Full Name: | david everatt |
Playing Position (s): | second/back row |
Playing Years at Selby: | 1976 (the year minis started) to 1999 |
Other teams: | none |
Where are you now? | still watching selby |
What did you enjoy about playing at Selby? | friendships made that have lasted a lifetime |
What did playing rugby teach you? | you got a game if you could play any position and never crossed off |
You need to take a road trip but must take 3 of your team mates with you. Who would they be? | wurzel (to drive), piggy, john leadbetter (5 XV captain after I played colts) |
Who would still come with you, without question? | all of them |
Who was the Selby dressing room joker? | wombat |
Favourite player you’ve watched at Selby: | the bear |
Who would be first to the bar and last to leave? | sam longthorpe |
Why Selby RUFC? | never been anywhere else, dad took me |
Best match you’ve played in? | winning last Selby festival u12s |
Most memorable moment: | winning at twickenham |
Funniest think you’ve seen on a rugby pitch: | Anything john leadbettter said |
Who/what do you miss the most? | not been able to keep playing due to injury |
Favourite quote or words of wisdom: | father on leaving school and going to work for/with him aged 16. “I don't care where you go what time you get in as long as you are up for work in the morning oh and i'll come and get you out of the cop shop once” |
Lockdown perception: | great carrying coal and farming -key worker |