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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Billy Johnson – Old Albanians lock
1.The maul ‘tackle’ This is the main thing that really winds me up on the pitch. The attacking player takes the...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Sam Moss – Macclesfield hooker
1. Poor lineout lifts/jumps At Macclesfield we pride ourselves on our set-piece and lineout and in what has been a difficult...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Ollie Dawe – Bristol prop
1. Second-hand jokes It annoys me when I tell a funny story or a joke and someone else repeats it shortly...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Mark Wilson – Newcastle flanker
1. Topknot hairstyles Admittedly I’m not the most fashionable person around, but I can’t see why anyone would want to have...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: George Robson – London Irish lock
1. Airport queue cretins As you approach airport security there are signs everywhere telling you what you need to do in...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Robin Hislop – Doncaster prop
1. Foreign meat I grew up on a farm in the Scottish Borders rearing sheep and cattle so it pains me...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Isaac Green – Hull Ionians scrum-half
1. Slow walkers This kills me. There’s nothing worse than being stuck behind slow walkers in town, taking up the whole...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: James Horwill – Harlequins lock
1. Plane pain Being a longer-limbed person – I am 6ft 6ins – I find it very annoying when the person...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Will Spencer – Worcester lock
1. Hesitation at roundabouts I get frustrated when people come to a stop at roundabouts regardless of whether there’s any traffic...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Paul Privey – Rosslyn Park lock
1. Economy class flights I’m 6ft 5ins and the seats in economy class are never big enough and it costs too...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Gareth Steenson – Exeter fly-half
1. Traffic I’m lucky that I don’t have too far to travel to get to work because I live close to...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Ted Stagg – Caldy hooker
1. Littering I just don’t see the point of throwing rubbish on the floor when everywhere you go there is a...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Ricky Aley – South Leicester fly-half
1. Noisy eaters It really gets me when people eat loudly and slurp. Apparently, this makes me misophonic – yes, the...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Billy Burns – Gloucester scrum-half
1. Hoovering My girlfriend may disagree but I like to think I do my fair share of tidying up. One thing...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Jimmy Rea – Bishop’s Stortford wing
1. People who leave gates open I’ve got an organic arable and non-organic beef farm on the Essex/Herts border and it...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Chris Cook – Bath scrum-half
1. A multi-lingual world I get embarrassed by my inability to speak the local language whenever I visit countries like France...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: David Williams – Nottingham full-back
1. Onions I don’t like the taste of onions no matter what the variety is or whether they’re cooked or raw....
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Simon Hammersley – Newcastle full-back
1. Glute activation exercises Having torn the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee a few months back, these horrible little movements...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Christian Wade – Wasps wing
1. Brussels sprouts I tasted one once as a kid and spat it out before I swallowed it. I didn’t like...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Sam Harrison – Leicester scrum-half
1. Sports Personality of the Year By this, I’m specifically referring to Andy Murray winning it for a third time when,...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Tim Visser – Harlequins wing
1. Bad drivers Some people don’t seem to understand the whole point of roundabouts. They think they have the right to...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Herbie Stupple – Plymouth Albion back-rower
1. Christmas Scrooges I’m a very Christmassy person and my dad is the same, I think it’s rubbed off on me....
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Luke Charteris – Bath lock
1. Artifical pitches I’ve been called many things in my time but agile isn’t one of them. So, I’m not a...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Greg Nicholls – Fylde scrum-half
1.Bus drivers We have the same coach driver for every away trip and, without fail, he’ll mess around for ages trying...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Ciaran Moore – Stourbridge captain
1. Memes and Vines I’m a final year Law student and every time I try and sit down and do some...
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Room 101
/ 8 years agoRoom 101: Jack Waslh – Blackheath scrum-half
1. Scrums Scrums ruin rugby, they slow the game right down and need to be binned. Either that, or introduce Rugby...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Matt Cox – Worcester flanker
1. Donncha O’Callaghan’s cooking I share a flat with ‘Irish’ during the week and we alternate between cooking and tidying up....
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Matt Challinor – Doncaster lock
1. Cold callers Just lately loads of people have knocked at our door trying to sell stuff or get you to...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Hamish Barton – Old Elthamians flanker
1. Luggage louts A group of about five or six of us commute on the train straight from the City to...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Tom Wheatcroft – Covnetry centre
1. Non-social team-mates It annoys me when lads don’t turn up for social get-togethers especially when they’ve been arranged a good...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Stefan Liebenberg – Cambridge scrum-half
1. The dive pass As a scrum-half myself I cannot understand why some nines still perform the dive pass. For one,...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Gareth Rawlings – Sale player/coach
1. Towel thieves Finding someone has used your towel prior to you using it after a game is something that gets...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Joe Barker – Rotherham centre
1. Fish I can’t stand the texture and smell of fish. What makes it worse is when people say to me:...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Will Addison – Sale wing
1. Red top milk I come from Cumbrian farming stock so I like nothing less than full fat milk. I first...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Freddie Burns – Leicester fly-half
1. Car decoration I don’t mind car drivers supporting their sports team by putting up a sticker in the rear window,...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Danny Matthews – Harrogate scrum-half
1. Jealous diners It grinds my gears when you order a restaurant or takeaway meal and whoever you are eating with...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Harry Cochrane – Hartpury College scrum-half
1. Moaners I know this is a bit ironic but it’s probably my biggest pet hate. I’m a glass half-full type...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Matt Price – Coventry hooker
1. Limp handshakes I struggle to think about someone in a positive light for quite a while if their handshake is...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Jonny Coser – Harrogate flanker
1. Weather moaners This summer’s interchangeable weather has brought out all the people who moan about the weather in their droves....
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Alex Lewington – London Irish wing
1. Early starts This is a controversial one as we’ve just started a new programme at London Irish which means we...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Dan Seal – Cambridge prop
1. Ice baths I had my first ice bath for a good few years on the recent England Counties tour of...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Brett Beukeboom – Cornish Pirates and Canada lock
1. Donald Trump I went back home for three to four months in May and had to put up with the...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Declan Cusack – Doncaster Knights fly-half
1. Poorly kept golf greens I’m a keen golfer who’s pretty decent from tee to green but after that things can...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Jack Preece – Moseley flanker and hooker
1. Needless chat I find it very frustrating whenever someone starts up another conversation following a meeting/team huddle. I just want...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Tom Brady – Leicester Tigers and former Sale wing
1. Grumpy neighbours Shortly I’ll be moving to Leicester and I can’t say I’ll miss the bloke who lives at the...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Matt Garvey – Bath loose forward
1. “You’re tall aren’t you?!” When people say that it really breaks me – as if I didn’t know I was...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Tom Biggs – Worcester winger
1. Roadside litter It drives me insane when I see McDonalds bags and used coffee cups discarded on the roadside when...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Matt Jess – Exeter Chiefs wing
1. Road cyclists Even though it was a while ago since I took my cycling proficiency test, I’m pretty sure there...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Ryan Parkinson – Macclesfield No.8
1. Soppy social media statuses This is one that I’m sure everyone can relate to with the way social media is...
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Room 101
/ 9 years agoRoom 101: Nigel Mukarati – Stourbridge back-rower
1. Hotel check in/out times I don’t see why hotels don’t allow you to check in until 2/3pm and then ask...