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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: BYTORtheSn0wd0g
Date: February 1, 2018, 12:43 pm
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Brad - My sympathies. Cancer has claimed many close to me as
well. I am sure all of us has experienced this at some level.
Just know I feel for you.. :sad:
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: guest629
Date: February 1, 2018, 3:12 pm
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Thanks Bytor.....crushes the soul sometimes to see my rugby team
mates and friends dying before their time, but that is game we
now are playing.....survival.
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: CamDaddy222
Date: February 1, 2018, 3:37 pm
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Very sorry for your loss Brad.
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: Corbantis
Date: February 1, 2018, 3:50 pm
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Condolences Brad.
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: ReverendBeast
Date: February 2, 2018, 8:09 am
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Condolences Brad.
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: Maddog STS
Date: February 2, 2018, 8:53 pm
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Heart-felt condolences, my friend.
As long as you have the memories, he'll always be with you
:grin:
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: MickeysGrenade
Date: February 4, 2018, 4:44 pm
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Sorry to hear Brad
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: Knight of Annwn
Date: February 7, 2018, 2:49 pm
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Old Rugby players never die, they are drafted into a higher
league.. condolences Brad
A Poem for Rugby Players... sorry this is so long but if you
have played, every word is true :cheers:
When the battle scars have faded, and the truth becomes a lie
And the weekend smell of liniment could almost make you cry.
When the last ruck’s well behind you, and the man that ran now
walks
It doesn’t matter who you are, the mirror sometimes talks.
Have a good hard look old son! The melons not that great
The snoz that takes a sharp turn sideways, used to be dead
straight.
You’re an advert for arthritis, you’re a thoroughbred gone lame
Then you ask yourself the question, why the hell you played the
game?
Was there logic in the head knocks? In the corks and in the
cuts?
Did common sense get pushed aside? By manliness and guts?
Do you sometimes sit and wonder, why your time would often pass
In a tangled mess of bodies, with your head up someone’s arse?
With a thumb hooked up your nostril, scratching gently on your
brain
And an overgrown Neanderthal, rejoicing in your pain!
Mate – you must recall the jersey, that was shredded into rags
Then the soothing sting of Dettol, on a back engraved with tags!
It’s almost worth admitting, though with some degree of shame
That your wife was right in asking, why the hell you played the
game?
Why you’d always rock home legless, like a cow on roller skates
After drinking at the clubhouse, with your low down drunken
mates.
Then you’d wake up – check your wallet, not a solitary coin
Drink Berocca by the bucket, throw an ice pack on your groin.
Copping Sunday morning sermons, about boozers being losers
While you limped like Quasimodo, with a half a thousand bruises!
Yes – an urge to hug the porcelain, and curse Sambuca’s name
Would always pose the question, why the hell you played the
game!
And yet with every wound re-opened, as you grimly reminisce it
Comes the most compelling feeling yet, god, you bloody miss it!
From the first time that you laced a boot, and tightened every
stud
That virus known as rugby, has been living in your blood.
When you dreamt it when you played it, all the rest took second
fiddle
Now you’re standing on the sideline, but your heart’s still in
the middle.
And no matter where you travel, you can take it as expected
There will always be a breed of people, hopelessly infected.
If there’s a teammate, then you’ll find him, like a gravitating
force
With a common understanding, and a beer or three, of course.
And as you stand there telling lies, like it was yesterday old
friend
You’ll know that if you had the chance, you’d do it all again.
You see – that’s the thing with rugby, it will always be the
same
And that, I guarantee, is why the hell you played the game!
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Re: In memorium.....again
DIR By: guest629
Date: February 7, 2018, 3:48 pm
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Thanks Knight, true words indeed. I can list the busted up
pieces and parts I have but it doesn't really matter - what
matters is what you remember while playing and hangin' with your
best friends both on and off the field - and that I will always
have!
Well, until the dementia kicks in!!
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