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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Fergus Mulchrone – London Irish centre
1. Leniency in schools Kids get away with far too much in schools nowadays, in my opinion a clip around the...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Mike Haley – Sale full-back
1. A poor cup of tea Unlike a lot of my generation I like a good cup of tea, I think...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Richie Rees – NG Dragons scrum-half
1. Public displays of affection I tend to think that the best relationships are the ones not talked about/flaunted in public....
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Nick Evans – Harlequins fly-half
1. Open Doors For some reason my missus seems incapable/unwilling to shut opened doors. This applies to wardrobes, food cupboards, kitchen...
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20 Questions
/ 10 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jon Golding – former Newcastle, Northampton, Rotherham and England prop
As a player I enjoyed every minute I was on the pitch, the confrontational aspect of playing in the front row...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Martin Haag – Nottingham head coach
1. Garlic I hate garlic for a variety of reasons: 1) it doesn’t taste very nice; 2) it makes your breath...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Will Robinson – London Welsh fly-half
1. Predictive Text I’d say my grammar and spelling are pretty good and I’ve probably no real need for predictive text....
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Guy Thompson – Wasps flanker
1. Insomnia Insomnia is not something I tend to suffer from but, now and again, particularly when I know I have...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Jon Brennan – Jersey prop
1. Shopping for Jeans As a prop your legs are either too short or too fat to be able to buy...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Tom Bason – Blackheath lock
1. Long Seasons I’ve been playing in National One now for 11 years and the length of season is something that...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Stuart Hooper – Bath captain
1. Liquorice I went Trick or Treating with my kids for the first time last month and they ended up with...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Tom Holmes – Rotherham forward
1.Lost Ball ‘desperados’ Playing a round of golf with my former Sale team-mate, England prop Henry Thomas, can take ages. He...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Jonathan Thomas – Worcester No.8
1.Tax I know paying tax is essential to pay for services that help us all in our daily lives, but I...
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Room 101
/ 10 years agoRoom 101: Nick Easter – Harlequins No.8
1.Golf Etiquette There are still too many stuffy golf clubs whose committee men worry more about what people wear than their...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Nick Wood – Gloucester prop
1.Reality TV I just can’t stand it. The likes of Big Brother and X-Factor have had so much screen time over...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Clive Griffiths – Doncaster Director of Rugby
1.Traffic I’ve remained in St Helens ever since I ‘went North’ in the late 70’s. Given the fact I’ve coached at...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Marshall Gadd – Rotherham captain
1.Cold callers Cold callers always seem to ring at the wrong time, normally when you’re just about to sit down and...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: David Seymour – Sale flanker
1. Overcooked steak I like my steak medium-rare, not oozing with blood but nicely pink. Quite often you’ll get asked how...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Chris Johnson – Fylde fly-half
1. Box Kicks I hate box kicks from lineouts, it is what I’d class as an ‘anti-rugby‘ tactic. Normally from a...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Rob Vickers – Newcastle hooker
1. Parking Space Cheats This applies to people who have the cheek to park in disabled bays when they’re not disabled...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Rupert Cooper – Nottingham flanker
1. Queuing I think queuing, whether it’s in traffic or supermarkets, is completely unnecessary and painful. I know we’re supposed to...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Matthew Tait – Leicester full-back
1. Wasting food I get really annoyed when my wife orders online shopping and then five days later half of it...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Topsy Ojo – London Irish wing
1. Crème brûlée I’m quite a fussy eater – I know what I like and I like to stick to it....
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Andy Saull – Newcastle flanker
1. Cutting your toe-nails After a day where you’ve been running around in training and lifting weights in the gym your...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Steve Hanley – former Sale and England winger
1. Cheese Cheese is the devil’s food, I can’t stand the sight of the stuff let alone the taste or the...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Tom Barrett – Rotherham fly-half
1. Fast Food Playing at Rotherham and living in Bingley (north of Bradford) means a lot of my day is spent...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Neil Mason – Moseley back row
1. Caravans My dislike of caravans is two-fold. First, they cause chaos on the roads in the summer when they overturn...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Alex Crockett – Hull Ionians coach
1. Big backs/slim props A real bug bear of mine is how the game has changed from being one for players...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Fred Burdon – Yorkshire Carnegie centre
1. Pay Toilets It’s pretty much inevitable that after a long journey or while at some tourist attraction nature is going...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Ryan Lamb – The Worcester fly-half takes us through his prime annoyances
1. New housing estates – The family and I have recently moved into a property on a new housing estate in...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Rob Cook – Gloucester full-back
1. Smoking: I’ve never been a fan of smoking and I can honestly say I have never tried it! Smoking in...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Peter Swatkins – Sheffield player/coach
1. Anthem singers The recent events at the World Cup in Brazil have once again confirmed...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Kai Horstmann – Exeter back rown
1. Kids toys I’ve got nothing against kids toys, just the pain they cause when you tread on them inadvertently when...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Jamie Broadley – Rotherham wing
1. Poor English This has to be my greatest annoyance. Ironically it seems to be that those who are most fervent...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Richard Vasey – Caldy fly-half
1. Paying for the use of public toilets What is that all about! Although I’m a Yorkshireman and by tradition very...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Warren Spragg – Fylde & Lancashire utility back
1. Parent & Child space invaders I live in an area where there are loads of young families and the local...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Lyn Jones – Dragons director of rugby
1. Instant Coffee After a lifetime of drinking so much tea and coffee I’ve now decided to go for quality over...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Ben Youngs – Leicester scrum-half
1. Caravans When I go back home to see the family in Norfolk the journey can seem to take forever during...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Barry Davies – Coventry and former Welsh international full-back
1. Poor service I eat out a lot. To be fair I don’t think I’ve cooked a meal for myself in...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Mark Cueto – Sale winger
1. Messiness I’m quite OCD. I like everything to be neat and tidy so it winds me up when the kids...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Ronnie McLean-Dents – Ealing centre
1. Soap operas I don’t get why people would want to watch other people being miserable all of the time. Surely...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Paul Sampson – former England, Wasps & London Welsh wing
1. Multi-storey car parks Designers of multi-story car parks need a rethink. For the life of me I can’t understand why...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Phil Eggleshaw – Doncaster forward
1. One born every minute – TV show This programme is so bad for several reasons. At the end of the...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Lee Dickson – Northampton scrum-half
1. The ‘Choke’ Tackle The ‘catch tackle’, as we call it at Saints, is just so negative and takes all the...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Karl Dickson – Harlequins scrum-half
1. IKEA We moved into our new home three weeks ago and I’m up to my ears in IKEA boxes and...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Adam Cave – Moseley hooker
1. OAPS Old Age Pensioners have a terrible habit of wasting yours and everybody else’s time when you or they least...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Ed Slater – Leicester lock
1. Fish As creatures, I’ve got nothing against fish at all, I just don’t like eating – or smelling them. Even...
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English Championship
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Alex Rae – Jersey forward
1. Travelling by plane Unfortunately flying cannot be avoided when you play for an island team like Jersey. I’ve lost count...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Mike Umaga – Stourbridge coach
1. The Jeremy Kyle Show I fail to understand why anyone would want to go on this show and air all...
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Room 101
/ 11 years agoRoom 101: Rob Vickerman – Leeds Carnegie centre & former England Sevens captain
1. Lorries, especially overtaking ones Without wanting to sound like Clarkson vs Caravans, over the last few years I have spent...
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