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I've been only a fill-in the last few years as I continued my quest to bring the club back from the brink of collapse. Now that I've avoided (or at least, delayed) that, this year I'm BACK, BABY!
Have 92 caps for the club, and would have been well over 100 if I'd not taken a hiatus back in 2012-2014. Will probably end up playing hooker and the moulded studs will get me thru to the ton. At that point I might shift my attention more to refereeing and helping address bigger issues in the game.
Have been pushing myself at training 1.5 sessions a week (have to leave early on Wednesdays) but really enjoying it.
Like you, the social aspect I think I need despite very much enjoying the WFH situation with COVID. And this year I'll enjoy a few beers after the game a bit more than I was.
I'll be 45 in June and I reckon that's around the time I start to think about retiring - but there is a complete dickhead who racked up 123 caps through various dodgy means years ago, and I think I need to knock him out of 4th place on the club's all-time.
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
How old are you Womble? And how long since you played? Where? When? Who? How?
just turned 40 earlier in the year, have been the oldest during the pre season but ive noticed a few older blokes rocking up this week now we have games, another one tonight means i'll bloody miss the Landers v Chiefs live
Hadn't played proper XV's since Uni...so 2000 ish...just couldn;t commit to training and games plus uni and work...and then after uni i left dunners and without the inherent connection to a club i just never went back
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@kiwiwomble said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
How old are you Womble? And how long since you played? Where? When? Who? How?
just turned 40 earlier in the year,
A veritable youth!
I'm just there this year to throw lineouts, hook scrums, and cover rucks. All the other nonsense can be left to the big lads half my age who think they've invincible.
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@nta yeah, have to say training with these guys in their 20's has been full on...but i really needed it
I've also developed a new respect for 20 year old me, i look back and think i was a bit of a fat kid that payed front row but i must have been fitter than i thought...just with the fat on top
also, the idea of a big night on the piss after working all day and then playing a game tonight....sounds exhausting!...might fake in injury in the last minute so i can at least sit down
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@kiwiwomble I hadn't been down in a few years and pissed myself when I heard one of the more senior players saying he was managing his body, because he's older at 32.
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@kiwiwomble said in Happiness Scale:
@bones it has been pretty funny this week with some of these guys coming in with the big inspirational speeches....and im like where were you a month ago when we were running shuttles in 40 degrees
Not to sidetrack too much, but we did a warmup the other night called "I Can't Feel My Legs":
Stand on one tryline and do 50 squats then 20 lunges per leg.
Run to the other tryline.
Walk back.
That's 1 set. Do 3 sets in totalNow, the young guys all went red hot on that Monday, and Wednesday they could still barely walk. Myself and another mid-40s front rower eased our way into it, and stretched the next day. Kicked their arse Wednesday night
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there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
Do it like @NTA and it looks like a breeze...
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
Particularly not in Sweatsville, QLD. Fuck ALL of that humidity.
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@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
Particularly not in Sweatsville, QLD. Fuck ALL of that humidity.
becasue of the stupid structure of the season we used to start rep preseason in October, and go right through summer
it sucked. like, so much
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
Particularly not in Sweatsville, QLD. Fuck ALL of that humidity.
becasue of the stupid structure of the season we used to start rep preseason in October, and go right through summer
it sucked. like, so much
That's why you're so skinny. Imagine, if @NTA lived up your way, he would probably be 85kgs and playing #9....
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
Particularly not in Sweatsville, QLD. Fuck ALL of that humidity.
becasue of the stupid structure of the season we used to start rep preseason in October, and go right through summer
it sucked. like, so much
That's why you're so skinny. Imagine, if @NTA lived up your way, he would probably be 85kgs and playing #9....
hence why i had to eat so much to stay at 95kg. and drink about 10 litres of water a day
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
Particularly not in Sweatsville, QLD. Fuck ALL of that humidity.
becasue of the stupid structure of the season we used to start rep preseason in October, and go right through summer
it sucked. like, so much
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
there is absolutely no part of preseason i miss.
Particularly not in Sweatsville, QLD. Fuck ALL of that humidity.
becasue of the stupid structure of the season we used to start rep preseason in October, and go right through summer
it sucked. like, so much
That's why you're so skinny. Imagine, if @NTA lived up your way, he would probably be 85kgs and playing #9....
hence why i had to eat so much to stay at 95kg. and drink about 10 litres of water a day
My thighs are chafing just thinking about it.
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...so...my midlife crisis has ended with a blown mcl and acl...And a suspiciously understanding wife
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