Poster Profile 56: simquin
By Prof
September 27 2004
| Board Name: | simquin |
| Age: | 32 |
| Location: | Wimbledon |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Why did you choose your board name?: | Contraction of my first name and Harlequins |
| How long have you been supporting Quins?: | Around 27 years |
| How did you start supporting Quins?: | My dad took me along when I was four or five years old and I stuck with them. Tho’ with some of the bleaker years in recent times, I may have done something to offend him ; ) |
| If you play(ed) rugby what position did/do you play?: | Started at 7, moved to 6 |
| Best ever Quins game: | Hmm, have to say any game when we beat Leicester (or Bath or Wasps). Recently, the Parker Pen final |
| Favourite off pitch Quins experience: | Seeing Scamble embarrass my wife by getting Andre over to talk to her! |
| What is the most ridiculous rugby related thing you have done?: | Play a game on the wing (!) in Paris after drinking ‘til 3am that day |
| Favourite Ground (after The Stoop): | Thomond Park |
| Favourite Quins Player: | All-time? Toss-up between Winterbottom and Jase. Currently, spose Vossy |
| Favourite Non-Quins Player: | Richard Hill |
| Most likely to say?: | Yeah I’ll have a pint |
| Least likely to say?: | Leicester always play within the laws |
| What are your non-rugby pastimes?: | Guitar playing, drawing, reading, looking amazed at our gorgeous baby girl, Rowan |
| Favourite Film(s): | The Wicca Man, Quadrophenia, Blade Runner, Dogma, Matter of Life and Death, Great Escape, Donnie Darko… |
| Favourite TV Programme(s): | Inspector Morse, Spaced, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, Have I got News for You, Drop the Dead Donkey, House of Cards, Robin of Sherwood, Ultraviolet, Time Team, some of the stuff on Toonami |
| Favourite Book(s): | Round Ireland with a Fridge, The Pendragon Cycle, The Ipcress File, any book by Phil Rickman, Inspector Morse, currently reading part 2 of the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, American Gods, The English by Paxman, London… |
| Favourite Music: | Too eclectic anything from classical to industrial for me |
| Favourite Food(s): | Curry, Chinese, Italian |
| Favourite Drinks(s): | Abbot Ale, London Pride, Liefe Blond, Castle, a good SA red wine |
| Favourite Quotation(s): | We are all of us lying in the gutter, but some of are looking at the stars |
| Favourite Place(s) to visit: | Cornwall, Rome |
| When you were young what did you want Jim to Fix for you?: | To go to the Star Wars film set |
| 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 was in a Level 42 video 2. I once punched Chesney Hawks 3. I was in Fresh Fields |