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Surname	First names	Known by
Skudder	Shayde P		view
Slater	Andrew William	Andy	view
Slater	Gordon Leonard		view
Sloane	Peter Henry		view
Sloper	Roslyn David	David	view
Smith	Aaron Luke		view
Smith	Alan Edward		view
Smith	Ashley Brent		view
Smith	Benjamin Robert	Ben	view
Smith	Bruce Fuller		view
Smith	Christopher John	Chris	view
Smith	Conrad Gerard		view
Smith	Elliot J M		view
Smith	Fletcher H		view
Smith	Hadleigh Graham Marshall		view
Smith	Hugh Mair Dunlop		view
Smith	Ian Stanley Talbot	Spooky	view
Smith	Jalana R		view
Smith	Kelvin Muir		view
Smith	P Leighton		view
Smith	Robert Lawrence	Robbie	view
Smith	Warren Thomas		view
Smitheran	John Richard		view
Smylie	Christopher Bradley	Chris	view
Snook	Ian Robert		view
So'oialo	Rodney		view
Soakai	Alando Tokaimonu		view
Solomon	Thomas Junior	Tom	view
Soper	Steven G		view
Sorenson	Neil Andrew	Sos	view
Spencer	Fabian K		view
Spice	Jason Edward		view
Spillane	John Vivian Paul		view
Stack	Brian Joseph		view
Stafford	Raymond Barry	Ray	view
Staines	John Norman		view
Standen	Joshua Wayne	Josh	view
Stanley	Benson Joel		view
Stanley	Joseph Tito	Joe	view
Stent	Trevor Leonard Austin		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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