When I played at Chichester, they bent over backwards for the women’s team.
They were lovely. If you wanted to play on the first pitch, you could if you wanted kit, if you needed more balls, they got everything you wanted. You just asked the manager. I don’t know if it was down to the individuals, but we never had anything negative. At university, slightly different.
I think that was just young men and just the attitude sometimes that they might have. Maybe they’ve grown up a bit now, but I always remember we had some really good players at university who definitely could have gone on to play for England and things like that. And we never seemed to find out about it. We never got told if there was trials. One of my friends he you know, some people stay on after university for a year for like, work for the student union or something.
There’s a guy called Tim, and he looked in a drawer, and there was all these invites from over the years just dumped in a drawer to go for trials, and all all of these players who I played with, and they were brilliant. They could have played representative rugby. Never knew about it. I was so gutted. I know the guy who did it, he didn’t really like the women’s rugby team. He was in charge, and he just didn’t even, didn’t even let us know, didn’t even give us the chance to try. So annoying.
That was the only negative thing I can remember. Yeah, even up the clubhouse, you know, people are, they were all quite open to chat about rugby, and they weren’t just drunk and trying it on with you, like maybe the odd one, but most people, just people who love rugby, Just want to talk about rugby, don’t they?
