Jonah Lomu and that guy from Neighbours
Posted by deLacey, A long time ago
Dubai
We were met at Dubai airport this morning by former 7s specialist and flyer Gareth “Cooch” Chilcott on behalf of Gullivers Sports Travel, whose hospitality we will be gratefully enjoying over the next few days. After touching down at the hotel we headed straight for the World Cup kick-off press conference at the Atlantis (the big one on the Palm, which opened with Kylie and the world’s biggest fireworks display – standard Dubai fuss). The impressive and somewhat surreal structure is tournament HQ and home to participating teams – all 24 men’s and 16 women’s national sides.
All of the top IRB brass were at the conference, as well as top executives from Emirates Airways, and team coaches and players. It was also fantastic to see the likes of Jonah Lomu in attendance. But what got Robin most animated was the presence of a face that I recognised but couldn’t quite place. It seemed that only Robin and some of the Kenyan press, of all people, knew that it was Stuart Parker from Neighbours – or Blair McDonough in real life.
Blair, who used to play a lot of sevens growing up in Singapore and Australia, is here helping his girlfriend who manages the cheerleading team – flown in from Oz especially for this weekend’s festivities. Can’t be bad..!
The day came to a close with the Gullivers Welcome Dinner. Ian Robertson spoke in a fantastically old school after-rugby dinner stand-up way, telling joke after funny tale after joke in his very familiar Scottish commentary voice.
Ben Gollings was also there to answer a series of questions from Chilcott, giving good insights into the England Team. Interesting that Kenya was the team he highlighted as being who he was most wary of. While inconsistent, they have shown what they can do to the best sides in the world. Imagine what they could achieve with half of the funding, infrastructure and resources that the likes of New Zealand, England and South Arica have. In the meantime, let’s see what they can achieve without it this weekend...
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