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@african-monkey Waikari.
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At school we use to play Scots once or twice a year for 1st 15 fixtures. We Victor Vito was the same age so we played each other every year for 3 years.
We both have the same name and were both the somewhat tokens in our team. After one come from behind away win in the dying seconds one of my teammates started yelling out ' we have the better token Victor'. At the aftermatch function, we were chatting and he jokingly said ' congrats on being the better token'.
In all honesty, I was shocked to see a few years ago Scots killing it in NZ rugby as they were for years rubbish. We knew we would win if Vito wasn't playing that's how much they depended on him. I think they went something like 15 years without winning a game at our quad or something along those lines.
I guess you can chuck money at a problem!
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David Campesi, yes it's true. We go back years, close personal friends actually.
About 35 years ago I bought my son's first football. Campo had a sports shop at Circular Quay on Sydney Cove.
I walked in, he was over the back stocking shelves and such, I looked around, selected a ball and went to the counter. He rang up the purchase and I passed over my card. He put the ball in a bag, swiped the card and I signed it, picked up the bag - by which time he had returned over the back stocking shelves. Not a word was spoken, I didn't even get to say "thank you" and we haven't spoken since.
... and that's about as close and personal as one got to Campo, he never was affable.
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@mick-gold-coast-qld said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
David Campesi, yes it's true. We go back years, close personal friends actually.
About 35 years ago I bought my son's first football. Campo had a sports shop at Circular Quay on Sydney Cove.
I walked in, he was over the back stocking shelves and such, I looked around, selected a ball and went to the counter. He rang up the purchase and I passed over my card. He put the ball in a bag, swiped the card and I signed it, picked up the bag - by which time he had returned over the back stocking shelves. Not a word was spoken, I didn't even get to say "thank you" and we haven't spoken since.
... and that's about as close and personal as one got to Campo, he was not affable.
Ah Campo, I was once at a Randwick training (on a school rugby tour) and my billet hosts had given me a Randwick club hat to get signed, got about 10 Wallabies signatures on it, not Campos - straight after training when everyone had a BBQ and a few beers (early 90s) he ran, and I mean ran, to his Ferrari and drove off.
Your story sounds a bit dodgy though, using a card in Sydney 35 years ago ...
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@mick-gold-coast-qld He didn't thank you for giving him your autograph?
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@mick-gold-coast-qld said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
David Campesi, yes it's true. We go back years, close personal friends actually.
About 35 years ago I bought my son's first football. Campo had a sports shop at Circular Quay on Sydney Cove.
I walked in, he was over the back stocking shelves and such, I looked around, selected a ball and went to the counter. He rang up the purchase and I passed over my card. He put the ball in a bag, swiped the card and I signed it, picked up the bag - by which time he had returned over the back stocking shelves. Not a word was spoken, I didn't even get to say "thank you" and we haven't spoken since.
... and that's about as close and personal as one got to Campo, he never was affable.
My ex worked down that area so I walked past him on numerous occasions.
Christ, this post is boring even by my standards. I can't make this story any better.
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I got 2 degrees of separation to Tiger Woods.
Think this thread might need to jump over to OT
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@nepia said in [Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related
Ah Campo, I was once at a Randwick training (on a school rugby tour) and my billet hosts had given me a Randwick club hat to get signed, got about 10 Wallabies signatures on it, not Campos - straight after training when everyone had a BBQ and a few beers (early 90s) he ran, and I mean ran, to his Ferrari and drove off.
When I was a young fella I did get Campo's autograph when he was a member of the Aust U21s. No Ferrari back then!
Checking the match programme it was in 1983, a curtainraiser vs Waikato U21s to a Waikato-Canterbury game. That was a handy Aust U21 team looking at the names.
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just for amusement - I show people this pic to explain how I'm never going to win races that go up hills... me and LA.
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@mick-gold-coast-qld I heard him speak at a dinner once. He has this terrible dull monotone voice that could probably turn the end of the 2011 World Cup final into a dirge. Just didn't connect with the audience at all, and everyone in the room was a rugby enthusiast.
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@williethewaiter said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
ust for amusement - I show people this pic to explain how I'm never going to win races that go up hills... me and LA.
Keep holding him back like that and you have a chance. Not going to comment on ideal body shapes or we will end up with Carl Hayman playing number 8.
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@taniwharugby said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
I got 2 degrees of separation to Tiger Woods.
Think this thread might need to jump over to OT
I've got 1 degree. My mate met him when he came over to play at Pram golf course.
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@mn5 isn't 1 degree when you know someone?
2 degrees is when you know someone that knows someone?
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@taniwharugby said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
@mn5 isn't 1 degree when you know someone?
2 degrees is when you know someone that knows someone?
I think you're right actually.
So you know someone who has met tiger then?
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@billy-tell said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
@godder said in Most Famous people you have played sport with ( or had breakfast with), or are related to.:
I went to school with a few - the most famous would be Chris Jack. I also got some cricket coaching from Craig McMillan and Chris Cairns and delivered pizza to the Hadlees, and Chris Harris (he gave me a solid tip for grabbing a pack of cigars from the gas station up the road).
Chess is where I've met and played nearly all of Australia and NZ's top players including various Grandmasters and a few big international names as well - Nigel Short probably the biggest name.
Mark Noble won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games for bowls, and is also NZ's best ever Correspondence chess player.
Ooooh. A fellow Shirley Boys High man. Chris Jack was in my class. What years were you there? I finished up 1996.
Finished 1997, but Chris was in one of my classes as I was a year ahead in Maths and English. Most famous sportsman in any of my form classes was Michael Papps in 7th form.
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@mn5 ... allow me to help you.
It is difficult to top Jegga's legendary breakfast with Jerome Kaino, Joe Moody, Damian Mackenzie and Liam Squire but this has got to be galloping up behind and finishing fast - breakfast with Graham Gooch, Hansie Cronje and Pat Simcock one Friday in the mid '90s at the Sheraton Brisbane. I was accompanied by a business colleague - 30 years old and gorgeous - Gooch invited us to join them. Simcock wasn't interested in the earnest discussion about stuff and spent his time ogling her.
Reflecting on brushes with fame I have been fortunate to have met scores of prominent sportsmen. That is unremarkable given an involvement in rugby from teenage on; and the opportunities which came my way during corporate life at the top end of the oil industry. My company sponsored annual sports star awards in each State for decades from the '50's through to about 2000, country rugby league during its golden days and, of course, prominent car rallies and sponsored sedan car racing drivers. Premium corporate box at the SCG next to Kerry Packer's, squiring guests about the Bathurst 500 and so on.
The awards nights were glittering affairs and we each hosted a table of guests including a couple of the same guests year in year out - a clever move to ensure young and inexperienced newcomers were seated with people who had an existing familiarity with their host. For me they included Sir James Hardy - several times Olympic, Admirals Cup and Americas Cup yachtsman who owned a huuggge wine company; and Billy Birmingham, comedian of 12th Man fame, who was invited as chaperone to his disabled sister, a successful swimmer - both fine fellas.
Topo RodrÃguez and your John Walker (a runner) amused on one occasion just after their careers ended, both clearly struggling with no longer being quite so famous, staggering about competing madly for the attention of a sparkling young female runner(?) who had never heard of them and making complete fools of themselves.
I have been a bit lucky, for sure.
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