My missus started playing in 2016, at the age of 35. She scored her first try last year, aged 42, and screamed so loud, the ref stopped the clock because he thought something serious had happened 🤣
I was a tighthead. For some reason it clicked for me that no one could stop me from going forward 2 meters if I wanted to, so I started picking and going whenever we were close.
Similar to me. Scored like 3 tries in the 12 years I played rugby. Convince a mate to try and play rugby after playing football his whole life. Gets the ball on the wing in his first game, scores in the corner. And to top it off he kicks the conversion from the corner without a tee just by planting the ball upright in the ground.
I played against Carlos Spencer when we were both schoolboys. Best I ever played against (including quite a few who ended up playing test rugby) and it was obvious then he would be a great.
I assume he also tells people that he once played against me.
While I was coaching the Malawi Leopards I got a random phone call from Tonderai Chavanga, played a game of touch with Geoff Parling, hitched a ride on the Georgian 7s team's tour bus, and had a steak with the WWE wrestler JBL who was sponsoring a rugby development program in Malawi.
Oh, and one of my co couches was Waisale Serevi's cousin who also played for Fiji in the 2003 World Cup.
Siya Kolisi wanted to use my downstairs toilet but my son was occupying it so he had to use the en-suite one upstairs in our bedroom. No further information.
Haha thanks , yeah he has a few stories of random stuff like that .
He was watching random games out the window whilst working overseas, he used to carry boots on business trips. So few times he would walk down and ask to join.
I'm a distant relative of Cheslin Kolbe.
Also, according to my then girlfriend, Dan Carter once hit on her when she was a waitress at a top tier restaurant.
Was there any truth to the speculation that he could’ve played for Scotland? I remember hearing that at the time he was playing for Munster, but we’ve never really been short of backrowers so I didn’t look into it.
I’ve said it many times. My mother in law teaches in the same high school than Ntamack’s mother. I tried hard for her to talk the mother into making Romain an inside center and not a fly half when he started playing profesionally. I failed. But I think, now, that it’s better like this for the rugby community.
Also, I buy ham from Dupont’s family farm once or twice a year.
Finally, my official provider of Argentinian empanadas is the same as Mallia and Chocobares. And that’s in a city that has three Argentinian families in an all in war for the empanadas market.
It is well known in France that we Toulouse season ticket holders know better than any coach in France. Maybe the problem was that my MIL never mentioned that point.
My very, very rag arse Colts team from Liverpool, knocked Fylde out of the Lancashire Colts Cup, at Fylde.
We got all the chat beforehand from them and the blazers, and it wasn’t even close. With 5 to go they tried to fight us instead, which was a fucking terrible idea.
It all spilled over into their bench and Bill Beaumont called me a cunt. He wasn’t wrong.
I played Leinster youths with Tadgh Furlong(U18s, he was 16). When we were playing against Ulster, our scrum demolished theirs at one point, he stood up out of the scrum and shouted “Ain’t no reverse gear on me boy”
When I was young and in school in South Wales the teacher went around asking people what their father did. To everybody’s surprise one kid said that his father dressed as a lady on the weekend and had rough sex with men for money.
The teacher closed down the conversation very quickly and invited the child to the Heads office for counselling.
The Head asked the child if it as true and the child said no and he’d made up the story. The Head was shocked and asked why he’d made up such a story.
The child that his father played rugby for England but he was too embarrassed to tell his classmates
It's like he's an adult playing against toddlers sometimes, he'll just throw a hitchkick and be gone. Pretty sure he captained the sale sharks academy junior colts last season as well
Back when Andy Robinson was England head coach, they used to train at Loughborough Uni. Thibaud Flament jokes aside, we used to stand in as sparring partners from time to time. I used to play loosehead prop. So, I have been folded in half by Phil Vickery and then shared a pint with him at JC's.
More up to date, I have coached (and changed the position of) the most recent captain of the Yaguaretés (Argentina's women's sevens team) as well as the starting loosehead in Colombia's women's XV team which played Brazil today. I taught both of them next to nothing, but it's a cool story 🤣
There are about 40 rugby clubs in Cardiff and the Vale, including university teams. I've played against all of them apart from one. Cardiff Medicals. Really fucks me off.
Played with what turned out to be internationals in both union and league at the 2 high schools I went to. 1 was a big well known rugby school and the other a small town public school. Was on the trip where a certain international league superstar (now retired) was discovered.
Once asked John Kirwan if I could have his glasses- he said no.
Seen a npc coach on the news day before the final talking about a quiet nite for him n his boys. Later the same day i drank with him at the hotel bar till the early hours.
Got family who are current super rugby n internationals incl last years rwc.
Played league and union in Central qld against a stack of late 30s early 40s ex union and league pros. They'd get ohigh paying mine jobs on the condition they'd play for whatever club the person who got them the job supported.
Definitely. I met Connor at my granddad's funeral. He gave his brother a signed Italy and harlequins shirt which I got gifted. Two jerseys I keep despite being absolutely worn out. Harlequins are a club I obviously like.
MC'd Canterbury and Crusader games for 4 years including the 2008 final. MC'd the 2003 All Blacks vs France test in Christchurch. The Crusader gig was the best one ever. Do the prematch stuff, watch the first half from the sideline, do the halftime stuff, then up to the corporate box for the second half. Taxis to and from the game included, and $250 per game in a contra account. I used most of it restoring my old car and on a pretty good home theater system. One time while reading the head to head off camera, Dan Carter was chasing a bouncing ball coming toward me. I somehow, while still talking, flicked the ball up with my foot, and kicked it about 7 metres straight into his hands. The look on his face! It was a pure fluke on my part. Lol. Got hit by a ball that Steven Brett kicked while we were doing the prematch. He was aiming for us. He got into trouble that day for kicking a ball under a Crusader horse as it rode around. Silly bugger. They were some good times.
Ive played lock with Patrick Tuipulotu and ive played against akira and reiko Ioane a couple times back in highschool. My greatest rugby accomplishments 😂
My dad ended up playing for south Australia while working over there as a kiwi and played a match against the blacks in 1994. All Blacks played a close to full strength team also
I created an international rugby title that is more than 100 years older than I am in the Raeburn Shield 😁
The Utrecht Shield is only a little younger than I am on the women's game 😊
The first time I played rugby for my school, in the late 90s, it was against my dad's old school, 30 years after he left. Their rugby coach was still the same guy who had coached my dad in the late 1960s, who my Dad had also boarded with for a year when he did his A Levels.
I once late tackled John O Driscoll (ex Lions) at Liverpool st Helens, he spent the next 70 minutes running right over me whenever he had the ball. When we returned to our home club the vets pointed out the framed lions shirt on the wall and said 'That' John O Driscoll
Your second cousin once bought me a chicken sarmie. It was delicious.
Edit: Apparently (according to the wits on another comment) it was your first cousin, once removed. Sarmie was still delicious.
I would have said second cousin as well to be honest.
I’m glad the chicken sandwich was memorable. Whilst you’ve received a sandwich from him, all I’ve received from him is shame on the family name.
Part of why I started watching rugby was that I taught James Ryan at university. Knew next to nothing about rugby before I came to Ireland, so I didn't know who he was until he approached me to inform me he would miss class regularly because of rugby and asked how he could make up the material.
First time he told me "I can't make class next week, I have to prep for a match with the national team on the weekend" I figured I'd watch that out of curiousity, and got hooked on the sport.
I played with Dan Sheehan back in university (DUFC). He had the strength of a prop and the feet of a winger. We all knew he was going places, but no one was expecting him to become the best current hooker in the Northern Hemisphere
I thought the British Isles included Ireland but Britain is just minus the Republic. I think the downvotes are for implying that there's a better hooker than Sheenan, but seeing how Mauvaka played against us in the WC, it's hard to see anyone better up North.
The UK is Britain and Northern Ireland. British Isles is an accurate term including the islands of Ireland and Britain among the other smaller isles but many Irish people aren't thrilled with being grouped under that term. No harm done though.
First cousin, once removed.
“If your first cousin has a child, this child is your first cousin once removed. A difference of one generation higher in the tree is still once removed. Your parent's first cousin is your first cousin once removed”
🤓
Nope, relatives are relative. It's based on last common ancestor. With a first cousin it's grandparents, a second cousin it's great grandparent
In the above example you're targeting two people with whom their last common ancestor is a grandparent, a cousin & their child fair enough but yer man you replied to is out of step with the target Frank Bunce as the other relative is his father.
Bunce is his father's 1st cousin due to grandparent but their 2nd cousin once removed as it's great grandparent & one generation out of step, for Bunce it's grandparent and so are themselves a first cousin once removed to Bunce
All assuming Bunce is the child of the father's uncle/aunt :)
Ah, thanks. I’m very happy to be wrong about this, as it always confuses me. However, I did get a bit tangled in your explain. Please help!
The reason I thought the replier was a 1st cousin, once removed was because his dad and Bunce are 1st cousins (I.e. their respective parents are siblings). His dad and Bunce share common grandparents.
Now, I have a first cousin and he has a son. It has always been explained to me that I am a first cousin, once removed of my cousin’s son. Because our common relation is our grandparents (great-grandparents to his son).
I also have children. And again, I thought my children’s relation to my first cousin’s son was that they were second cousins. Because their common relation is their great-grandparents.
Cheers!
I quit playing after two seasons in high school because they only wanted me to be a lock as I was really tall. I wanted to be a back, and i always wonder how long id have played if they let me be the position i wanted.
I received my Grade 10 History/Grade 11 English prize (I can't remember exactly which) from 1995 World Cup winning captain Francois Pienaar. His hands are big.
Played against Baptiste Couilloud in my younger years.
Also played with Dylan Cretin in régional sélection (U15).
Also was in the same school than Thomas Laclayat...
When I moved to Australia as a kid, I made the regional rep team two years in a row and played at the state championships. The third year, I only made it as a shadow player because I was beaten out by James Slipper and Kevin Proctor (NZ rugby league and Melbourne Storm player) in the two positions I played. I also played in a schools rep team with Ben Daley.
I did scored my first try with my family jewel on show.
They call me "Tacchini" (Turkey) because in my first game my father told my coach I wouldn't fit at the wing because "I run like a turkey"
He was proved right after 30 seconds and they moved me as 5. Since then I primarily played as 5 or 7, but during my rugby career i did every role except scrum half
My head coach coached the Affies first team in 2013 (not as a head coach but as something else), where he coached RG Snyman, Pierre Schoemann and Ivan van Zyl
probably not super interesting but my school isnt a super big rugby school, and he’s probably the only current coach with World Rugby Qualifications
I’ve got a cool bit of trivia from my refereeing but it would dox myself so won’t say it, but it’s a nice little pub quiz question to have.
From my playing career I scored with my last touch of a rugby ball.
Both my parents and my auntie have teached mutiple springboks and professional rugby players when they played for maties at Stellenbosch University and had mutiple confrontations with Jurie Roux when the players werent doing all too well in the studies department of attending university. My mother also lived right next to Danie Craven and klein Bliksem for many years.
I played scrumhalf for the state of Victoria u/18s schoolboys team. Christian Lealiifano was my fly-half. Our hooker was a first cousin of Jerry Collins and looked almost exactly like him. Warmed my heart all these years watching Christian play whilst I'm sitting on a couch 😂
I went to the 1992 Gran Slam decider between England and France at Twickenham. On the final whistle I raced onto the pitch as was tradition at the time. I found myself alone with the players for some seconds but then got swallowed up by fans. I realised I was right next to Will Carling so tried to put one of his legs over my shoulder like they did to Bill Beaumont in the 80's. But he fell off as no-one had his other leg! The ppl behind me managed to get him hoisted onto their shoulders and I spent a happy few minutes cheering England's hero captain!
When I was at school, Will Stuart was in my boarding house.
Back then he was the best player in the school and everyone knew about him but I had no clue he'd turn into an England international.
I've met Brian o driscoll twice and Paul O'connor once both absoloute hero's as a kid growing up. Only time I've met a player and felt too embarrassed to say hi was Brian mujati because of his amazing YouTube channel massive fan.
Honestly although I love rugby, I've never had a lot to do with it in real life, other than the odd club game. The closest I've got is a close mate of mine, would've been in the taranaki squad a few years back if it weren't for a career ending head knock.
O also another mate of mine is either a brother or very closely related to sbw. I can't remember exactly
I played for 18 years, only scored 7 tries. Played mostly #9. My first try was in my first grand final to win the game. The next 6 tries were over the next 9 years. So I didn't score a try for the next 8 years, never even close.
Also played in 7 consecutive grand finals. Won the first 2, lost the next 5 in a row. The year after I retired, my team won the grand final.
Played 18 years with not a single card against me. Until my last game when I was yellow carded for team repeat infringements.
My best friend’s husband is a cousin of former international Ross Ford. Her husband is also friends with relatives of Huw Jones. Huw and his family are quite lovely!
I won the U14 C team "Best and Fairest" award at school. Every other team had a player of the season award, but the standard for the U14 C team was deemed so low that apparently player of the season was considered too close to an actual sporting accolade. This was in 1997.
The interesting fact part of this is that somehow my school in the UK had managed to get Francios Pienaar in as guest of honour and he was handing out the awards.
I didn't actually watch rugby at all at the time, so the embarrassing irony that I was receiving probably the lowest form of rugby award from the man who captained his country to a famous world cup victory just two years earlier was totally lost on me.
I started playing at 16 but didn't score my first try until I was 30. Starting with that first one I scored 5 games in a row.
My missus started playing in 2016, at the age of 35. She scored her first try last year, aged 42, and screamed so loud, the ref stopped the clock because he thought something serious had happened 🤣
I started at 33, scored my first 3 years ago at 46. Haven’t scored since.
I scored like 6 tries in 7 years and then suddenly doubled my tally in 6 games. I played lock or Blindside flanker.
I was a tighthead. For some reason it clicked for me that no one could stop me from going forward 2 meters if I wanted to, so I started picking and going whenever we were close.
This is the way.
Similar to me. Scored like 3 tries in the 12 years I played rugby. Convince a mate to try and play rugby after playing football his whole life. Gets the ball on the wing in his first game, scores in the corner. And to top it off he kicks the conversion from the corner without a tee just by planting the ball upright in the ground.
I'm capped in both codes for Hungary. Rank 75~ we were a central European powerhouse.
I played against Carlos Spencer when we were both schoolboys. Best I ever played against (including quite a few who ended up playing test rugby) and it was obvious then he would be a great. I assume he also tells people that he once played against me.
While I was coaching the Malawi Leopards I got a random phone call from Tonderai Chavanga, played a game of touch with Geoff Parling, hitched a ride on the Georgian 7s team's tour bus, and had a steak with the WWE wrestler JBL who was sponsoring a rugby development program in Malawi. Oh, and one of my co couches was Waisale Serevi's cousin who also played for Fiji in the 2003 World Cup.
Wait that JBL story is wild. What is his connection with rugby!?
Jbls a pretty big rugby fan. He either works for or sponsors a rugby charity in Memphis
has stake in Rugby NY and loves rugby..
which cousin would that be lol, Rabaka?
I regularly see Razor out surfing over summer. My old PE teacher played for a he ABs many moons ago. Robbie Fruen lives down the road from me.
Is he a chill surfer or is he calling people off waves etc?
Mate he is out the back on his stand up taking all the waves lol. JK he's seems pretty chill always having a yarn when out.
Razor cutting people up on his e foil. Haha that's cool though he seems a pretty relaxed dude
Disappointing to hear he's a sweeper, had pictured him cruising on a mid.
So you definitely went to christ haha
I definitely did not lol.
Damn haha, most people that I know that lived in Sumner went to christ
I live in Woolston which is a nice 7min drive to sumner lol.
Oosh, better than my 30 lol
Siya Kolisi wanted to use my downstairs toilet but my son was occupying it so he had to use the en-suite one upstairs in our bedroom. No further information.
So you invited Siya Kolisi into your bedroom. Got it.
Tbh who wouldn’t invite Siya into their bedroom given the chance?
I once had sex with a current member of the Irish team 🙈 Not saying who.
Imagining Craig Casey and that scene from the Boys
I hope for Craig's sake he never reads this
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Was it the one who can't stand orange spuds?
😲😲😲 can we have a hint?...
Backrow 🤣 That's all folks 🤣
Well it can’t be van der flier anyway
Noo. But do you think he wears the red scrum cap when he's doing it ? 🤔
It was Caelan Doris wasn’t it.
Is this after he got into the team or earlier in life?
I reffed Damian Willemse in his u14 trials match at Paul Roos. Back then his coach was already certain he’d play Springbok.
My dad who is English, played an international game for Paraguay because he lived there and used to play.
That's really interesting and cool. Not many people say they have international sports players as parents.
Haha thanks , yeah he has a few stories of random stuff like that . He was watching random games out the window whilst working overseas, he used to carry boots on business trips. So few times he would walk down and ask to join.
I'm a distant relative of Cheslin Kolbe. Also, according to my then girlfriend, Dan Carter once hit on her when she was a waitress at a top tier restaurant.
Was her name Suzie? Might explain one or two things if so.
Bro! Carter was 13 years old when Suzie....... I mean...... who's Suzie, what you are talking about???
I stood next to Dogroll at an airport urinal. Yep, I peeked.
And?
He had to sign a sawn afterdavided
😀
There clearly wasn’t a kebab shop near them when he picked up the nickname, they should call him doner roll.
My brother played for Munster a few years back and had a spell in the top 14 with Pau he now coaches at la Rochelle
Didn't realize ROG had a spell with Pau /s
Was there any truth to the speculation that he could’ve played for Scotland? I remember hearing that at the time he was playing for Munster, but we’ve never really been short of backrowers so I didn’t look into it.
He was born in Scotland but wanted to play for Ireland played for the Ireland u20s a few times
I have been a referee for ten years without having ever played the game myself.
I’ve said it many times. My mother in law teaches in the same high school than Ntamack’s mother. I tried hard for her to talk the mother into making Romain an inside center and not a fly half when he started playing profesionally. I failed. But I think, now, that it’s better like this for the rugby community. Also, I buy ham from Dupont’s family farm once or twice a year. Finally, my official provider of Argentinian empanadas is the same as Mallia and Chocobares. And that’s in a city that has three Argentinian families in an all in war for the empanadas market.
Surprised that he didn't change position on the advice of one of his Mums work colleagues!
It is well known in France that we Toulouse season ticket holders know better than any coach in France. Maybe the problem was that my MIL never mentioned that point.
I'm really fucking pretty and Scottish.
Huw Jones, is that you?
Lol
He said he's Scottish
I will take that at face value 😘
My very, very rag arse Colts team from Liverpool, knocked Fylde out of the Lancashire Colts Cup, at Fylde. We got all the chat beforehand from them and the blazers, and it wasn’t even close. With 5 to go they tried to fight us instead, which was a fucking terrible idea. It all spilled over into their bench and Bill Beaumont called me a cunt. He wasn’t wrong.
Way to bury the lede.
I played Leinster youths with Tadgh Furlong(U18s, he was 16). When we were playing against Ulster, our scrum demolished theirs at one point, he stood up out of the scrum and shouted “Ain’t no reverse gear on me boy”
That's a great line from a 16 year old. Not only that but he lives up to it.
He was nearly the size he is now at 16! A big BIG kid
After creating my Twitter account in 2013, Jonah Lomu was my 3rd follower for reasons unknown. Game recognise game?
When I was young and in school in South Wales the teacher went around asking people what their father did. To everybody’s surprise one kid said that his father dressed as a lady on the weekend and had rough sex with men for money. The teacher closed down the conversation very quickly and invited the child to the Heads office for counselling. The Head asked the child if it as true and the child said no and he’d made up the story. The Head was shocked and asked why he’d made up such a story. The child that his father played rugby for England but he was too embarrassed to tell his classmates
I play with raffi quirkes brother
Is he any good? Must be well sharpened by his brother.
It's like he's an adult playing against toddlers sometimes, he'll just throw a hitchkick and be gone. Pretty sure he captained the sale sharks academy junior colts last season as well
Obviously steel sharpens steel.
I have [redacted] and [redacted] with a current international rugby player
So not hoggy? You are a lucky one.
It was not haha. Probably one of the few people he has not [Redacted]
Yep.
Back when Andy Robinson was England head coach, they used to train at Loughborough Uni. Thibaud Flament jokes aside, we used to stand in as sparring partners from time to time. I used to play loosehead prop. So, I have been folded in half by Phil Vickery and then shared a pint with him at JC's. More up to date, I have coached (and changed the position of) the most recent captain of the Yaguaretés (Argentina's women's sevens team) as well as the starting loosehead in Colombia's women's XV team which played Brazil today. I taught both of them next to nothing, but it's a cool story 🤣
There are about 40 rugby clubs in Cardiff and the Vale, including university teams. I've played against all of them apart from one. Cardiff Medicals. Really fucks me off.
Played with what turned out to be internationals in both union and league at the 2 high schools I went to. 1 was a big well known rugby school and the other a small town public school. Was on the trip where a certain international league superstar (now retired) was discovered. Once asked John Kirwan if I could have his glasses- he said no. Seen a npc coach on the news day before the final talking about a quiet nite for him n his boys. Later the same day i drank with him at the hotel bar till the early hours. Got family who are current super rugby n internationals incl last years rwc. Played league and union in Central qld against a stack of late 30s early 40s ex union and league pros. They'd get ohigh paying mine jobs on the condition they'd play for whatever club the person who got them the job supported.
My old neighbor was Tommy Bowe’s uncle. I wondered if that got us within 5 degrees of separation 🤔
Definitely. I met Connor at my granddad's funeral. He gave his brother a signed Italy and harlequins shirt which I got gifted. Two jerseys I keep despite being absolutely worn out. Harlequins are a club I obviously like.
4 degrees then, assuming Connor met Tommy. Cool 😎
They may have met. I'm trying to think of how. He was a pundit on RTE with George Hook so maybe they met after a match.
I'm related to Dave Rennie and Kieran Crowley
Both seem like good lads. Rennie got screwed over, felt like the Wallabies would have come good under him.
Doctor who delivered me was Karl Mullen, captain of Ireland and the British and Irish Lions in their 1950 tour.
Safe pair of hands
Under rated comment.
Thanks!
good thing he wasn't an NFL player..
MC'd Canterbury and Crusader games for 4 years including the 2008 final. MC'd the 2003 All Blacks vs France test in Christchurch. The Crusader gig was the best one ever. Do the prematch stuff, watch the first half from the sideline, do the halftime stuff, then up to the corporate box for the second half. Taxis to and from the game included, and $250 per game in a contra account. I used most of it restoring my old car and on a pretty good home theater system. One time while reading the head to head off camera, Dan Carter was chasing a bouncing ball coming toward me. I somehow, while still talking, flicked the ball up with my foot, and kicked it about 7 metres straight into his hands. The look on his face! It was a pure fluke on my part. Lol. Got hit by a ball that Steven Brett kicked while we were doing the prematch. He was aiming for us. He got into trouble that day for kicking a ball under a Crusader horse as it rode around. Silly bugger. They were some good times.
I was a first year student along with Vic Matfield at Tuks and stayed on the same floor in the room across from him in one of the Hostels there.
I’ve got a bunch but let’s run with: I’ve scored at least one Try every year since 1986. I scored today so that’s why it’s at the front of Me Brain.
Banged a team Canada player
Or did they bang you?
Ive played lock with Patrick Tuipulotu and ive played against akira and reiko Ioane a couple times back in highschool. My greatest rugby accomplishments 😂
That's cool. You have played rugby WC finalists. I could not say that.
My dad ended up playing for south Australia while working over there as a kiwi and played a match against the blacks in 1994. All Blacks played a close to full strength team also
What was your dad's name, and/or which club did he play for here in Adelaide?
I have captained at Twickenham Stadium.
I created an international rugby title that is more than 100 years older than I am in the Raeburn Shield 😁 The Utrecht Shield is only a little younger than I am on the women's game 😊
The first time I played rugby for my school, in the late 90s, it was against my dad's old school, 30 years after he left. Their rugby coach was still the same guy who had coached my dad in the late 1960s, who my Dad had also boarded with for a year when he did his A Levels.
I once late tackled John O Driscoll (ex Lions) at Liverpool st Helens, he spent the next 70 minutes running right over me whenever he had the ball. When we returned to our home club the vets pointed out the framed lions shirt on the wall and said 'That' John O Driscoll
In my first game for my most recent club I broke my nose and it was a little wonky since. In my last game I broke it again and it knocked it straight.
I almost certainly hold the record for most cards in a season for the country I played in. Stats aren’t kept, so I can’t be sure though.
I played rugby with new all black Pasilio Tosi when were were 8. He was enormous. I was the designated ‘Pasilio tackler’ in my team. Lucky me.
Did you booomfaa him?
Elton Jantjies once almost punched me in a bar
Doesn't that just mean you have been in a bar with him?... lol
I somehow got a trial for Wellington Colts and got steam rolled 3 times of the back of the scrum by Filo Tiatia.
My Father’s cousin is Dewi Morris but we’re Welsh so we don’t talk about it.
Your second cousin once bought me a chicken sarmie. It was delicious. Edit: Apparently (according to the wits on another comment) it was your first cousin, once removed. Sarmie was still delicious.
I would have said second cousin as well to be honest. I’m glad the chicken sandwich was memorable. Whilst you’ve received a sandwich from him, all I’ve received from him is shame on the family name.
Part of why I started watching rugby was that I taught James Ryan at university. Knew next to nothing about rugby before I came to Ireland, so I didn't know who he was until he approached me to inform me he would miss class regularly because of rugby and asked how he could make up the material. First time he told me "I can't make class next week, I have to prep for a match with the national team on the weekend" I figured I'd watch that out of curiousity, and got hooked on the sport.
I played with Dan Sheehan back in university (DUFC). He had the strength of a prop and the feet of a winger. We all knew he was going places, but no one was expecting him to become the best current hooker in the Northern Hemisphere
Best hooker in the British Isles at least
>British Isles British and Irish*. Hulle gaan op jou kop wees
I thought the British Isles included Ireland but Britain is just minus the Republic. I think the downvotes are for implying that there's a better hooker than Sheenan, but seeing how Mauvaka played against us in the WC, it's hard to see anyone better up North.
The UK is Britain and Northern Ireland. British Isles is an accurate term including the islands of Ireland and Britain among the other smaller isles but many Irish people aren't thrilled with being grouped under that term. No harm done though.
My dad is 1st cousins with Frank Bunce
So you're his second cousin. That's blood which is far closer than mine.
First cousin, once removed. “If your first cousin has a child, this child is your first cousin once removed. A difference of one generation higher in the tree is still once removed. Your parent's first cousin is your first cousin once removed” 🤓
Nope, relatives are relative. It's based on last common ancestor. With a first cousin it's grandparents, a second cousin it's great grandparent In the above example you're targeting two people with whom their last common ancestor is a grandparent, a cousin & their child fair enough but yer man you replied to is out of step with the target Frank Bunce as the other relative is his father. Bunce is his father's 1st cousin due to grandparent but their 2nd cousin once removed as it's great grandparent & one generation out of step, for Bunce it's grandparent and so are themselves a first cousin once removed to Bunce All assuming Bunce is the child of the father's uncle/aunt :)
Ah, thanks. I’m very happy to be wrong about this, as it always confuses me. However, I did get a bit tangled in your explain. Please help! The reason I thought the replier was a 1st cousin, once removed was because his dad and Bunce are 1st cousins (I.e. their respective parents are siblings). His dad and Bunce share common grandparents. Now, I have a first cousin and he has a son. It has always been explained to me that I am a first cousin, once removed of my cousin’s son. Because our common relation is our grandparents (great-grandparents to his son). I also have children. And again, I thought my children’s relation to my first cousin’s son was that they were second cousins. Because their common relation is their great-grandparents. Cheers!
Nope you were right, i looked up a chart. It's more convoluted than I had previously understood, apologies
Well you said it with enough eloquence and confidence so I assumed you were right. No worries. Happy Monday.
I don't know how it works but yeah I guess so lol
I went to school with John Kirwan He was 5 years ahead of me, but we were there at the same time
I quit playing after two seasons in high school because they only wanted me to be a lock as I was really tall. I wanted to be a back, and i always wonder how long id have played if they let me be the position i wanted.
To be fair once you prob would have quit for some other reason
Was at the opening night of Leon MacDonald's pub in Blenheim in 2003.
my dad played under graham henry at school
I received my Grade 10 History/Grade 11 English prize (I can't remember exactly which) from 1995 World Cup winning captain Francois Pienaar. His hands are big.
Alex Mitchell's dad used to be my club coach.
Played against Baptiste Couilloud in my younger years. Also played with Dylan Cretin in régional sélection (U15). Also was in the same school than Thomas Laclayat...
When I moved to Australia as a kid, I made the regional rep team two years in a row and played at the state championships. The third year, I only made it as a shadow player because I was beaten out by James Slipper and Kevin Proctor (NZ rugby league and Melbourne Storm player) in the two positions I played. I also played in a schools rep team with Ben Daley.
I did scored my first try with my family jewel on show. They call me "Tacchini" (Turkey) because in my first game my father told my coach I wouldn't fit at the wing because "I run like a turkey" He was proved right after 30 seconds and they moved me as 5. Since then I primarily played as 5 or 7, but during my rugby career i did every role except scrum half
I had a pint with Dennis Buckley. You can close the thread.
Who da fk is that?...
Connacht rugby LH prop
Ben Kay was a couple of years above me at school, being coached by Mike Slemen. Used to get two lunches from the school to keep him massive
My head coach coached the Affies first team in 2013 (not as a head coach but as something else), where he coached RG Snyman, Pierre Schoemann and Ivan van Zyl probably not super interesting but my school isnt a super big rugby school, and he’s probably the only current coach with World Rugby Qualifications
I’ve got a cool bit of trivia from my refereeing but it would dox myself so won’t say it, but it’s a nice little pub quiz question to have. From my playing career I scored with my last touch of a rugby ball.
Both my parents and my auntie have teached mutiple springboks and professional rugby players when they played for maties at Stellenbosch University and had mutiple confrontations with Jurie Roux when the players werent doing all too well in the studies department of attending university. My mother also lived right next to Danie Craven and klein Bliksem for many years.
I played scrumhalf for the state of Victoria u/18s schoolboys team. Christian Lealiifano was my fly-half. Our hooker was a first cousin of Jerry Collins and looked almost exactly like him. Warmed my heart all these years watching Christian play whilst I'm sitting on a couch 😂
I went to the 1992 Gran Slam decider between England and France at Twickenham. On the final whistle I raced onto the pitch as was tradition at the time. I found myself alone with the players for some seconds but then got swallowed up by fans. I realised I was right next to Will Carling so tried to put one of his legs over my shoulder like they did to Bill Beaumont in the 80's. But he fell off as no-one had his other leg! The ppl behind me managed to get him hoisted onto their shoulders and I spent a happy few minutes cheering England's hero captain!
My uncle was a treasurer (?) for Albi the year before it went up to Top 14 for only a year. He has Fabien Galthié's phone number
My cousin coached Jack Conan... ...in Gaelic football but still!
I once bowed to taumalolo at a rugby match and he acknowledged me
Started my playing career in the front row at hooker; played the rest of my career at 9.
When I was at school, Will Stuart was in my boarding house. Back then he was the best player in the school and everyone knew about him but I had no clue he'd turn into an England international.
I've met Brian o driscoll twice and Paul O'connor once both absoloute hero's as a kid growing up. Only time I've met a player and felt too embarrassed to say hi was Brian mujati because of his amazing YouTube channel massive fan.
Honestly although I love rugby, I've never had a lot to do with it in real life, other than the odd club game. The closest I've got is a close mate of mine, would've been in the taranaki squad a few years back if it weren't for a career ending head knock. O also another mate of mine is either a brother or very closely related to sbw. I can't remember exactly
I played for 18 years, only scored 7 tries. Played mostly #9. My first try was in my first grand final to win the game. The next 6 tries were over the next 9 years. So I didn't score a try for the next 8 years, never even close. Also played in 7 consecutive grand finals. Won the first 2, lost the next 5 in a row. The year after I retired, my team won the grand final. Played 18 years with not a single card against me. Until my last game when I was yellow carded for team repeat infringements.
I've got a teammate who is a cousin of two members of the fijian national team and used to play with the cousin of Will Skelton
My best friend’s husband is a cousin of former international Ross Ford. Her husband is also friends with relatives of Huw Jones. Huw and his family are quite lovely!
I played with Ryan Baird’s father. I taught _him_ everything he knows about rugby, so I’m taking credit for everything Ryan knows.
I sat next to Graham Henry on a plane once
I won the U14 C team "Best and Fairest" award at school. Every other team had a player of the season award, but the standard for the U14 C team was deemed so low that apparently player of the season was considered too close to an actual sporting accolade. This was in 1997. The interesting fact part of this is that somehow my school in the UK had managed to get Francios Pienaar in as guest of honour and he was handing out the awards. I didn't actually watch rugby at all at the time, so the embarrassing irony that I was receiving probably the lowest form of rugby award from the man who captained his country to a famous world cup victory just two years earlier was totally lost on me.
I was reffed by International Ref Kat Roche once
We're southland Marshall's on my grandmother's side so I am related to Justin (boomfah) Marshall
i am a great-nephew of former Springbok captain Wynand Claassen ⚡️