Old entrance requirements which had screened out all but the most highly qualified were revised to include all those who could be considered qualifiable with standard on-the-job-training.

"We've demonstrated that when push comes to shove, we can be really fast, we can be agile, we can do things more slickly.

The formation can be either: 1) Three players in the front row, four in the second row and one in the third row: loosehead prop, hooker, tighthead prop, flanker, lock, lock, flanker, eighth-man or 2) Three in the front row, two in the second row and three in the back row: loosehead prop, hooker, tighthead prop, lock, lock, flanker, eighth-man, flanker.

I flipped through the wank bank, finally stopping at a love scene starring me and a Bay State Games bronze-medalist pole-vaulter who was in the same Major British Writers study group as me.