Bouch - Jim Rowark's favourite player. Bouch in action in Manila, 2005. Top: Bouch in
hot pursuit of someone who looks certain to be a little quicker. Bottom: Bouch flaps at a lineout while your correspondent tries to put his head where it should not go.
hot pursuit of someone who looks certain to be a little quicker. Bottom: Bouch flaps at a lineout while your correspondent tries to put his head where it should not go.
Yes, it's meet the Old Boys with Broony again. This time we meet Jim Rowark, a stalwart of the Club whose image appears in nearly every 1970s, 1980s and 1990s team photograph in the tunnel and a commonsense Englishman - the first among this crop of middle-aged delinquents.
Name: Jim Rowark
Age: Younger than springtime
Occupation: Retired
Nationality: English
Rugby Position: Flanker (or as it was called when I played, “wing forward”)
Years at Club: 30 plus
Previous Rugby Clubs: Old Thornensians, Cambridge University, Redruth
Favourite thing about HK rugby: Touring with good friends and listening to Foley, both are highly amusing.
Current favourite Club player and why: Bouch. Never a dull moment watching Bouch, ranging from tragedy to comedy.
Most embarrassing spectating rugby experience? 1998 England v Australia at Brisbane. Score England 0, Australia 76. I was at the Park Hotel, Manila in the company of Woots, Burgess and sundry other Australian “gentlemen”. Morgs and I refused to leave our room.
Wanchai or Manila? Hard to decide. However, Manila on “The Wootten” is very hard to beat.
Sequins Corner or the Sportsman’s? Sequin’s Corner. There are plenty of characters in the "older we get the better we were" category, which makes for interesting commentary on the day’s events.
HKFC 10s or the HKRFU 7s? Not wanting to appear disloyal to the Club (I did play/coach the Club team in the inaugural 10s) but the 7s has a special place in my rugby memories
Drinks with Woots or shopping with the wife? The latter is safer and only marginally more expensive but nowhere near as much fun.
Marilyn Monroe or Sophia Loren? I have always been an admirer of the sultry, Mediterranean looks of Sophia Loren but Marilyn Monroe could always come on as an “impact player” when Sophia began to tire.
Age: Younger than springtime
Occupation: Retired
Nationality: English
Rugby Position: Flanker (or as it was called when I played, “wing forward”)
Years at Club: 30 plus
Previous Rugby Clubs: Old Thornensians, Cambridge University, Redruth
Favourite thing about HK rugby: Touring with good friends and listening to Foley, both are highly amusing.
Current favourite Club player and why: Bouch. Never a dull moment watching Bouch, ranging from tragedy to comedy.
Most embarrassing spectating rugby experience? 1998 England v Australia at Brisbane. Score England 0, Australia 76. I was at the Park Hotel, Manila in the company of Woots, Burgess and sundry other Australian “gentlemen”. Morgs and I refused to leave our room.
Wanchai or Manila? Hard to decide. However, Manila on “The Wootten” is very hard to beat.
Sequins Corner or the Sportsman’s? Sequin’s Corner. There are plenty of characters in the "older we get the better we were" category, which makes for interesting commentary on the day’s events.
HKFC 10s or the HKRFU 7s? Not wanting to appear disloyal to the Club (I did play/coach the Club team in the inaugural 10s) but the 7s has a special place in my rugby memories
Drinks with Woots or shopping with the wife? The latter is safer and only marginally more expensive but nowhere near as much fun.
Marilyn Monroe or Sophia Loren? I have always been an admirer of the sultry, Mediterranean looks of Sophia Loren but Marilyn Monroe could always come on as an “impact player” when Sophia began to tire.
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Just doing some research on Jim Rowark for my facebook school group as one of my facebook friends was head-boy at the now defunct Truro Cathedral school in Cornwall and mentioned that he played rugby against Jim while in Hong Kong back in the mid-80's.Jim Rowark was a history teacher & housemaster there for a time during the mid-1970's.
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