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Surname	First names	Known by	AB No,	AB years	AB Games	View
Martin	Rochelle L		57	2005 - 2006	9	view
Masaga	Lelia Tony Corona		1092	2009	1	view
Masoe	Matemini Christopher	Chris	1059	2005 - 2007	20	view
Mata'u	Aotearoa K	Kate	190	2016 - 2017	8	view
Mataele	Mayalin Martha Siulolovao	Martha	255	2023	2	view
Matapo	Kelani P E A		165	2011	1	view
Matheson	Jeffrey David	Jeff	708	1972	13	view
Mathewson	Albert Samuel	Alby	1087	2008 - 2010	5	view
Matson	John Tabalwalu Fakavale	Tabai	950	1995 - 1996	5	view
Mauger	Aaron Joseph Douglas		1013	2001 - 2007	46	view
Mauger	Nathan Keith		1008	2001	2	view
Maxwell	Norman Michael Clifford	Norm	986	1999 - 2004	36	view
Mayerhofler	Mark Andrew		969	1998	6	view
McAlister	Charles Luke	Luke	1057	2005 - 2009	31	view
McCahill	Bernard Joseph	Bernie	884	1987 - 1991	32	view
McCashin	Terence Michael	Terry	674	1968	6	view
McCaw	Richard Hugh	Richie	1014	2001 - 2015	149	view
McCool	Michael John	Mike	795	1979	2	view
McCormick	William Fergus	Fergie	653	1965 - 1971	43	view
McCullough	John Francis		603	1959	3	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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