Poster Profile 57: RobMac

By Prof
September 28 2004

Board Name: RobMac
Age: 25
Location: Watford
Occupation: Train Timetable Planner (please don’t hate me!)
Why did you choose your board name?: Quite boring really, it’s just a shortened form of my name (Robert McCarthy)
How long have you been supporting Quins?: As long as I can remember
How did you start supporting Quins?: I loved the different colours!
If you play(ed) rugby what position did/do you play?: I played at Wing, Fullback or Scrum Half – I’m that nippy small bloke you find in any team!
Best ever Quins game: Has to be the PP cup final last year – the last minute was superb!
Favourite off pitch Quins experience: My first trip to the Stoop (does this count?)
What is the most ridiculous rugby related thing you have done?: Driving a full car load of Welsh supporters to the Wales V England match at Wembley in 1999 when England lost in the last minute. I was shown on TV for a number of seconds with fully painted St. Georges cross on my face and everything! The problem was the journey home! Never again, I travel on my own these days!
Favourite Ground (after The Stoop): I take it we’re talking Rugby here: HQ (or Vicarage Road as it’s only a 2 minute walk away!) If we include any sports ground it would have to be Anfield Road, Liverpool FC
Favourite Quins Player: Will Greenwood
Favourite Non-Quins Player: Richard Hill
Most likely to say?: Where’s the nearest KFC or McDonalds?
Least likely to say?: A few more carrots on my plate please
What are your non-rugby pastimes?: Watching football, listening to music, Air and Railway enthusiast (definitely do NOT own an anorak though! Hopefully I will start a new trend among railway enthusiasts as I wear my Quins fleece hat while I’m enthusing?!)
Favourite Film(s): Pulp Fiction, Tombstone, Goodfellas……. Or anything with Robert De Niro in it!
Favourite TV Programme(s): Friends, CSI (Miami and the original)
Favourite Book(s): Lord of the Rings (lost count of the amount of times I’ve read it); Bravo Two Zero; Jason Leonard’s Autobiography!
Favourite Music: most things, Manic Street Preachers, REM, Madonna, Oasis, The Shadows (got that from my dad!)
Favourite Food(s): Roast Dinners (no veg). Anything with chips and Fajitas
Favourite Drinks(s): Coca Cola – sorry, but it’s the nicest drink out there! Oh, and tea of course. 
Favourite Quotation(s): ‘Minor detail missed equals f*** up guaranteed’ – Andy McNab. ‘I’ll do it now, in a minute’ – My Wife!
Favourite Place(s) to visit: Obviously the Stoop; Any Preserved steam railway; The Flying Legends airshow at Duxford; My parents house.
When you were young what did you want Jim to Fix for you?: Sadly, I am just about old enough to have watched this and I wanted Jim to fix it for me to train and play a game with Liverpool Football Club. Of course at that time Jim must have been pig sick of this and similar requests! Of course I didn’t get my wish – if only I had asked to train with Quins, then maybe he would have fixed it for me!
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’ve witnessed a mid air collision between two aircraft
2. My wife and I said our marriage vows on the footplate of a steam locomotive
3. I was born and raised in South Wales but am a die hard England Fan

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