Poster Profile 56: simquin

By Prof
September 27 2004

Board Name:simquin
Age:32
Location:Wimbledon
Occupation:Journalist
Why did you choose your board name?:Contraction of my first name and Harlequins
How long have you been supporting Quins?:Around 27 years
How did you start supporting Quins?:My dad took me along when I was four or five years old and I stuck with them. Tho’ with some of the bleaker years in recent times, I may have done something to offend him ; )
If you play(ed) rugby what position did/do you play?:Started at 7, moved to 6
Best ever Quins game:Hmm, have to say any game when we beat Leicester (or Bath or Wasps). Recently, the Parker Pen final
Favourite off pitch Quins experience:Seeing Scamble embarrass my wife by getting Andre over to talk to her!
What is the most ridiculous rugby related thing you have done?:Play a game on the wing (!) in Paris after drinking ‘til 3am that day
Favourite Ground (after The Stoop):Thomond Park
Favourite Quins Player:All-time? Toss-up between Winterbottom and Jase. Currently, spose Vossy
Favourite Non-Quins Player:Richard Hill
Most likely to say?:Yeah I’ll have a pint
Least likely to say?:Leicester always play within the laws
What are your non-rugby pastimes?:Guitar playing, drawing, reading, looking amazed at our gorgeous baby girl, Rowan
Favourite Film(s):The Wicca Man, Quadrophenia, Blade Runner, Dogma, Matter of Life and Death, Great Escape, Donnie Darko…
Favourite TV Programme(s):Inspector Morse, Spaced, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, Have I got News for You, Drop the Dead Donkey, House of Cards, Robin of Sherwood, Ultraviolet, Time Team, some of the stuff on Toonami
Favourite Book(s):Round Ireland with a Fridge, The Pendragon Cycle, The Ipcress File, any book by Phil Rickman, Inspector Morse, currently reading part 2 of the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, American Gods, The English by Paxman, London…
Favourite Music:Too eclectic anything from classical to industrial for me
Favourite Food(s):Curry, Chinese, Italian
Favourite Drinks(s):Abbot Ale, London Pride, Liefe Blond, Castle, a good SA red wine
Favourite Quotation(s):We are all of us lying in the gutter, but some of are looking at the stars
Favourite Place(s) to visit:Cornwall, Rome
When you were young what did you want Jim to Fix for you?:To go to the Star Wars film set
Tell us THREE things about yourself that we wouldn't know.
BUT, TWO of these should be true,
but ONE should be totally made up:
1. I was in a Level 42 video
2. I once punched Chesney Hawks
3. I was in Fresh Fields

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