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Originally Posted by gobbledygeek
ETA: Feely, I'm assuming you gave up rugby at some point? My cousin's family is huge into rugby, with the dad and his three adult kids all still playing it. Dude was into his early 50s and was still managing to play with his sons. I think it is possible he may have packed it in recently (?), but I still can't believe he lasted 50+.
Course between all of them they've probably had half a dozen knee surgeries.
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I played my last proper game aged 28 just before I moved to Australia .
I got to Sydney and joined one of the top clubs and went through a pre season but my heart wasn’t really in it.
I got my way into the top playing squad of 35 but the guy I had to mark/face up to at training who I would have had to displace in the team was a 6-3/255lb Fijian guy (called Emori Bolo Bolo) who was 5 years younger than me and an absolute weapon and it extremely hard, physical work. (I was 6 foot/185). We’d finish training at 10pm and I’d have to be up at 6.30 to get to work and I just remember it would take me 20 mins in the shower before I could move properly again and I was just sore the whole time.
I had no interest in playing second grade, so said ‘f this’.
I did play in a competitive Touch (non contact) league for a few years and I had started thinking about playing in an over 35s comp and making a run at a representative team, but I did my ACL. That was pretty devastating tbh, not so much physically as mentally and I’d just started my own business and didn’t want to risk the impact on my work