{"id":13809,"date":"2011-06-21T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=13809"},"modified":"2011-06-21T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T21:03:00","slug":"proptalk-leslie-george-coleraine-rugby-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/proptalk-leslie-george-coleraine-rugby-club\/","title":{"rendered":"PROPTALK: LESLIE GEORGE ~ COLERAINE RUGBY CLUB"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name:<\/strong> Leslie George.
\nHeight:<\/strong> 1.8m.
\nWeight:<\/strong> 115kg.
\nTight or loose:<\/strong> Loose but played both over the years.
\nClubs:<\/strong> Coleraine Inst & Coleraine Rugby Club for 8 years.
\nHonours:<\/strong> Towns Cup champions, league championship in Q1, Ulster Rugby Schools XV & Ulster Rugby U21 XV.<\/p>\n

When did rugby begin for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started playing at Coleraine Inst at 11 years old. I was a prop right from the start! I did try my hand in the back row for a year due to a neck injury but unfortunately the prop gene is too difficult to remove i.e. I was too slow.<\/p>\n

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Who were the best props\/teams you played against?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Difficult to say who the best prop is I have played against there have been many and I wouldn\u2019t want to admit someone got better of me as a front rower. The hardest games I ever played was on tour in South Africa; we played a Collegians select 15 and it was the most difficult I\u2019ve ever experienced, we also played some pretty tough games against City of Derry 2 years ago when they were promoted back to AIL rugby. <\/p>\n

A memorable moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our towns cup win, it was a last minute charge down and one of your players dived on the ball to win The Towns Cup, I will never forget that although I can\u2019t remember the next 3 days lol.<\/p>\n

What does it feel like to prop?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Its painful! I think its one of the most painful positions, and being a physiotherapist makes me understand that more. For me it means everything, even though I crawl out of bed on a Sunday morning in immense pain, and not just the hangover. I would not swop it for anything else, because the understanding between people who play in the front is a unique connection. Also, its not a position that anyone could try their hand at, the intricacies, the mystery that surrounds it from the point of view of everyone else, the responsibility and pride in a good job, the set piece ball is everything if your not getting it you have no attacking platform so their is a responsibillty on the props shoulders.<\/p>\n

Who is the biggest bandit in Coleraine Club?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steven Dickey, lets just say he is fond of a pint or two and he tends to go MIA returning on monday mornings for work most weeks sometimes it\u2019s a Tuesday!<\/p>\n

Shaved or unshaved?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shaved.<\/p>\n

Beers, wines or spirits?<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of the above.
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Name: Leslie George. Height: 1.8m. Weight: 115kg. Tight or loose: Loose but played both over the years. Clubs: Coleraine Inst & Coleraine Rugby Club for 8 years. Honours: Towns Cup champions, league championship in Q1, Ulster Rugby Schools XV & Ulster Rugby U21 XV. When did rugby begin for you? I started playing at Coleraine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450],"tags":[4719,17234,5786,5785,3503,3959],"class_list":["post-13809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coleraine","tag-club","tag-coleraine","tag-george","tag-leslie","tag-proptalk","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13818,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}