I had two sessions with a rugby ref. The first was in Prep A; in the rules as was explained to us it says you can't pass the ball forward. I simply turned round and threw the ball backwards over my head. That earned me a session with Mr Jones when I complained that I had followed the rules as stated and that the ref should also obey them.soc wrote: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.
On a later occasion, playing 2nd row for Accra Wanderers I came out of the pack in a hurry and got my rising head up the backside of someone not of my team. A complaint about obstruction and telling the so-and-so that he should get out of the way was not appreciated by a ref with a bruised coccyx!!! I didn't tell him to wash his ass as was claimed
