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Date of birth:
2/5/1981
Height:
6' 1
Weight:
16st
Position:
Flanker
Last match:
Boroughmuir, 23/01/2010 |
SPONSOR--Keith Williams
NAME Greg Francis
NICK NAME Franco
AGE 29
DOB 2nd May 1981
BIRTHPLACE Glasgow
HEIGHT 6’ 1”
WEIGHT 16 Stone (and a half…sometimes)
PLAYING POSITION Back-row
YEAR JOINED
GLASGOW HAWKS Hawks: From the beginning as a ‘Young Hawk’.
Old Anniesland: From birth!
OCCUPATION Structural CAD/Revit Technician/3D Modeler
HEROES The old boy!!
HOBBIES Rugby, golf, swimming, scuba diving, horse riding
FORMER CLUBS GHK….although it’s not really a former club!
BEST RUGBY MOMENT Winning the Cup and League double……and the league again the following year……and then again the year after! ‘Mon the Hawks!! J
MUSIC ON YOUR IPOD Andrea Bocelli - Con Te Patrio (Time To Say Goodbye)
FAVOURITE FOOD Breakfast Cereals, Pizza, Curry…….not in the same bowl though!!!
FAVOURITE COLOUR Blue
IDEAL DATE – WHERE & WITH WHOM with my Jenny………anywhere really!!!
FAVOURITE FILM Point Break
FAVOURITE HOLIDAY DESTINATION Egypt - Diving in the Red Sea…..incredible!!
FAVOURITE CARTOON: Jessica Rabbit……. ;)
CHARACTER
RUGBY HONOURS: Glasgow U18, U19, U20, U21. Glasgow Thistles Tour to New Zealand 2000. Scotland U19 & U20’s Squad. Glasgow Warriors 2008 Preseason Tour in the XV Challenge Vaquerin Tournament in France.
Biog:
Hi
I am Greg ‘Franco’ Francis and Old Anniesland has been my life!! I’ve been at OA since I was born – my father played for Glasgow High, as it was then, and then GHK and my mother was one of the legendary GHK Lunch Ladies serving alongside mothers of other OA greats, such as Cammy Little, Muz & Feg Wallace and Big Watty to name a few.
All the greats that have happened at OA over the last three decades – you name it, I’ve probably see it!! I was a ball-boy when Scotland ‘A’ played New Zealand ‘A’ at OA in 1993 and again the following year in 1994 when the Springboks played a Scottish Districts Select. I manned the old score board with team mate and best friend Stephen ‘Chippy’ O’Donnell when the first ever Glasgow Hawks team beat Toulouse at OA in 1998.
I have fond memories playing and training on, the then, ‘Pitch 2’ before the Astroturf pitch replaced it and in Hawks first year when we had massive speakers at the top of the old stand blaring out tunes whenever we scored.
1999 was when I started playing senior rugby at OA and Hawks and played against some true Scottish legends before they retired; Craig Chambers when he went back to Melrose, Big Alan Watt when he played at Currie (and completely trampled me to near death, twice, on the New Anniesland pitch) and George Graham and Doddie Weir when Hawks went down to Newcastle for a preseason game against their ‘development’ side.
I’ve enjoyed being part of every Murrayfield Cup (and Shield) outing, bar the first, that Hawks have played in, winning three times (cup twice and shield once) and losing out twice, as well as been involved in the triple league wins following on from the infamous South Africa 2001 Tour.
And now……….still enjoying every minute of Anniesland Rugby!!
Cheers
‘Mon the Hawks!!
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