With the Wanderers Rugby Club celebrating 90 years it's a fitting time to pull out this gem from towards the end of my coaching stint... a highly successful era and year for the Club which prides itself on Club Championship alongside any individual grades success!! Rugby players mostly enjoy running with the ball and we made not only a motto of this but tried really hard to play an attacking brand of footy with the usual 4th Grade blend of youth, experience and dinosaurs!!
At every opportunity in my player coach days I reminded higher grade players that these Grand Final experiences meant just as much to lower grade players. One Presentation Night I did describe lower grade rugby as being like "sex with one arm tied behind your back... it looks kind of familiar but somethings not quite right" It got the appropriate level of laughter and "what did he just say"...
It's a sport, a game played by people of all shapes and sizes and it's full of life lessons. Preparation, teamwork, adversity, injury, different personalities, the contest, handling referees...
I look forward to involvement with the Club again this year in relation to player welfare and helping out with a few aspects of what it means to participate in such a great Club...
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