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20 Questions: John 'Jub' Jenkins and Nick 'Cat' Bishop

20 Questions: John 'Jub' Jenkins and Nick 'Cat' Bishop

Bobby Bridge15 Nov 2013 - 09:32
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IT'S time for the club's most senior committee figures to open up the window to their soul and answer the same set of 20 Questions, enjoy.

NAME: Nick 'Cat' Bishop
POSITION: Chairman

NAME: John 'Jub' Jenkins
POSITION: President

1) Rugby is better than football because?
JUB: It is played by gentlemen that occasionally get rough.
CAT; Football has no place for the rounder athlete; Rugby can be played by people of any shape and size. To justify my thought process on this I offer but two words; Zola

2) Which actor would play you in a film about your life?
JUB; Charles Bronson likes a rumble as is ugly.
CAT; We’re hoping to audition Todd Carty, not only did he smash it in The Bill and brought the house down as aidsbag Mark Fowler in Eastenders, his portrayal of Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill was just immense. Either that or the little boy who plays Eric Cartman in Southpark.

3) What is the worst and best meal you’ve ever had?
JUB; The worst was a Deano's steak at 7pm, the best a Deanos steak at midnight might have been something to do with the 10 pints.
CAT; Worst was when I stopped in a hotel in Shrewsbury and had Woodpigeon with rosemary foam starter. Not only did it taste terrible but it looked as though my plate had been spat on.

4) What song sums your personality?
JUB; Tom Jones - Sex Bomb in my dreams anyway.
CAT; More life in a tramps vest The Stereophonics.

5) What is the stupidest thing you did at school?
JUB; I got suspended when a boy caught fire because of matches in his pocket I just tackled him playing bull dog on a play ground.
CAT; For the interest of anonymity and fear of reprisals I will not name my accomplice in this heist.
The boys toilets were next to the caretakers office (this was the 80’s, I think they’ve banned that now), Anyway we noticed we could reach the loft hatch if we climbed on the stall partitions and as nosey buggers it was our duty to explore said loft to see what bounty it contained.
We realised this was where the caretaker stored many things and amongst the mop heads and cleaning fluids were huge boxes of light bulbs which me and Trev then liberated before negotiating a deal with what was in those days Madison’s snooker club and in exchange for several hundred 60watt bulbs we got free snooker every lunch time for a week.

6) If you had to have a whole 15 players of the same, single, Manor Park player for a game, which would it be and why?
JUB; Graham Atkinson just the size of him would scare most teams and he had an amazing tackle.
CAT; Tough one? Do I go for power, pace, skill or work rate?
May be a bit of a surprise but Binki! Who is all of the above, may not be a master but he can play anywhere (and you want him on your side when it goes sideways, he’s had my back a couple of times).

7) In real life ,who is your biggest inspiration and why?
JUB; Martin Johnson been there do it the hard way, and we are all proud he is English apart from management.
CAT; Clyde the orang utan out of Any Which Way But Loose. Took no sh1t.

8) Tell us something we don’t know about you?
JUB; I boxed for the German national boxing squad at the age of 20 against the British army and was the only German to win.
CAT; I see dead people. Well I don’t any more but I used to when I work at the town morgue.

9) Which famous people would you erase and why?
JUB; Gethin Jenkins he is to good and not English (if he was English and not Welsh he would be my answer to question 7).
CAT; None, I don’t get it myself but some people seem to get pleasure out of following their antics. Having said that I wouldn’t be too be upset if Piers Morgan and Stuart Barnes died in some kind of stranglew*nk affair.

10) A time you’ve cried with laughter.
JUB; Too many times but probably Nick Bennett doing a half pipe in a shopping trolley on tour.
CAT; The time Peter Griffin bought Chris a frog to cheer him up.

11) Best film you’ve ever seen.
JUB; Warriors it was like walking back to the digs in Bridge end
CAT; Stepbrothers

12) Sum up Manor park rugby club.
JUB; My best friends all watch play or have played here, and what a nice place to be.
CAT; It starts with a capital M, then an ‘a’ and ends in a ‘K’ and has NORPAR in the middle which is an inuit word meaning “Excellence and diversity” and I promise if you don’t believe me google it......
Seriously though for me it is a lot more than a rugby club it really is my extended family.
In fact, no less that 10 members* of my close family have turned out in the red and black (dad Alan, uncles Steve, Kev and Graham, brother Andy, cousins John, Ian and tom and nephew Callum) and I can honestly say the people I’ve met here are friends for life.
I love that I can spend a Saturday afternoon chewing the fat with club legends and then spend the evening drinking alcopops & practicing line out moves on the dancefloor of reflex with the younger lads (and Keith)
*ok, one less.

13) What annoys you the most about rugby.
JUB; How touts get hold of big game tickets and players can not.
CAT; Elitism, i don’t like it at all, I’m better than that.

14) Favorite Manor park memoroy A playing B non playing.
JUB; A Winning the county shield at Bedworth, B; Being presented with the Leicester Tigers top from Manor Park on my 50th.
CAT; Winning player of the year after one of Parks most successful seasons.
To be fair it probably should have gone to Gaj who had a tremendous season that year but as they say ‘history is written by the victors’
B) Non Playing. Obviously there have been a few but one would have to be when our under 17’s beat Old Leams at home.
It was a real Disney moment as on of the lads first games together we got a bit of a tonking at their place and for to turn that round and beat them was fantastic. Obviously the lads were over the moon but there was massive pride for Daz (Joyce), Shaun (Stain) and myself.

15) Favourite alcoholic beverage?
JUB; Bitter any smooth flow.
CAT; JD and coke.

16) Do you have any superstitions?
JUB; Never wear pants as it quite often hurts at the club
CAT; Not really but I recently discovered that I don’t like flying anymore, does that count?

17) Best present you've ever received?
JUB; My two children
CAT; I am a conscientious objector and therefore believe it is morally wrong to receive presents.

18) Name a significant date in your life other than your birthday?
JUB; The first Saturday in September this is the start of 9 months of drinking.
CAT; November 28 1990, Margaret Thatcher’s Reign of terror finally came to an end after her and lover Eva Braun completed their suicide by ingesting cyanide in the bunker below the chancellery.

19) Which Manor park player do you like the most and why?
JUB; This is a very hard and close call but it got to be the guy at the bar buying the next round.
CAT; Adam Jardine, obviously. Sorry what was the question again? Oh god, definitely not, erm ...

20) Discribe yourself in words.
JUB; Friendly, big softy.
CAT; Omnivorous (of an animal or person) feeding on a variety of food of both plant and animal origin], big boned.

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GET INVOLVED, IT'S OPEN TO YOU ALL...
Plenty of you have been contacted with a few different sets of questions, but feel free to email your answers to bobbybridge@me.com if you haven't, or make 20 up of your own! Or, ask 20 to a fellow team mate and report the results

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