Posted by John Nichols on May 25, 2003 at 18:12:18 from 165.91.199.202 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: John & Roger's schools posted by Robert Dilley on May 25, 2003 at 16:51:45:
Rugby:
My nephew Gabbie goes to Joes' in Sydney. Big Catholic School for Boys.
He is 14 and in Year 8.
Each form has about 6 Rubgy teams - to be in the first 15 at the Senior year is a big event.
He is a mad keen rubgy player.
His brother was to, he is now at the Commonwealth Bank.
I got to Texas A&M University and there is a large Rubgy contingent here. They are not allowed to play on Kyle field - that is reserved for the American version of football.
Kyle Field, as I understand it, if it was in Europe would be the third biggest stadium in terms of crowd. You should see this field it is only built on three sides, they could quite easily fit another 30 - 40 thousand people. The stadium fills for the games, in a town of only 100,000.
Anne's -(she is my wife) TA (like GA but young - he plays rubgy and scares the students) plays rubgy. He was sin binned for 10 minutes for not being able to control his team a few weeks ago. I jokingly said to him he would have had a better chance of arguing with the ref if he had spat the ear out first - funny about Americans usually miss that sought of humour, but he nearly died laughing. I have a theory about rubgy players - ah.......................... they are the same the world over.
One of my friends' sister has a rubgy playing husband who has been offered 12 months in NZ playing rubgy. I said quietly to tell her to take out life insurance as the husband did not look big enough for NZ rubgy.
Anyway got to go pay bills.............
John Nichols