Childhood Films

[Diving Daisy]

Bloody Arnold school! Everytime we played them at rugby, it was the dirtiest match of the season

[Odin]

Originally Posted by AirAssisted

Bloody Arnold school! Everytime we played them at rugby, it was the dirtiest match of the season

Got to agree, but we did beat them!!! 1969!!!

[Mr T.]

Originally Posted by AirAssisted

Bloody Arnold school! Everytime we played them at rugby, it was the dirtiest match of the season

Ah, those were the days!

You didn't play either West Park or Lymm did you? Prancing prima-donnas doesn't cover it. I played against Kev Simms who went on to play for England.

I remember my last match against West Park. I was tight-head agaisnt this monster of a guy (6 foot 7 if he was an inch) who was opposing loose-head and who was filthy in the scrums - biting, punching, kicking, the works. My twin brother was hooker and my mate Eric was second row.

We had this agreed (on-the-nod) 'bind-off' manoeuvre for, cough, 'taking care of' anyone we deemed to be a dirty player.

I'd shout "F*ck the Pig!" (usually one of our line-out calls) and then slightly bind-off from our-kid, which allowed Eric through (the ref had to be on the blind side of the scrum for this, obviously) and then me and our-kid (to mask the 'action') would put the scrum in to a rolling (wheeling) scrum.

Without collapsing the scrum, Eric would then beat the bejesus out of said miscreant before resuming his position and acting like nothing had happened.

The play stopped and this goon was left on the deck with his face in a sling and clutching his ribs. He then got up and smacked me - what could I do? I snotted him back and then sat on him as I proceeded to give him a good hiding.

The ref saw all of this and bollocked him for "picking on a smaller bloke" (I'm only 6 foot ). Play was resumed and we all shook hands at the whislte at game's end. All was laughs and back-slapping back in the bar later.

[Odin]

I did get sent off!
I was scrum half, grabbed the ball from the kickback, starting running like stink. Sidesteped their fullback who then just put his arm out at the right height for my nose to connect! Ba**ard!
And I got sent off!!! The Ref said it was for using disgusting language (it was an inter-school match) but he did tell me quietly it was to stop me killing this bloke during the rest of the game.
But the boys did me proud and "sorted" him in a scrum - he apolgised to me later in a bit of a squeeky voice!

Aahhh!!! Memories...

[Diving Daisy]

Didn't play those schools Bren....
One particular match that brings back fond memories was against Fleetwood high, both captains got sent off for scrapping, 'nellie' one of the wingers had his ear nearly ripped off, it was still attached by the earlobe... but little else

And I had a finger broken (another one) dring a line out!
Such happy memories......

[Special K]

In Dorset we were made to watch a farm safety video named `Ten little indians`,
It was about ten kids playing cowboys and indians on a farm.(I hope you`re keeping up).
All bar one dies in a variety of unlikely but gruesome farmyard accidents including:
1, Drowning in a vat of shite.
2,A tractor rolling over his head when one carelessly lets the handbreak off.
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,

I`ve done this very YD style, but I can`t remember all of them, has anyone seen this and can fill in the gaps.
We used to have to watch it every year just before summer hols.
It certainly made reckless farmyard fun that bit more enjoyable.

[NeilB]

Ah...now, we did play West Park but not Lytham.
Being from an Liverpool inner city school we were a bit hard up for a playing field so we used to practise on the concrete school yard. As a prop as well it was considered 'bad form' to collapse the scrum but it happened on occasion...made me the man I am today.....well at least the scarred parts anyway.

Used to beat West Park back then as well. The team we had was good and several of us went on to represent the county (myself included).

Dirtiest game I ever played was against Merseyside Police and we lost because our number 8 was a bit thick. He came out of the back of a ruck 5 meters from our line and gave the ball a kick. Unfortunatley he had not noticed that he facing the wrong way! The ball bounced off the posts and back into the hands of their winger who stepped over the line to score. Gave them a 1 point lead 10 mins before the whistle

Oh...the good old days...sitting in the bath after the game and watching the bruises appear, drinking several pints and then realising you are not sure where you are or how to get home.

Rambling now.......

[Ian@1904]

Originally Posted by AirAssisted

Bloody Arnold school! Everytime we played them at rugby, it was the dirtiest match of the season

You should have played their badminton team. It was marginally safer

[Mr T.]

Originally Posted by Special_K

In Dorset we were made to watch a farm safety video named `Ten little indians`,
It was about ten kids playing cowboys and indians on a farm.(I hope you`re keeping up).
All bar one dies in a variety of unlikely but gruesome farmyard accidents including:
1, Drowning in a vat of shite.
2,A tractor rolling over his head when one carelessly lets the handbreak off.
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,

I`ve done this very YD style, but I can`t remember all of them, has anyone seen this and can fill in the gaps.
We used to have to watch it every year just before summer hols.
It certainly made reckless farmyard fun that bit more enjoyable.

Aye, we were all corralled into the school's hall and made to sit and watch the very same film. Not long before the long summer break, if memory serves, as a 'what not to get up to whilst you're on the long summer break' message.

[Steve S]

We were not allowed to play Rugby at our school due to a poor kid being crippled in a match so Derbyshire deemed it to dangerous, so I didn't discover the beautiful game until I was 18.

The league in which we played had a lot of the Notts coal miners sides and we had some wonderful ding dongs including one where the ref sent off both sides en-bloc a first

One of the dirtiest sides we ever played was sudbury open prison although sadly they never turned up for away matches it was like being in a school yard scrap with donkey jacketed inmates ringing the pitch baying for blood ironically the dirtiest bas***d on their side was a prison officer

Safe diving,
Steve.