Don't forget it's World Cup weekend at Billesley beginning on Friday night, we also have the small matter of England v Wales showing in the clubhouse at 8pm on Saturday evening. All welcome.
I can't read the script on the 'World Cup Weekend at Moseley' fly sheet - I haven't been to the club to see due to work - but lest we forget Moseley are playing at Nottingham this weekend, on Sunday. I gather a supporters coach will be going as well. All being well Pam and I along with a couple of friends intend to travel independently because the supporters coach leaves before Sunday church service is finished.
I have also been informed that the Nottingham kick off has been put back by half an hour to 3:30. Will that mean the supporters coach may leave just that little bit later - even after Sunday church service is over??
Going back to the World Cup theme. Did anyone watch the opening ceremony and see our former Moseley captain - I think he was captain - Al Charron? He seemed just as cheerful though a little rounder than when he played for Moseley but it brought back affection memories of him as a lovely, friendly lad with a 'specialists' basket ball style of long distance pass.
I was also impressed with the Moseley contribution to the BBC Panorama programme on rugby head injuries.
I have experience of concussion at rugby but I can only remember some of the incident. About 20 minutes into a game I was chasing a kick up field well behind the opposition. Unfortunately a prop, trundling back from a maul about 5 minutes previously, fielded the ball. I don't remember tackling him but I must have done because all I remember is someone saying to me, "are you ok to go back on now". I asked him what happened and he said I bowled the prop over but didn't get up again. I had clobbered my head against his hip or something else solid. - On it's own that could be an isolated occurrence - these collisions happen but, and a big BUT, it was the following which sticks in my mind. I remember looking at the shirt I was wearing. It wasn't a Moseley shirt. I looked on the field of play, there wasn't a Moseley shirt to be seen. I went on but thought something was odd. I remembered entering the field of play from the changing rooms via a gate at one end of the pitch. And why was that odd one might ask? It was odd because when we kicked off - I don't remember kicking off - but I do remember that the gate was behind me, yet when I went back on it was in front of me. Obviously we were into the second half.
But that is not all. After a couple of minutes the referee blew a long whistle for something or other and everybody traipsed off the field. I was alone on the field wondering what was going on and waiting for the oranges to come out. A player came over to me and asked me if I was OK. I said," why have all the players left the pitch". He said the game was over. I have no idea who won. He said that someone had telephoned me earlier in the week ( match secretaries constantly phones each other seeking loan players ) and asked me if I would help them out seeing that my Moseley team had not got a fixture that weekend.
To this day I can't remember the phone call asking me to play, or the club, or how I got there, neither do I remember how I got back home. I remember crying my eyes out, having a thundering headache and a grey mist before my eyes which lasted for days.
I'm fine now but the Panorama programme brought it to mind and put the symptoms of the incident into a much sharper focus. It has made me think about leaving my brain to rugby concussion research, hopefully after I kick the bucket, rather than before.
In the meantime I still feel more than capable of remembering Moseley is my team and shouting for then at every opportunity - starting with this Sunday at Nottingham.
Come on Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose.
Thank you Phil. I've done that and it worked - but what is a smartphone?
I've got a flat Samsung wotsit phone. It is a mobile telephone and can also receive and send text messages. In addition, I am led to believe that it can do 6,327,000 other things but I haven't got the first idea what they are, what they are for or what to do with them. It is too smart for me, that's for sure, so does that mean it's a smart phone?
Come on Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose
