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2002 Phil De Glanville


Phil de Glanville or “Hollywood to his mates! Phil played his senior rugby for Bath RFC playing 189 times and notching up 250 points. During his 12 years at Bath he captained them to a league and cup double in 1989. His international career with England spanned 7 years with 38 appearances and 40 points.

2003 Jeff Probyn


Jeff Probyn or Pot Belly Bagpus as he is known in Hong Kong, The Askeans, Streatham and Wasps prop was selected in England's squad for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, but Probyn did not make his international debut until 1988, at the age of 31, against France. Left out of the 1993 Lions squad which toured New Zealand, Probyn toured South Africa with a World XV in 1989, and was a member of the Wasps FC side which won the English Courage league in 1990. Along with Stuart Barnes, Wade Dooley, Mike Teague, Peter Winterbottom and Jon Webb, Probyn wore the England shirt for the last time in a 17-3 defeat by Ireland at Lansdowne Road in 1993. In total, he won 37 caps for England and scored 3 tries.

2004 John Bentley

John Bentley or “Bentos” to his mates. Originally a Union player, he made his England debut against Ireland in 1988 aged 21 and played on the summer tour against Australia.After training as a policeman he then turned his back on Union which was then an amateur-only game, and played professional rugby league. He played for Great Britain at league and signed for Leeds, before moving on to Halifax, as well as enjoying a short spell in Australia with Balmain Tigers.
When Rugby Union turned professional, he signed for Union side Newcastle Falcons in 1996, helping the side to their first and so far only Premiership title. He was then selected for the 1997 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, where he played in the second Test, playing opposite James Small.After the tour he played twice more for England at Rugby Union before switching back to League with Huddersfield Giants.

2005 Joe Bugner

He was a boxer!

2006
2007 Gavin Hastings


Gavin Hastings OBE (born 3 January 1962) is a former Scotland rugby union player. He is frequently considered one of the best, if not the best, rugby player to come out of Scotland.His nickname is "Big Gav".

Hastings was born in Edinburgh. He has played for Watsonians, London Scottish, Cambridge University, Scotland and the British and Irish Lions and was one of the outstanding rugby union players of his generation, winning 61 caps for Scotland, 20 of which as captain. He played fullback, and captained the Lions on the tour to New Zealand in 1993 (after playing in all three tests in the 1989 tour to Australia).

 

John Bentley - Master Of Ceremonies
2008 Tim Stimpson


Stimpson was educated at Silcoates School, Wakefield. In 1992, he went to the University of Durham, where he studied anthropology at Grey College, graduating in 1995.

He went on the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa and would have played in the tests as first choice full back were it not for the better goal-kicking of Neil Jenkins that would be crucial to the Lions' series victory.

He fell out with Newcastle's management and Rob Andrew, during the 1997–98 season and did not make many appearances for them, signing at the end of the year for Leicester Tigers. After the retirement of Joel Stransky he became Leicester Tigers' principal goalkicker.
In 2003 he was rumoured to be linked to French club Perpignan despite having time left on his contract at Leicester. Despite initial denials from Tigers' management, he did sign and moved to France after the 2003 World Cup, Tigers releasing him from his contract. However, he failed to play for Perpignan and in 2004 returned to England to play for Leeds Tykes. He decided to retire from playing for Leeds Tykes to pursue a career in coaching in January 2006. In the summer of 2006 his services were used by Nottingham Rugby Club, where he presently holds a part time coaching role.
Stimpson won a record five consecutive Premiership titles with Newcastle Falcons and Leicester Tigers.

John Bentley - Master of Ceremonies
2009 Paul Wallace


During his rugby playing career Paul played with UCC, Munster, Blackrock College RFC, before moving to professional club, Saracens whom he played with from 1996 to 2001 before returning Leinster in 2001. He played at international level with Ireland and the British and Irish Lions, representing Ireland at junior levels before making his full international debut against Japan in the 1995 Rugby World Cup in Bloemfontein to play along side his brother Richard. He went on to win 46 caps for Ireland between 1995 and 2002 His final match for Ireland was against Georgia in a world cup qualifier at Lansdowne Road in September 2002.

Wallace was chosen as a late replacement for Peter Clohessy to tour South Africa with the 1997 British and Irish Lions. He became one of only five members of the tour who played the full duration of all three tests. Paul was a very influential player in the winning of the series, facing Os du Randt in the scrum and was subsequently described by captain, Martin Johnson, as; "My player of the series" with tour manager Fran Cotton regarding him as the cornerstone of the Lions scrum.

 
John Bentley - Master of Ceremonies
2010  George "Dodie" Weir

George Weir started playing rugby for Stewarts Melville RFC, his former school, in Edinburgh. He studies at the Scottish Agricultural College as a HND student from 1988-1991 . He moved to Melrose RFC in the Borders and was part of the team that won six Scottish club championships. Doddie was first capped for Scotland against Argentina in 1990. He suffered a horrific knee injury as a result of foul play while playing for the British Lions against Mpumalanga Province in the 1997 South African tour. Doddie has won 61 Scottish caps and played for Newcastle Falcons. He finished his playing career together with Gary Armstrong at The Borders in 2004.

 
  John Bentley - Master of Ceremonies 
  2011 James Forrester


James Forrester is a former English rugby union player who played at number eight for Gloucester Rugby.

Having played for England U21 he made his England A debut against Wales in Bristol during 2002 and in June of that year also played for an England XV against the Barbarians at Twickenham, scoring a memorable 65 metre try and outstripping Jonah Lomu in the process.

He was also capped by the England Sevens squad in 2002, playing in the opening World Series tournament in Dubai and two others and was man of the match with two tries, when England A thrashed Scotland 78–6 in March 2003.

   
 

2011 Gareth Chilcott

Gareth Chilcott

Gareth"Coochie" Chilcott is a former rugby union player, who played at prop for Bath and 
England.

He made his England debut against Australia in 1984. He toured with the Lions in Australia in 1989, together with Andy Robinson and 
Jeremy Guscott.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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