Sporting Controversy Involving Old Blue..........

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:02 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.j ... nort19.xml

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:27 pm

Seems the 'banter' hasn't moved on much since the '70, then!

Actually the only time I ever got sent off was by Bogey Fryer during an inter-house match. I informed the touch judge that, in my humble opinion, he was not entirely qualified to fulfill his duties, and that perhaps he should understand that a ball grounded on the goal-line by a member of the attacking team does in fact mean that a try should be awarded.

Actually, my exact words were more akin to the "useless" phrase used by Mark Robinson.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:23 pm

something to do with his ancestry then and presumably that he needed to see an optician as well.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:41 pm

englishangel wrote:something to do with his ancestry then and presumably that he needed to see an optician as well.

Somewhat ruder, I'm afraid!

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:03 pm

Thought I'd better clarify for those who don't know that Andrew Higgins is the OB not Robinson.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:34 pm

...... and I thought Rugby Union players respected their linesmen !

...Unlike Association Football, where 'lino's' often have their parentage questioned !

UserRequestedRemoval · Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:06 am

I don't think I will ever forget the shock I got when, as a third former squit, I was introduced to rugby. Being a Londoner, I had only ever played football to this point.
With my build I was a certainty for the pack and so I encountered my first scrum down.........
I was playing tight head prop and the hooker threw his arm around me, I thought "hang on son, your being a bit friendly aren't you!" But what the heck, I better show willing. Then before I could get over the first shock I found this shoulder against my backside and an arm thrust betwen my legs grabbing at the waist band of my shorts!
I didn't know any better so I gave him a back heel in the face. He asked for it grabbing where even my mother can't go!
Next thing I know, I am sent off and told to wait outside the housemaster's study. I got a lecture explaining rugby and had to go to the sicker and apologise to the guy with a wider nose.
Oh the joys of rugby.

sport! · Post by **sport!** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:45 am

Richard Ruck wrote:Actually the only time I ever got sent off was by Bogey Fryer during an inter-house match. I informed the touch judge that, in my humble opinion, he was not entirely qualified to fulfill his duties, and that perhaps he should understand that a ball grounded on the goal-line by a member of the attacking team does in fact mean that a try should be awarded.

Actually, my exact words were more akin to the "useless" phrase used by Mark Robinson.

A Leagues v. Col. B if I remember correctly - gave us a great boost to see your departure...

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:39 am

sport! wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:Actually the only time I ever got sent off was by Bogey Fryer during an inter-house match. I informed the touch judge that, in my humble opinion, he was not entirely qualified to fulfill his duties, and that perhaps he should understand that a ball grounded on the goal-line by a member of the attacking team does in fact mean that a try should be awarded.

Actually, my exact words were more akin to the "useless" phrase used by Mark Robinson.
A Leagues v. Col. B if I remember correctly - gave us a great boost to see your departure...

Your memory is better than mine!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:59 am

This reminds me of a cup-ties match which Maine A was playing in on my Grecians... (Andrew Higgins may well have been playing for Thorn A if my memory serves me correctly).

We had been watching the game, refereed by a current RFU ref (who also teaches at the school) when the Maine A house captain went up to the ref at half time and offered him his glasses...

UserRequestedRemoval · Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:52 am

Oh the happy hours I spent dutifully running with the pack in the forlorn hope that we night actually get somewhere near the ball. I only touched the ball twice in 3 years of rugby in Mid B. The first time I found myself suddenly and very unexpectedly holding the ball only to find two packs landing ontop of me....Stauff that for a lark!
The second time, I remember the first so I booted it as hard as I could back at our own tryline, The ball sailed all the way to the Thorn A touchline. I was bl**dy knackered by the time we all got to it again.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:32 am

soc wrote:Oh the happy hours I spent dutifully running with the pack in the forlorn hope that we night actually get somewhere near the ball. I only touched the ball twice in 3 years of rugby in Mid B. The first time I found myself suddenly and very unexpectedly holding the ball only to find two packs landing ontop of me....Stauff that for a lark!
The second time, I remember the first so I booted it as hard as I could back at our own tryline, The ball sailed all the way to the Thorn A touchline. I was bl**dy knackered by the time we all got to it again.

I tried to keep away from the ball... alas the spots genes did not run in my family!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:34 am

Great Plum wrote:alas the spots genes did not run in my family!

I would have thought that would have been a bit of a plus when you were a teenager!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:57 am

I'm not doing very well with spelling am I?

I meant sports genes!!

sport! · Post by **sport!** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:26 pm

Richard Ruck wrote: Your memory is better than mine!

a raging

RR stays imprinted on the memory