What position did you play?
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Wing as boy, center through my main years playing as a teenager.
My coach one year asked me to play lock as I was the tallest in the team - after one half he asked me what my real position was - if I had one
Went straight back to 13.
Went to 12 when I came to Japan and didn’t have the speed to defend the outside break against the little fast bastards here, then 6 for the last two years jumping at 2 and not doing much else forwarding.
All done with that by 30, and was in the process of getting back into it for a presidents grade type thing when I had my stroke at 35.
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Was tall so was always in the forwards as school and when I started club rugby.
Played club rugby for a couple of years and it was only in the second year I switched to 2nd 5/8 which was my best position. I could often beat a man and make a break, set up 2nd phase or occasionally pass. By then I'd discovered motorcycling and basketball so rugby pretty much stopped.
Was never really good at sport (unlike my wider whanau which has a number of sports stars) - just enjoyed playing and participating.
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@MiketheSnow said in What position did you play?:
Second Five (Inside Centre) at senior level
Migrated to Openside by the time I finished.
Done by 29. Fucked knee.
Quitter.
Beginning of my ski career
Still going strong at 53
3 days before Lockdown
Soul turns on Hokkaido
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As a midget with a decent turn of pace, wing through my early childhood.
Hit secondary school and as a midget with a turn of pace, played wing until 15 when I spent the off season teaching myself to pass/kick off both hands/feet, then the next coach took a punt on me at fullback. Where I showed I was a running fullback.
Club rugby at first was mostly fullback, where as a skinny bones I learnt it hurt less to tackle the massive polys than pretend to tackle. When I hit prems I was mostly wing/fullback with the odd trot at centre in the reserves. Season of U85s before coming over here where I was a centre who covered blindside at a pinch.
Over to the UK and was thrust into the hard running and tackling 12/13 mainly as no-one knew how to run lines or hit hard. Would cover wing/fullback but had lost any sense of kicking skills by then.
Onto vets where half the time I would end up being an absolutely shit 10, or a mediocre centre. But man could I shout at people.
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Going back onto the field this weekend after the heart scan produced no problems. Sure, Mrs TA isn't thrilled, but maybe she should spend less time worrying about my injuries and more time massaging me after games and admiring my manly pursuits?
Any of the front row positions, though even I consider hooker a bit mental. I did a bit of second row (no lineout jumping tho I won a few here and there) and flanker but second row is too much anaerobic and flanker way too much aerobic.
What I love about the level of rugby I'm playing now is the other blokes very rarely know what they're doing, so it is a field day by and large. Happy to swap tips during or after the game, depending on how fast they learn
Who were you playing against ? Leprechauns?
One of the better scrummaging second rows
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Wing/centre through college and early years of club rugby. Stocky power winger... Inga was my childhood hero lol. Then I got fat after uni and for a number of years was one of the quicker props you'd see in reserve grade in wellies. Ah, the cape of faint praise and self deprecation still fits 😁
Wish I'd drilled more skills younger though, average tackler but loved contact 🤷♂️ knew I didn't have the mongrel for higher grades... ah or the talent!Great thread btw! 👍
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Prop through highschool and just shuffled over one to hooker for club in uni, mainly due to the size of the props I was playing with so had a crash course in line out throwing in preseason
Gave up club whilst at uni, didn’t feel I could work, do uni and commit to playing
Played pick up games or social since
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@MiketheSnow Nice. the second vid reminds me a bit of those trains going through the snow in Siberia. Not sure they know quite where they're going sometimes too!
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@Catogrande said in What position did you play?:
@MiketheSnow Nice. the second vid reminds me a bit of those trains going through the snow in Siberia. Not sure they know quite where they're going sometimes too!
Yep, I've had to drop anchor plenty of times especially in the trees.
The snow is so light and deep you can be out of vision for a couple of turns.
And if you don't get the breathing right it's like trying to swallow a piece of coal.
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Left wing mainly but I played in every other backline position at least once, apart from 1st 5, at schoolboy level.
I gave up rugby at uni and played more cricket (indoor and outdoor) at that time.
I've been playing Sunday league football for the last 18 years. Much easier on the body but playing against kids less than half your age makes it interesting. I was marking a guy that was in the Wellington Phoenix Academy a few weeks back.
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Jeez. Long story.
In my first year of senior rugby I was a blindside ... But kinda sat somewhere between a 6 or 7. Was too slow for 7, and too small for 6 (6'1", 96 kg ... have managed to bulk up since then
).So coach in my 3rd year of seniors asks me to play Hooker. Was actually quite good at it.
Apart from line out throwing.
I'm still trying to find my jumpers.
Chucked the whole playing thing at about 28.
Then took it up again when we moved to Adelaide at about 35ish.
At that stage I tended to wear 1, 2 or 3. Any of them worked.
Played prop (either side) on the Sunny Coast until finally chucked it in my mid-40s.
Rule of thumb is the older you get the smaller the number you wear.
Prior to that growing up there would not be a position I hadn't played in my teens, except maybe 13 and 15. But yes! 9 and 10.
Despite the fact that the best game I ever played was at 8 realistically I'm a 6.
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At 12 -25, Lock. Tallest in the team at 178cm. I'm now 42, current height. 178cm.
Flanker at 15, although my complete lack of ability started to show through
Wing at 16. My vision had started to deteriorate by this point ... struggling to see the ball.17 years old. Required eye surgery. End of the line for me on contact sport for 3 years.
19 years old.. Required eye surgery on other eye. Another 3 years out.
22 years old. Now in London. Eye failed completely. Moorfields told me that was the end of the line for me for contact sport.Cut down in my prime. Still had 8 years to prove I was Frank Bunce the second.
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Prop (preferred loosehead) and covered hooker as well.
Was 106 kg at my heaviest during my school years, now I weigh 71 kg haha since taking up running almost 10 years ago.
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@African-Monkey said in What position did you play?:
Prop (preferred loosehead) and covered hooker as well.
Was 106 kg at my heaviest during my school years, now I weigh 71 kg haha since taking up running almost 10 years ago.
That’s fucking impressive!
I got to 103 kegs at uni, then settled around 94-95 until I started running at 32. After that the lowest I got was 78.5
I felt like a deer...
Until I tried to run a half with my friends who were 70 kgs.
Those (you) fluffybunnies are deer.
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@gt12 You still run? Yeah running has become an addiction for me haha. I've never been seriously injured before but I'm sure my legs will crap out on me sometime.
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Halfback.
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All three front row positions. Settled on Tighthead Prop as my Favourite. Mainly a B team player, peaked at 21 and played four Senior A games for my home district club. Still running around in my late thirties playing Prezzies and will continue to do so till I can have a game with my currently 12 year old son.
