{"id":616,"date":"2010-01-27T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=616"},"modified":"2010-01-27T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:00:26","slug":"donaghadee-player-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/donaghadee-player-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Donaghadee Player of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the generosity of Donaghadee\u2019s Pier 36 Restaurant the town\u2019s rugby football club is able to make an ever-popular presentation each month to the man they consider to have been their Player of the Month.<\/p>\n

For the month of November the award went to David Thompson. All at DRFC know the value of this rugby man. Indeed many outside the seaside town will well remember DT as the rock in the side that won Regent House\u2019s first Schools\u2019 Cup.<\/p>\n

Many other rugby people will know this iron-hard lock, No. 8, prop and even centre-threequarter at UUC and the combined Irish Colleges or from his AIL days at Ards. After a peripatetic year or two, DT fetched up at Donaghadee in 2004. He confesses that in his mind he saw this as the start of a gentle ease into retirement \u2013 but that is not in his character. Give the big man a whiff of wintergreen and he becomes a warrior again \u2013 his powers hardly diminished and his rugby knowledge still growing.<\/p>\n

He has served DRFC well as a player, assistant coach to Cois Beukes and Ian Martindale and council member. In addition, his popularity as a schoolteacher and rugby man, and the respect in which he is held by upcoming young players, has been a great asset to the Donaghadee club. At the presentation in December the club\u2019s Chairman, David Monson, highlighted DT\u2019s performance in Donaghadee\u2019s storming victory in the November Junior Cup win over closest and oldest rivals, Bangor RFC, and emphasised that with Donaghadee this season so much in contention in the Qualifying League and Provincial Town\u2019s Cup as well as in the Junior Cup the performance level throughout the club is exceptionally high with a large number of candidates for outstanding player every month.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s response was typical of the man. \u201cAs I get older I know there are fewer and fewer games left in me, so I enjoy every game and give everything on the pitch as I always have, and perhaps this is why I was given this award, although I would not be a stand out player for this month if it hadn\u2019t been for my team mates around me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thanks to the generosity of Donaghadee\u2019s Pier 36 Restaurant the town\u2019s rugby football club is able to make an ever-popular presentation each month to the man they consider to have been their Player of the Month. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For the month of November the award went to David Thompson. All at DRFC know the value of this rugby man. Indeed many outside the seaside town will well remember DT as the rock in the side that won Regent House\u2019s first Schools\u2019 Cup. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Many other rugby people will know this iron-hard lock, No. 8, prop and even centre-threequarter at UUC and the combined Irish Colleges or from his AIL days at Ards. After a peripatetic year or two, DT fetched up at Donaghadee in 2004. He confesses that in his mind he saw this as the start of a gentle ease into retirement \u2013 but that is not in his character. Give the big man a whiff of wintergreen and he becomes a warrior again \u2013 his powers hardly diminished and his rugby knowledge still growing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He has served DRFC well as a player, assistant coach to Cois Beukes and Ian Martindale and council member. In addition, his popularity as a schoolteacher and rugby man, and the respect in which he is held by upcoming young players, has been a great asset to the Donaghadee club. At the presentation in December the club\u2019s Chairman, David Monson, highlighted DT\u2019s performance in Donaghadee\u2019s storming victory in the November Junior Cup win over closest and oldest rivals, Bangor RFC, and emphasised that with Donaghadee this season so much in contention in the Qualifying League and Provincial Town\u2019s Cup as well as in the Junior Cup the performance level throughout the club is exceptionally high with a large number of candidates for outstanding player every month.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

David\u2019s response was typical of the man. \u201cAs I get older I know there are fewer and fewer games left in me, so I enjoy every game and give everything on the pitch as I always have, and perhaps this is why I was given this award, although I would not be a stand out player for this month if it hadn\u2019t been for my team mates around me.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the generosity of Donaghadee\u2019s Pier 36 Restaurant the town\u2019s rugby football club is able to make an ever-popular presentation each month to the man they consider to have been their Player of the Month. For the month of November the award went to David Thompson. All at DRFC know the value of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[380,382,381,379],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donaghadee","tag-david-thompson","tag-donaghadee-rugby","tag-pier-36-restaurant","tag-player-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}