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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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.
becomes business managing playing reached resources season
Now that we have reached the business end of the season managing our playing resources becomes even more important.
bring guys people playing pushing starters stay
We were able to bring a lot of people off the bench. We were able to stay fresh. We have a lot of guys pushing our starters for playing time.
guys playing trusting
The guys started trusting each other more. We started playing as a team.
attitude games guys last mind nobody people played playing respects role seed thinks underdog won
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.
again couple days definitely district few games hard mean till tough wins wrapped
I know we wrapped up the No. 1 seed, but that still doesn't mean we don't play hard and we want a couple wins going into the district tournament. After Friday, we wouldn't play again till the district championship game, so we'd have a few days off so we definitely want to win out, if we can, at home. I mean, they're going to be two tough games back-to-back.
either knew surprise
I knew we were pretty athletic, but I thought we would either take our lumps or surprise people. We've done both.
establish trying
It's still early. We're still trying to establish some things.
ball consistency defense share
Everyone contributes on our team. We share the ball and have started to play defense with more consistency and aggressiveness lately.
basic build charter fun half lab media technology weird
The basic charter is, is there something about new technology that we at the Media Lab can give to play? ... Half the charter is to build things that are weird and fun and kind of nutty.
apology attorney came expressing letter memory motion serves turn wheels
The attorney who put the wheels in motion for the garnished wages, if memory serves me, was Gregory A. Benoit. A letter of profuse apology from Mr. Benoit came to me after I contacted him in writing expressing my displeasure with the turn of events.
backs blocking blocks ends good great job lead point ran running spring tight
That got us out of a hole. We had some good blocks by Devin Hudson, Brandon Casteel and T.J. Casteel to spring him. All of our running backs ran hard. Our lead blockers, linemen and tight ends did a great job of blocking at the point of contact.
deep dug turning
Once he commits to something, there's no turning back for him. He dug deep today.
club coaching leeds love perception quite team time tony
I love to see Tony doing so well at Leeds because, when I was coaching in England, and particularly during my time at Hull, they were always the team everyone hated, ... The perception was of Leeds being the millionaire club who never quite did it.