Annan Player Profiles

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The Backs The Forwards Ex-Players and Backroom Boys
Paul Anderson
Philip Bertram
James Bingham
Jonny Callaghan - new
Mark Clark - new
David Copland
Craig Coupland
Ewan Currie
Duncan Fisher
Alastair Graham
Barry Graham
David Graham
Michael Griffin
Alex Halliday
Wullie Harrison
Jordan Holliday - new
Callum Jamieson
Andrew Jancey
Neil Latimer
Kyle Laurie
Scott McCann
Camerson McEwan
Scott Nicholson
Andy Render
Niall Smith
Gary Williamson
Mark Anderson
Callum Bell
Neil Bell
Darren Brooke
Gordon Brown
John Carlyle
Paul Carruthers
Gary Coupland
Jonathan Crombie
James Gilmour
Nicholas Graham - new
William Gray
Adam Halliday - new
Neil Halliday
Jamie Harrison
Billy Henderson
Darren Irvine
Steve Jancey
Gareth Johnson
Neil MacGregor
Scott MacLean
Neil Moffat
Callumn Nicholson
Paul O'Donnell
Graham Smith
Ian Thorburn
Jack Tinning
Jim Tweedie
Colin Warrick
Sean Woodhouse
Bob Currie
Jim Gibb
Mark Hollis
Shaun McGauchie
Paul Minto
Gary Ross
Eric Thomson
Andrew White
Kenny White
 
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Ewan Currie

Ewan 'Bobs Fat Brother' Currie



Nickname: Bob's Fat Brother

Position: Full Back/Center/Stand Off

Favourite Player: Babe Graham

Favourite Rugby Moment: Scoring 5 tries in a game for the school, don't know who we were playing or why, but I scored 5 tries, all me. Hooray

Most Embarrassing Moment: First time at senior training; when everyone realised how lazy slow and unbob like I really am.

Extra Info: My dad looks like Ned Flanders



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Neil Latimer

Neil 'Hairy' Latimer



Nickname: Hairy, Victor

Position: Stand Off, Centre, Scrum Half, Full Back

Favourite Player: Boss Hogg, The Bat

Favourite Rugby Moment: The crack, the Tours, Crianlaric railway station, Kirkaldy games with the 2"s, winning, Ers' team talks, the feeling in the pit of your stomach just before kick off.

Most Embarrassing Moment: Lets just say it involved lager, sit ups, vodka, tequilla, star jumps, watermelon,squats, more tequilla and more tequilla. And Sleep!

Extra Info: Back in the Border League days once had post match meal in the wrong Clubhouse.



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Darren Irvine

Darren 'Del' Irvine



Nickname: Del

Position: Prop

Favourite Player: Paul Minto & Cash

Favourite Rugby Moment: Playing my first full game for the 1st team when we won, resulting in the relegation of Langholm.

Most Embarrassing Moment: When I played for Crichton and was put on my arse by Cash. (I had already done the same to him but I also came away with the ball!)



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James Gilmour

James 'Lector' Gilmour



Nickname: Lector/Nelly or Mr Gilmour to young ones

Position: tight head prop and 1st in line in the bakers in the morning

Favourite Player: Jim Gibb/Neil Halliday

Favourite Rugby Moment: Texas tour against Austin and the training for the tour cause the crack was good everybody helping each other out!!

Most Embarrassing Moment: Being sent off numerous times but the 1st time against Stewartry was the worst

Extra Info: I am the pie eating king !!! Mmmm Johnstone pies !!! Carol go to the butchers!!



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Shaun McGauchie

Coming Soon



Nickname: No one calls me it to my face!

Position: 10 where-else?

Favourite Player: Andy Render

Favourite Rugby Moment: The kangaroo court in Toronto, watching James Mason search for his teeth, watching Babe swerve that chair + Tosh + Hairy train in Dallas

Most Embarrassing Moment: Being beaten on a 3 mile run by Jim Tweedie 'til a visit to the docs told me I had a collapsed lung

Extra Info: Keep playing as long as you can cause it sucks watching



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Barry Graham

Barry 'Duk Bum' Graham



Nickname: Baza

Position: Scrum Half

Favourite Player: Sean Buckley/Jevs

Favourite Rugby Moment: Rugby tours to Texas, Canada and Wales

Most Embarrassing Moment: Escorting Colin Warrick after his 21st birthday. Andy Render and I had to see things that no one should have to see!

Extra Info: Looking for compensation from Billy Henderson. I have a sore neck from looking at him behind me at training



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Paul Minto

Paul 'Tosh' Minto



Nickname: Tosh

Position: Back Row

Favourite Player: All ex-St Columbas players

Favourite Rugby Moment: The Scott Bonner side step, Pup Wylie's hydraulics, Halliday mauling, Gog's dummies, Shaun McG's left boot, A. Render's tackle v Langholm this season, the consolation try v GHK, Jim Twigg winning player of the year, Johnny L wasting Gary Waite, Scott Nichol halfing Billy H (ouch!), that night in Swansea Uplands clubroom, singing hi-ho with the bottles in the bar at the Beaches in Toronto, Hairy's bruise, Clannie's lip, that game v Heriots seconds, the selkirk colts 7 in 1981 or 2, that bar in Dallas that sold Belhaven.....

Most Embarrassing Moment: Being a South supporter when the All Blacks gubbed them by 70 points in 92 or 93

Extra Info: Life is not a dress rehearsal



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Philip Bertram

Philip 'Bertie' Bertram



Nickname: Bertie

Position: Ex-Winger, Ex-Treasurer, Touch Judge, Committee Member

Favourite Player: Andy Render & Tam Thorburn

Favourite Rugby Moment: Winning the league with the 2nds in 2002/03 and scoring 2 tries that season! Hardly missing any training sessions for over 2 seasons-man that felt good!

Most Embarrassing Moment: Where to start-breaking my arm, giving speech as treasurer using 'Emmm' every 2nd word, dropping the ball, not being able to keep up with Neil Chalmers when he broke away during a game-if I'd stuck with him I'd have scored but he is deceptively quick! Gus, I need more space here!

Extra Info: I'm sure there's more people could add! But I was proof that if you train hard then the selectors will pick you and you enjoy the game a lot more as well!



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Jim Tweedie

Jim 'Twig' Tweedie



Nickname: Twig

Position: 2nd Row

Favourite Player: Dougie Thomson

Favourite Rugby Moment: Beating Allan Glens at the Weyroc to win the first league title for Annan 2nds.

Most Embarrassing Moment: Injuring Onny in the warm up before a league game against Cartha Queens Park 2nds.

Extra Info: Keep playing as long as you can boys, because as somebody once said to me 'You're a long time no playing'



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Bob Currie

Bob 'Bob' Currie



Nickname: Bob

Position: No 7

Favourite Player: Keith Hogg

Favourite Rugby Moment: Winning Selkirk junior 7s 2002, and beating Langholm to relegate them

Most Embarrassing Moment: Camsublang 1998 Bus trip home

Extra Info: Is Olly Alcock playing at the club this New Year?



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Jamie Harrison

Jamie 'Haribo' Harrison



Nickname: Haribo

Position: No 8

Favourite Player: Bob Copland

Favourite Rugby Moment: Scoring 21 tries in 10 games and bieng the highest points scorer in the club at the end of the under 15's league.

Most Embarrassing Moment: Getting the ball punched out of my hands almost over the try line from behind,on two occasions in the same game.



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Ian Thorburn

Ian 'Tam' Thorburn



Nickname: Tam The Bat

Position: Back Row/2nd Row

Favourite Player: Anyone I've ever played with - and that's just about all of them!

Favourite Rugby Moment: Beating any bastards - especially the ones from Hawick, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Ayrshire, Fife, England, Langholm, Dumfries,Stewartry,........

Most Embarrassing Moment: I've never been embarrased to play for the Yellows!!

Extra Info: can name the team for any fixture from Annan's history, tell you the score, the ref's name and what was number one in the popular music hit parade of the time was!!



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Duncan Fisher

Coming Soon



Nickname: Fish, Fisher

Position: anywhere like!

Favourite Player: Minto or Billy. You've gotta appreciate the banter on the field lads!

Favourite Rugby Moment: Smashin' sum guy against Dalziel last year before k'o'ing myself!

Most Embarrassing Moment: Gettin totally smashed in my first ever game for the 1's against Stewatry!

Extra Info: Keep goin at it lads got f*%k all to worry about!



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Andy Render

Andy Render

Nickname: Err....Andy !!!

Position: Center, Wing, Hooker, Back Row.......

Favourite Player: Tam 'the bat'

Favourite Rugby Moment: Murrayfield 2003

Most Embarrassing Moment: Having a brandy or two too many at Corstorphine and falling for Billy's 'there's a phone call for you' routine!

Extra Info: Apparently I'm the club's fourth best hooker ever after Puj, Jack Thompson and Bruno - no bad for a centre!!



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Jack Tinning

Jack 'Slevery' Tinning



Nickname: Slevery

Position: On the Door/Prop

Favourite Player: Don't Know - don't mix with them

Favourite Rugby Moment: Starting a fight in every game i've ever played in

Most Embarrassing Moment: Losing most of the fights I start

Extra Info: I'm misunderstood. I have got a girlfriend and she is real it's just a co-incidence that none of you have ever seen her

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