St Peters RFC Cardiff Memories

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Click		Do you have a favourite memory of being at or playing for St. Peter's? With a history as long and rich as ours... the characters we all know ... and have known ... it's got to be worth sharing. Email your story to the club. Can you remember your first/ last game for the club? Were you at the 16 - 14 Cardiff game? Did you watch the final Grand Slam game last year against Ireland at the new club house? Who do you remember? Were you an invincible youth player? Did you play against the Wak Waks? How old were you when you wore the emerald and black for the first time? Have you got a story to tell? Have you got a tour story? No forget that one. Click the player to email your favourite memory. Let's all have a laugh - or cry at the memories we all share. If you don't send an email yourself, let the rest of the members know about the page. Next year is our 120th anniversary. Let's get something to remember. Go on - give it a whirl. However long or short. If its your memory - it's our memory!

		Memories
Paul Barry		Pentyrch V St. Peter's 1982 Scrum on half way line..... Push over try! Dennis McCarthy and Billy O'Keefe had a smile on their faces for weeks
Chris Corsi		Many years ago I was playing scrum half against Whitchurch 2nds away with one of their committee (r)effing (a big fat feller). The 10 yard law at the line out had just come in and the first line out in our 25 the Ref. pulled me for being inside the 10 yards. Dennis Norman was captain playing in the center. Dennis ran in and said to the ref "he's scrum half ref". The ref replied "Is he! then you'll do" and gave the kick smack in front which they duly obliged by slotting it over.
Kevin O'Brien		I went away with the fourths in about 1990 to Westbury on Severn. The game was an annual fixture and there was always a stop-on on the way home so quite a few of the boys tried to get dropped to the fourths to go on that one. I was picked at outside half that day and it was a lovely September day. I kicked off to start the match - a beauty. The ball was up in the air for ages. Peter Sutton, Lawrence O'Brien, Jo Sweeney etc went flying into the Westbury pack and floored the lot. There were English bodies everywhere. A cracking start to the game I thought. The referee - another Englishman I believe gave a shrill blast on his acme thunderer and called the Rocks pack to order. "Gentlemen!" he ordered, "You're not in the Valleys now. You'll play to the laws of the game! And you... " he instructed pointing at me. "Get the ball. We'll start again!" Unbelievable. So we started again. Played to the laws of the game occasionally and beat them about 80 odd nil.
Mike Crocker		I remember, it would have been back in the early 80's, I had broken my wrist in pre-season training and missed the trials and the first 4-5 weeks, I was selected for the fourths or fifths and we were playing in the back of beyond on a little pitch and had to change in a little tin shack. Because it was so cramped a couple of us retreated to the showers to change, I was going through a stretch routine when I heard our boys doing the old 1-10 warm up, feeling guilty i went in to the changing room and apologised to Eugene who was the captain, ''Sorry, Eug'' says I. ''S'okay Crock'' says he, ''do you want to take us through another one. ''OK'' says I thinking, 'i didn't know they were so keen at this level! By the time i got to 3 they had all sat back down clattering their boots on the concrete floor, and bending their little fingers back and forth and led by Eug all smiling smugly as i was going at it like a lunatic. How the mighty had fallen!!
Steve Stewart		I have many great memories of playing for the Rocks over the years however the one thing that sticks in my mind more than anything else is packing down in the scrum behind Rob Ringwood and seeing the pain on the faces of the opposition hookers and props as Rob did his business. What a superb player Robert was and a true unsung hero of a successful side at that time.