What position did you play?
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At 12 -25, Lock. Tallest in the team at 178cm. I'm now 42, current height. 178cm.
Flanker at 15, although my complete lack of ability started to show through
Wing at 16. My vision had started to deteriorate by this point ... struggling to see the ball.17 years old. Required eye surgery. End of the line for me on contact sport for 3 years.
19 years old.. Required eye surgery on other eye. Another 3 years out.
22 years old. Now in London. Eye failed completely. Moorfields told me that was the end of the line for me for contact sport.Cut down in my prime. Still had 8 years to prove I was Frank Bunce the second.
@MajorRage said in What position did you play?:
At 12 -25, Lock. Tallest in the team at 178cm. I'm now 42, current height. 178cm.
Flanker at 15, although my complete lack of ability started to show through
Wing at 16. My vision had started to deteriorate by this point ... struggling to see the ball.17 years old. Required eye surgery. End of the line for me on contact sport for 3 years.
19 years old.. Required eye surgery on other eye. Another 3 years out.
22 years old. Now in London. Eye failed completely. Moorfields told me that was the end of the line for me for contact sport.Cut down in my prime. Still had 8 years to prove I was Frank Bunce the second.
This rather expalins your unique 'perspective'.
Did you ever consider reffing?
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@MajorRage said in What position did you play?:
At 12 -25, Lock. Tallest in the team at 178cm. I'm now 42, current height. 178cm.
Flanker at 15, although my complete lack of ability started to show through
Wing at 16. My vision had started to deteriorate by this point ... struggling to see the ball.17 years old. Required eye surgery. End of the line for me on contact sport for 3 years.
19 years old.. Required eye surgery on other eye. Another 3 years out.
22 years old. Now in London. Eye failed completely. Moorfields told me that was the end of the line for me for contact sport.Cut down in my prime. Still had 8 years to prove I was Frank Bunce the second.
This rather expalins your unique 'perspective'.
Did you ever consider reffing?
@pakman said in What position did you play?:
This rather expalins your unique 'perspective'.
What on earth do you mean by this?
Did you ever consider reffing?
Yes. I did a couple of courses a few years back. And if I'm honest, it just wasn't for me.
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@pakman said in What position did you play?:
This rather expalins your unique 'perspective'.
What on earth do you mean by this?
Did you ever consider reffing?
Yes. I did a couple of courses a few years back. And if I'm honest, it just wasn't for me.
@MajorRage said in What position did you play?:
@pakman said in What position did you play?:
This rather expalins your unique 'perspective'.
What on earth do you mean by this?
I took it you were alluding to being one-eyed?!
Did you ever consider reffing?
Yes. I did a couple of courses a few years back. And if I'm honest, it just wasn't for me.
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@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
Unicorn RFC?
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@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
Unicorn RFC?
@MiketheSnow said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
Unicorn RFC?
Naturally. And he's going out with a virgin Essex girl.
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@MiketheSnow said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
Unicorn RFC?
Naturally. And he's going out with a virgin Essex girl.
@Catogrande said in What position did you play?:
@MiketheSnow said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
Unicorn RFC?
Naturally. And he's going out with a virgin Essex girl.
Now THAT is ridiculous!
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As a midget with a decent turn of pace, wing through my early childhood.
Hit secondary school and as a midget with a turn of pace, played wing until 15 when I spent the off season teaching myself to pass/kick off both hands/feet, then the next coach took a punt on me at fullback. Where I showed I was a running fullback.
Club rugby at first was mostly fullback, where as a skinny bones I learnt it hurt less to tackle the massive polys than pretend to tackle. When I hit prems I was mostly wing/fullback with the odd trot at centre in the reserves. Season of U85s before coming over here where I was a centre who covered blindside at a pinch.
Over to the UK and was thrust into the hard running and tackling 12/13 mainly as no-one knew how to run lines or hit hard. Would cover wing/fullback but had lost any sense of kicking skills by then.
Onto vets where half the time I would end up being an absolutely shit 10, or a mediocre centre. But man could I shout at people.
@Bones said in What position did you play?:
As a midget with a decent turn of pace, wing through my early childhood.
Hit secondary school and as a midget with a turn of pace, played wing until 15 when I spent the off season teaching myself to pass/kick off both hands/feet, then the next coach took a punt on me at fullback. Where I showed I was a running fullback.
Club rugby at first was mostly fullback, where as a skinny bones I learnt it hurt less to tackle the massive polys than pretend to tackle. When I hit prems I was mostly wing/fullback with the odd trot at centre in the reserves. Season of U85s before coming over here where I was a centre who covered blindside at a pinch.
Over to the UK and was thrust into the hard running and tackling 12/13 mainly as no-one knew how to run lines or hit hard. Would cover wing/fullback but had lost any sense of kicking skills by then.
Onto vets where half the time I would end up being an absolutely shit 10, or a mediocre centre. But man could I shout at people.
Likewise a midget early days, with very brisk first 15 yards.
At primary within school tended to be halfback or hooker (yuck!) owing to lack of size. Had a good sidestep, so for school played wing, and specialised at short side moves.
Between 14 and 16 grew 9 inches, so pretty tuckered and general dog's body.
By uni 6', and played 12 and 15 for Auck Uni under 21 2nds.
Step came in handy at former, but at 75kg the tackling wasn't always so much fun. Reading yours I do recall generally not minding tackling big polys. I'd let them have outside and come in low side on. But straight, hard running 12s with high knee lifts were the pits!
So often at 15, but lacked top end. Remember skinny Northcote winger (Terry Wright?) who scored four tries against us by hugging touchline.
Then headed overseas at 25 and never quite got into club scene.
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mostly Centre/ Wing , Fullback ,
played a lot of league growing up and was considered a guy that liked to tackle in high school rugby, and had a coach who put me in at openside for a while , enjoyed that at that level , but otherwise always a reasonably quick outside back
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@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
Hang o, you said you were a halfback. Does not compute.
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Didn’t play rugby, not sure why. Old man pushed me more into soccer which I disliked, played all over the place there.. preference was Left Right Out....
Grew up loving cricket and softball. Had a mean arm so was always a pitcher in softball and pretty handy (if I can say so myself) medium lace bowler.
We are allowed to talk about other sports here right?
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A slow centre or an even slower winger.
I could always claim I had too much panache and flair to play in the forwards even though I’m tall. In saying that I had a brief spell at 6.
I was skinny all through high school and I think the words of my Mum saying Rugby was ‘rough’ rung in my ears. I became better after bulking up, developed a knack for fending, running straight and tackling ( provided the attacker didn’t sidestep too much ) but then took a hiatus at the age of about 19 which is still going.
I coulda been considerably better had I developed way more confidence at a young age
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Didn’t play rugby, not sure why. Old man pushed me more into soccer which I disliked, played all over the place there.. preference was Left Right Out....
Grew up loving cricket and softball. Had a mean arm so was always a pitcher in softball and pretty handy (if I can say so myself) medium lace bowler.
We are allowed to talk about other sports here right?
@Virgil said in What position did you play?:
Had a mean arm
Sounds like a villain cowboy name... Mean Arm Virg'
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@Virgil said in What position did you play?:
Had a mean arm
Sounds like a villain cowboy name... Mean Arm Virg'
@R-L said in What position did you play?:
@Virgil said in What position did you play?:
Had a mean arm
Sounds like a villain cowboy name... Mean Arm Virg'
The things a teenage boy would do with his arm right..
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@Bones said in What position did you play?:
@ACT-Crusader said in What position did you play?:
Halfback.
You're right, no need to say more.
I was the non yappy, non swearing, non flap my arms halfback. Hard to believe I know.
@ACT-Crusader so you rode the bench aye
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Jeez. Long story.
In my first year of senior rugby I was a blindside ... But kinda sat somewhere between a 6 or 7. Was too slow for 7, and too small for 6 (6'1", 96 kg ... have managed to bulk up since then
).So coach in my 3rd year of seniors asks me to play Hooker. Was actually quite good at it.
Apart from line out throwing.
I'm still trying to find my jumpers.
Chucked the whole playing thing at about 28.
Then took it up again when we moved to Adelaide at about 35ish.
At that stage I tended to wear 1, 2 or 3. Any of them worked.
Played prop (either side) on the Sunny Coast until finally chucked it in my mid-40s.
Rule of thumb is the older you get the smaller the number you wear.
Prior to that growing up there would not be a position I hadn't played in my teens, except maybe 13 and 15. But yes! 9 and 10.
Despite the fact that the best game I ever played was at 8 realistically I'm a 6.
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@African-Monkey said in What position did you play?:
generally I aim for 60+ on Sundays. Prepares me well enough for Marathons (not that there are many on these days) but still have plenty to work on.
So... running 60km once a week (on top of the other 120 km a week) prepares you fro a 40km jog.
Riiiiight.
Prop here.
@nzzp said in What position did you play?:
@African-Monkey said in What position did you play?:
generally I aim for 60+ on Sundays. Prepares me well enough for Marathons (not that there are many on these days) but still have plenty to work on.
So... running 60km once a week (on top of the other 120 km a week) prepares you fro a 40km jog.
Riiiiight.
Prop here.
LH or TH?
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Didn’t play rugby, not sure why. Old man pushed me more into soccer which I disliked, played all over the place there.. preference was Left Right Out....
Grew up loving cricket and softball. Had a mean arm so was always a pitcher in softball and pretty handy (if I can say so myself) medium lace bowler.
We are allowed to talk about other sports here right?
@Virgil tell us about your lace bowling, I presume you had a diabolical doily! Bet they never saw it coming
