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Surname	First names	Known by
Beams	Ken John J		view
Bedwell-Curtis	Heiden Kahira		view
Beetham	Charles John	Charlie	view
Bekhuis	Joshua James George	Josh	view
Bell	Craig Te Whitu		view
Bennett	John Vivian		view
Bennett	Patrick James	Pat	view
Berkett	Stephen John	Steve	view
Berry	Martin Joseph	Marty	view
Betty	John Wayne		view
Beveridge	Philip John	Phil	view
Bevin	Bryce Alister Peter		view
Blackadder	Todd Julian		view
Blackburn	Tyler A C		view
Blackie	Joshua Michael	Josh	view
Blackwell	Eloise S		view
Blackwell	James		view
Blake	Laurae M A		view
Bleyendaal	Tyler		view
Bloomberg	Simon		view
Bloxham	Kenneth Charles	Ken	view
Boe	John William		view
Bokser	Trevor Raymond		view
Bonnar	Ben T		view
Booth	Jamie Patrick		view
Boroevich	Kevin Grant		view
Botica	Frano Michael		view
Bourke	Colin Raymond		view
Boyd	Kenneth Gregory Conrad	Kenny	view
Bracewell	Douglas William	Doug	view
Bradley	Alexander James	Alex	view
Bradley	Anna M		view
Bradnock	Joshua John	Josh	view
Braid	Daniel John		view
Braid	Gary John		view
Braid	Luke Gary		view
Brain	Errol Fraser		view
Bremner	Alana Jane		view
Brewer	Michael Robert	Mike	view
Briggs	Gavin Dwain		view

Endorsement

When the battle scars have faded
And the truth becomes a lie
And the weekend smell of liniment
Could almost make you cry.
When the last rucks well behind you
And the man that ran now walks
It doesn’t matter who you are
The mirror sometimes talks
Have a good hard look old son!
The melons not that great
The snoz that takes a sharp turn sideways
Used to be dead straight
You’re an advert for arthritis
You’re a thoroughbred gone lame
Then you ask yourself the question
Why the hell you played the game?
Was there logic in the head knocks?
In the corks and in the cuts?
Did common sense get pushed aside?
By manliness and guts?
Do you sometimes sit and wonder
Why your time would often pass
In a tangled mess of bodies
With your head up someone’s......?
With a thumb hooked up your nostril
Scratching gently on your brain
And an overgrown Neanderthal
Rejoicing in your pain!
Mate – you must recall the jersey
That was shredded into rags
Then the soothing sting of Dettol
On a back engraved with tags!
It’s almost worth admitting
Though with some degree of shame
That your wife was right in asking
Why the hell you played the game?
Why you’d always rock home legless
Like a cow on roller skates
After drinking at the clubhouse
With your low down drunken mates
Then you’d wake up – check your wallet
Not a solitary coin
Drink Berocca by the bucket
Throw an ice pack on your groin
Copping Sunday morning sermons
About boozers being losers
While you limped like Quasimodo
With a half a thousand bruises!
Yes – an urge to hug the porcelain
And curse Sambuca’s name
Would always pose the question
Why the hell you played the game!
And yet with every wound re-opened
As you grimly reminisce it
Comes the most compelling feeling yet
God, you bloody miss it!
From the first time that you laced a boot
And tightened every stud
That virus known as rugby
Has been living in your blood
When you dreamt it when you played it
All the rest took second fiddle
Now you’re standing on the sideline
But your hearts still in the middle
And no matter where you travel
You can take it as expected
There will always be a breed of people
Hopelessly infected
If there’s a teammate, then you’ll find him
Like a gravitating force
With a common understanding
And a beer or three, of course
And as you stand there telling lies
Like it was yesterday old friend
You’ll know that if you had the chance
You’d do it all again
You see – that’s the thing with rugby
It will always be the same
And that, I guarantee
Is why the hell you played the game!

By Rupert McCall

Credit: Sutton & Epsom Bs

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