The greatest person to represent your club/city/region/province. ( a way to while away the time before the SIs)

They don't have to be rugby supporters (even less, players). Just people you can be proud of as being associated with your part of your world.

e.g. Leicester: David Attenborough. Not born - but educated there. The finest TV broadcaster ever? Not a Tigers' fan so far as I'm aware (probably like Richard, his brother, a Chelsea fan. Also Alec Jeffreys who from the Local University who developed genetic fingerprinting.

That sort of stuff.

I'm sure that there will be calls for James Watt, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Telford, Sir Edmund Hillary, Ned Kelly, Imogen Thomas

Spoiler:

etc.

JUST FUN

Looks like Ms Thomas is squeezing George Gregan and Peter Stringer a bit too close there.

I feel lucky to have seen some great players at Newport RFC and then more recently Gwent Dragons. Gary Teichmann was great for Newport, and lived up to his billing as a top player. Percy Montgomery I think spanned both Newport RFC and then stayed on into regional rugby with the Dragons. While I don't think he settled too well he had a number of top performances. Quality player.

Steve Staunton was born in Drogheda but raised in Dundalk.

When he was a great football player for Ireland we used to claim "He was born in Drogheda you know"

When he became a disastrously bad Irish manager we then said "Dundalk c**t".

Looks like Ms Thomas is squeezing George Gregan and Peter Stringer a bit too close there.

Feckless Rogue wrote:Steve Staunton was born in Drogheda but raised in Dundalk.

When he was a great football player for Ireland we used to claim "He was born in Drogheda you know"

When he became a disastrously bad Irish manager we then said "Dundalk c**t".

Sounds a bit like Russell Crowe. NZ actor, Aussie singer

Portnoy wrote:They don't have to be rugby supporters (even less, players). Just people you can be proud of as being associated with your part of your world.

e.g. Leicester: David Attenborough. Not born - but educated there. The finest TV broadcaster ever? Not a Tigers' fan so far as I'm aware (probably like Richard, his brother, a Chelsea fan. Also Alec Jeffreys who from the Local University who developed genetic fingerprinting.

That sort of stuff.

I'm sure that there will be calls for James Watt, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Telford, Sir Edmund Hillary, Ned Kelly, Imogen Thomas

Spoiler:

etc.

JUST FUN

I'm sure I was told that more than a handful is a waste? or was it a waist?

Portnoy, one that you might appreciate:

PETER COOK.
Born in Torquay, Devon. Born 1937. Died 1995 - English comedian and actor. Co-wrote and performed in the revue Beyond the Fringe (1960) and its sequel. Worked with Dudley Moore in the television programme Not Only….But Also (1965-71). Film appearances included The Wrong Box (1966), The Secret Policeman’s Ball (1979) and The Princess Bride (1987). Co-founder of the magazine Private Eye and The Establishment club in London.

Otahuhu: the better known ones

Des Christian 1949
Frank McMullen 1957-60
Waka Nathan 1962-64, ’66-67
Mac Herewini 1962-66
Keven Mealamu 2002-09
Joe Rokocoko 2007-09
Jerome Kaino 2008-09

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:Portnoy, one that you might appreciate:

PETER COOK.
Born in Torquay, Devon. Born 1937. Died 1995 - English comedian and actor. Co-wrote and performed in the revue Beyond the Fringe (1960) and its sequel. Worked with Dudley Moore in the television programme Not Only….But Also (1965-71). Film appearances included The Wrong Box (1966), The Secret Policeman’s Ball (1979) and The Princess Bride (1987). Co-founder of the magazine Private Eye and The Establishment club in London.

You don't have to make me wet myself As.

A great satirist. Brilliant with Dudley Moore.

John Cleese was born in Weston-Super-Mare that's down your way(ish) (Somerset?)

Coming from Edinburgh, the match day programme would be a lot more upmarket if Sir Walter Scott wrote it.
Ronnie Corbett could source endless material from watching some of the moves attempted by our centres over the years.
RDW - if you are watching this thread in your new capacity as a Prefect, did you know Ronnie Corbett went to our Alma Mater?

Arguably this guy The Son of Prophecy ??

Harri Tudur; 28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509, born in Castell Penfro (Pembroke Castle)

PenfroPete wrote:Arguably this guy The Son of Prophecy ??

Harri Tudur; 28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509, born in Castell Penfro (Pembroke Castle)

Was the geezer who couldn't speak a word of English Penfro and was accepted as PoW Penfro?

No Portnoy - he was, in English, Henry Tudor.

Victor at the Battle of Bosworth field and founder of the Tudor dynasty

PenfroPete wrote:No Portnoy - he was, in English, Henry Tudor.

Victor at the Battle of Bosworth field and founder of the Tudor dynasty

Welsh, German/Dutch/Scottish - ev'ry fecker bar the English

Brian O Driscoll, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Phil Lynott, Jonathon Swift, James Joyce, Mike Gibson, Brendan Behan, Sinead O' Connor, Bono (there's always one) Shaggy.

Our house was mad, but great craic like.

the rugby league club is pretty close (well it's closer than the union club), and it has produced union internationals - James O'Connor, Shontayne Hape and Henry Paul