Richard begins his ascent of Mount Groggmore!
Well – here we go again, the Six Nations is upon us and the nerves are kicking in. It’s at times like this I find it doubly hard to concentrate on work with customers getting excited about the forthcoming matches. It’s just as well then that I have Mount Groggmore to keep me busy. As you know the votes are in and I have got to grips with the basic shape and size and I am now down to refining the features on some favourite subjects. In the end I think we have the best mix of old and new and I personally wouldn’t argue with any of the choices. Many thanks again for everyone who voted – we had a great response. Gareth was the only certainty but JPR, Neil and Shane have definately earned their place in Rugby history. I do feel a little sad that there is no forward involved – but it’s not our fault that the USA ran out of money whilst creating the original otherwise we could have had 5 or 6 more to choose from!
Anyway it’s starting to come together and should look great in it’s final stone finish. I’m toying with putting a scale model of myself in it to give it some perspective but you would need a microscope to even see me, so maybe not!
One more thing we would like to do as a tribute to our old friend Bill McLaren, is to incorporate on the back of each player a quote from the ‘Voice of Rugby’ referring to them. We already have the quote for Gareth and Neil but if you can help us with JPR and Shane we would be very grateful.
In the meantime the clock is ticking and kick off time is drawing near – good luck to the boys and everything crossed except my busy fingers!
