Just wondering...
>
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Yes, although you're only the second person ever to comment on
it. As an 11 year old playing rugby for the first time I was
5'10" and fast enough to be on the relay team. I had two very
enjoyable seasons of playing No 8 and haring round the field
smashing into people. Then I grew a bit taller and every
subsequent coach and team could only see me as a lock. Being a
schoolboy lock in the '80s was dull as *&$@ unless you had a
progressive coach and a switched on No 8 ; I spent the rest of
my rugby career trundling between the bottom of the ruck and the
middle of the scrum, got bored, picked up a couple of minor
injuries and drifted out of the game.
I wish someone had encouraged me to keep playing, but no-one did
so I took up gridiron instead. I didn't come back to the game
until my wife and I started supporting Quins in the early 2000s.
Then our kids started playing in the early 2010s, I started
coaching and reffing them and working hard on my knowledge of
the game to keep up.
#Post#: 88932--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: MadMax
Date: April 20, 2022, 9:14 am
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--- Quote from: poorfour link ---
>
> Yes, although you're only the second person ever to comment on
it. As an 11 year old playing rugby for the first time I was
5'10" and fast enough to be on the relay team. I had two very
enjoyable seasons of playing No 8 and haring round the field
smashing into people. Then I grew a bit taller and every
subsequent coach and team could only see me as a lock. Being a
schoolboy lock in the '80s was dull as *&$@ unless you had a
progressive coach and a switched on No 8 ; I spent the rest of
my rugby career trundling between the bottom of the ruck and the
middle of the scrum, got bored, picked up a couple of minor
injuries and drifted out of the game.
>
> I wish someone had encouraged me to keep playing, but no-one
did so I took up gridiron instead. I didn't come back to the
game until my wife and I started supporting Quins in the early
2000s. Then our kids started playing in the early 2010s, I
started coaching and reffing them and working hard on my
knowledge of the game to keep up.
>
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All very interesting but the big question is does the "poor" in
your name refer to the state your wife has left you in?
#Post#: 88947--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: April 20, 2022, 2:05 pm
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As I read it poorfour actually wanted to be greateight but his
coaches pushed him in to playing in the second row.
#Post#: 88962--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: Quinky
Date: April 21, 2022, 5:49 am
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--- Quote from: poorfour link ---
>
> Yes, although you're only the second person ever to comment on
it. As an 11 year old playing rugby for the first time I was
5'10" and fast enough to be on the relay team. I had two very
enjoyable seasons of playing No 8 and haring round the field
smashing into people. Then I grew a bit taller and every
subsequent coach and team could only see me as a lock. Being a
schoolboy lock in the '80s was dull as *&$@ unless you had a
progressive coach and a switched on No 8 ; I spent the rest of
my rugby career trundling between the bottom of the ruck and the
middle of the scrum, got bored, picked up a couple of minor
injuries and drifted out of the game.
>
> I wish someone had encouraged me to keep playing, but no-one
did so I took up gridiron instead. I didn't come back to the
game until my wife and I started supporting Quins in the early
2000s. Then our kids started playing in the early 2010s, I
started coaching and reffing them and working hard on my
knowledge of the game to keep up.
>
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My first game was at prop, then most of my junior career was at
lock, with occasional back row forays. Senior rugby - I'd
stopped growing upwards, and started at fullback, before
switching (mostly) to fly half - and at some point playing every
position from 9 to 15. Being 6 foot 1 and 15 stone at the time
was big for a 10, but these days I'd probably be considered
small! But I concur that olden days locks had less fun; plenty
of workhorse stuff and a few scums falling on top of us.
#Post#: 88981--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: April 21, 2022, 3:23 pm
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None of this has anything to do with Premiership Ins and Outs,
so we should probably try not to derail the bread any further,
but … I really wish I’d known I wasn’t going to grow any more
from about 15 onwards. In the space of a couple of years, I went
from being average/slightly bigger than average to relatively
small. It basically meant that I was always a forward in a scrum
half’s body.
#Post#: 88985--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: Quinky
Date: April 21, 2022, 11:37 pm
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--- Quote from: Quinston Churchill link ---
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> None of this has anything to do with Premiership Ins and Outs,
so we should probably try not to derail the bread any further,
but … I really wish I’d known I wasn’t going to grow any more
from about 15 onwards. In the space of a couple of years, I went
from being average/slightly bigger than average to relatively
small. It basically meant that I was always a forward in a scrum
half’s body.
>
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Is that you, Wev?
#Post#: 88986--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: April 22, 2022, 2:06 am
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I wish :D
#Post#: 88989--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: A222Quin
Date: April 22, 2022, 3:51 am
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--- Quote from: Quinston Churchill link ---
>
> None of this has anything to do with Premiership Ins and Outs,
so we should probably try not to derail the bread any further,
but … I really wish I’d known I wasn’t going to grow any more
from about 15 onwards. In the space of a couple of years, I went
from being average/slightly bigger than average to relatively
small. It basically meant that I was always a forward in a scrum
half’s body.
>
--- End Quote ---
Same as me!
#Post#: 88991--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: Captquin
Date: April 22, 2022, 4:46 am
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Bristol's exciting inside centre Frisch going to Munster.
It is a shame it does seem the quality of talent across the Prem
is definitely declining for next season...
#Post#: 89741--------------------------------------------------
Re: Ins and Outs across the Prem
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: May 3, 2022, 4:23 am
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Is there a URC Salary Cap?
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