Tell us about your rugby prowess at that school, if you would.

Well, I had a strange relationship to rugby, actually, because I'm, as is pretty obvious, and I still am, I'm fairly small, and I wouldn't be used as the ball these days, frankly.

But in those days, when there were still sort of diminutive, especially Welsh fly halves, like Cliff Morgan knocking around, there were heroes to have, and you weren't penalised quite so much for being a certain size but you were typecast and I remember this very well actually that in one game when I was really quite young one of my first times that I'd actually got somewhere and put into a sort of house team I was typecast as being a hooker.

And again, back in the 50s, you know, a hooker would be a small person, a scrum half would be a small person, and even possibly a fly half.

But I was put in as a hooker, and I actually played a couple of games in my house in that.

And, you know, I was trying to convince people that this was not my position, basically, that I just got sort of... squashed around and i didn't really know what to do and i thought if i have anything it was a certain amount of elusiveness and i really ought to be in the back um so eventually i got my there that's right after that one and they're all right then uh and tried me at scrum half which again you know the type casting small must be a scrum half and again i said no this isn't me and i really feel out to be outside somewhere running and I finally got into quite a big representative game at school and it was a terrible this was one of the most awful things without a doubt that's ever happened to me in my life was I was put in the team and I was playing on the wing which suited me fine okay playing on the wing in big house tournament and then after and one of our players hadn't turned up, that's right, one of our players hadn't turned up, or was, as it turned out, late, and a sort of substitute was rapidly shoved on in his place.

Then after about, we'd been playing about ten minutes, and the player who hadn't turned up did, and he was, you know, somebody you simply had to play if he was available, and so he was immediately sent on, and instead of taking the substitute off, they took me off, or the sportsmaster, and it was the most hurtful thing,

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