Brian Smith
Brian Smith
Formerly played for South Sydney from 1975 to 1979 and is best known as the coach of teams like the Illawarra Steelers and Parramatta Eels.
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth14 March 1954
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It's been a real blast. We're loving (this trip), but we're focused on a goal.
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There will be a couple of changes due to bumps and bruises but basically it?s the same side.
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This is great news for the club. In my opinion, Bob is one of the best locks in the Guinness Premiership.
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The whole day I was thinking we had to win. You're going to lose sometimes. I know this team will bounce right back.
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Five of our guys have a state finalist or returning state champion in their weight.
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Ryan Strudwick is an exceptional rugby player and person. I knew of him long before I came to London Irish and was aware of the high regard with which he is held throughout the professional rugby playing community in this country and abroad. He has been a remarkable servant of London Irish over the past eight years and ranks among the great ambassadors of the club and the game. While there will be an opportunity to say a proper farewell before he leaves at the end of the season I want to take this opportunity to express publicly the gratitude of the directors, management, players and supporters for all he has done.
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I came back wanting to listen to my elders and talk to others about all that happened in my life.
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The level of incompetence I have had to deal with is unbelievable. I can't describe how disappointed I've been.
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A more appropriate label would be Shiner Lager,
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I've had some other opportunities outside of footy and a couple of them I've been really tempted by, but the bug's still got me at this stage.
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The goal in Trinidad is to give them an opportunity to supply natural gas to this facility. Trinidad as a government and as a country does not want to be treated as a Third World country and get paid only for their gas supply, but wants to take part in downstream investments.
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The guys started trusting each other more. We started playing as a team.
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The guys have played with the attitude (that) nobody really respects them and nobody really thinks they can win. We don't mind playing the underdog role and I think there's a lot of people that thought we were the underdog at the 4 seed and we shouldn't have been seeded fourth, and that's fine. Those are people's opinions, but we've won 16 of our last 18 games right now and we're just on a roll.
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The main thing is that we got the kids through to next week. We're in a good spot right now.