Good Wednesday morning to everyone in the NOBS World, where ever you are. This is a big day for the NOBS RFC. Not just that we are playing our annual fixture against the Staff College, but today we say goodbye to our beloved friend, Mark Radwanski. This morning the Radwanski family, relatives, friends and the rugby world will gather to say goodbye to Mark. This evening we will take time out before the game to pay tribute to Mark and a post-game toast.
Tributes have been pouring in for Mark from people all over. It is quite over whelming. Mark was highly respected as an opponent, treasured as a team mate, and we loved him like a brother.
It wasn’t always this way, how we felt about “Rad”. When he first broke onto the old boys scene, some 17 years ago, he was fresh from the senior men’s league wars, battle hardened. It’s only recently that we discovered he was also captain of the Toronto Saracens! Mark looked like a cross between a lumberjack and Rasputin, with his long matted hair and shaggy beard, and he took no prisoners. To put it bluntly we didn’t like him. He hit like a Mack Truck and growled while scrummaging!
Time has a funny was way of changing things. He was first an opponent, them a fellow tourist, where we learned there was so much more to him, and then a team mate , who when the going got tough, he got going.
We will miss you Mark. Friends through rugby, are friends for life. Da Thug
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