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.
great played rugby
Kieron has played some great rugby for us this season.
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Mike has been brilliant for us. He is a Bath boy and there has been a massive interest in him, but if we can keep winning we might convince him to stay here. He has a great rugby intellect and is sure to figure very heavily in the future of English rugby.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once he commits to something, there's no turning back for him. He dug deep today.
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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.
great guys happy job terrific
I'm very happy for him - he's one of the great guys and he will do a terrific job over there.
couple outside tempted
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.