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    A Rugby Life

    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 melon's 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 ####?

    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 hearts 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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    Thank God!!!

    I thought it was just me!

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    Oh the memories!

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    May the FORCE be with you!

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    its the times I cant remember which worries me

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    Finally a poem about Forwards - Love it...

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    I just love it....Great stuff...

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    Author, author!

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    Can control myself in public, but in the spirit of this poem I will share, when the doors are closed I find myself physically twitching passes, sidesteps and tackles as the play unfolds on the telly

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    "Bloody oath we did!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burgs View Post
    I find myself physically twitching passes, sidesteps and tackles as the play unfolds on the telly
    To quote Fulvio roughly, "and I thought it was only me"

    AND I didn't realise until the missus started taking the piss. :-)
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    Sent to my dad by one of his rugby mates from the 1950's.

    ... as in they played together from the 1950's - the email just arrived overnight

    But it's a beauty, hey? This is the perfect forum to share it.

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    It was written by a guy called Rupert McCall. His first name must have toughened him up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burgs View Post
    Can control myself in public, but in the spirit of this poem I will share, when the doors are closed I find myself physically twitching passes, sidesteps and tackles as the play unfolds on the telly
    Hey Burgs

    Did you actually ever sidestep when playing? Or pass the ball?


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    Played two 1st XV matches at Scrumhalf but my sidestep was more akin to Cummins' in recent weeks

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