In my experience with the University Football Club, I have enjoyed immensely the bus trips, team meetings, restaurant trips, boat rides, medal counts and the numerous UFC functions. All of that is part of the camaraderie of the club and represents one of the strongest aspects of our football club.

In addition I have attended weddings, 21st birthdays and one funeral related to the UFC. Those occasions remind me of the fact that the players are not just chess pieces to be moved around a football field in order to gain maximum advantage, but they are flesh and blood human being who will live, study, work, marry, copulate and die either better or worse for their involvement in the UFC. I have enjoyed my association with every player I have coached and hope I will continue to enjoy the friendship of those players in subsequent years. One of the most pleasant traditions that has become established in the dinner parties Jacqui puts on for small groups of players in front of the open fire during the middle of winter. We have enjoyed getting to know players in that non-football context.