The Offical NeverSayRugger Interview Questionnaire

To celebrate NSR’s 1st Year and 100th Blog, I would love it if you could answer the following questions as honestly and / or amusingly as you can.

Name: BigCol
Age: Old Enough Not to Know Better
Position: Lock, Prop, Doggy.
Clubs: Wafer Milk Chocolate, Swansea Youth, Neath Colts, Pontardawe, The Mighty Trebanos, 9 Iron, Bristol Sarries

1. Which boot on first?

Depends which side of me they’re lying.

2. Have you ever done something in a match that you wish you hadn’t

Celebrated a try. Showed how infrequently I score.

3. Have you ever not done something in a match that you wish you had?

Scored more tries.

4. Which rugby player/personality is your biggest influence? Why?

Gareth Llewellyn. Wanted to be as tall as him.

5. If you could go back and do it, who would you have given a smacking or shoeing to? Why?

Sir Clive Woodward. Why? Stupid question.

6. When and where was your best post (or pre!) rugby drinking session?

After Wales V Scotland 1994. Spewed & Crapped myself at exactly the same time.

7. Socks up or socks down?

Up. Too easy for the ref to spot otherwise.

8. Who is the one player you really rate playing in Wales?

John Davies. A real warhorse.

9. Who is the one player you really rate playing in the world?

Dunno at mo but they have to be a kiwi.

10. Have you got SKY sports?

No

11. Who is the most over-rated player in the game today? Why?

Johnny Wilkinson – Injury prone

12. Which kit do you like best?

Dallas Cowboys cheerleader’s

13. What is you favourite combination of food and drink? (Mine is beer and a cheese & onion roll)

Tea & chocolate biscuits.

14. What was your most enjoyable game of rugby to date?

A youth match in my early days. Watching our flyer of a wing getting ankle tapped short of the line, doing a forward roll & knocking himself unconscious against the post. F’in hilarious!

15. Your favourite rugby story is…?

The tale of a misspent youth spending hours kicking the ball at the posts with a dream of being the next Paul Thorburn, regardless of the fact that I, I mean he, couldn’t kick for putty.

Thank you, Col. Truly.