Marc Ellis

No, I mean, the university team, I think we had about 17 or 18 players in the Otago squad.

Oh, wow.

University rugby was very strong back then.

I think we won the, we played Southern in the final one, 97-0.

Oh, gee.

You know, so it was a good, fun time.

We'd go, we'd take the piss, we'd go and wear, what's the dress code today for the big game against Southern, which is like the oldest club in New Zealand.

Right, Hawaiian shirts and gold medallions, right?

So we'd turn up at the ground there.

Look at these scruffy wankers, you know, with their Hawaiian shirts and gold medallions and then you put 90 on them, you know.

It must have been, you know, and we wouldn't, you know, be quiet about it either.

We'd be giving everyone as much stock as we could.

Yeah.

But it was a good fun time.

It would have involved a few sherbets.

I think we had to do, well, you save a crate day.

I remember that.

Yeah.

And my first year, my house was the 12th, which is the last house you want to be, right?

We used to go past Aaron Pena's house, who would basically, and John Team, who'd been the heroes of the team, would effectively denote which house was what.