Yeah Secretly we all do even though it is so obviously bad, and that is what we will say if asked. But to give you a great Rugby hero and WW2 of mine who I once got to be in the same room with once was Edward "weary" Dunlop who served in the Australian Army as a surgeon but prior to the war he...

... was the first Victorian Wallaby (our state tradiorionally plays Aussie Rules not Rugby) He ended up a POW of the Japanese after the fall of Singapore but as a doctor, despite the inhuman conditions set by the Japanese, kept hundreds of British and Aussie POWs alive...

... He thus became a national war hero, not because he killed, but because he kept people alive. At his funeral 5000 in Melbourne lined his route of buriel and he chose not to be buried in his military uniform but his Wallabies top... Absolute legend.

The reason I mention him here is that during one such match where they went full on to injure opposition, his nose wad broken. At half time he stuck 2 pencils up his nostril and straightened it out and continued playing. Tough bastard!

Absolute legend! I love hearing about these people!

He was special. I regret not approaching him and talking to him when we were at the same event. I was a 20 year old kid in a room full of war veterans, at least 3 ambassadors, 2 VC holders and Dunlop. Just too intimidated at that age.

I’ve told her a couple of Buck Shelford stories 😂😂😂

They were hard men. But to be fair, with longer life expectancies, best it is safer now in Rugby.

They were probably not super into fangirling 🤣