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Te Chocolate February 2013 Why Chocolate? – KRFC Magazine – Rev002 Price: £1.50 Why Chocolate? The Revival Years Welcome to another spiffing edition of conservative thirty-five issues. Well we Why Chocolate? The Revival Years. As sold ourselves short, the thirty-five you may or may not be aware the first copies were gone within hours of the bar edition was a rip-roaring success, selling opening. out within hours of hitting the shelf and So, what intellectual delights do we have putting serious strain on the Big K for you this issue? I can tell you that you printing press. Due to this success we won’t be disappointed. Keith, sorry I mean have also decided to offer a digital Mo, gives another outstanding review edition via Amazon Kindle, just search from ‘The Moving Picture Box’, Dr. P Iles Why Chocolate? in the Kindle store, this is back with more health and fitness talk, will be released the same weekend as the we have a brilliant look alike for you in print edition is available from the bar. You ‘Pipe and Slippers’ and our Director of will be able to get all back issues through Rugby tells his story of ‘The Hungry the Kindle store at a discounted price, Goose’. they may even be free if we are feeling So without further ado I present to you generous. the second issue of Why Chocolate? The As you can appreciate writing and editing Revival Years. a magazine article for monthly release is a tough job on top of people’s normal jobs and lives, let alone a whole magazine. So here’s how it’s going to work. To keep the mob from the door, and because we love it, WC? will continue to be a monthly publication, it will however be a slimmer Happy reading, The Editor version of the bumper first edition. We will release a bumper quarterly edition on par with the first release and if you’re lucky you may even get an Annual, to rival the Beano, just in time for Christmas. The journey so far for Why Chocolate? has been a fun and rather remarkable one. The concept of revival was discussed at a committee meeting in November, within weeks a team had been assembled and by the beginning of December the first articles started to appear in my inbox. Needless to say most of my Christmas was spent editing and compiling. So January comes along and we are ready to print. We decided not to get too carried away with our passion and printed a Email the editor: [email protected] 1 February 2013 Why Chocolate? – KRFC Magazine – Rev002 Price: £1.50 Kontents Page 3: Club Captains Colouring Page 23: Moving Picture Box Competition Mike Oakley reviews what he has been As one of our club captains favourite past watching on the ‘Moving picture Box’ this times he would like to share with you the joys month… of colouring in… Page 24: Events Page 4: Senior Player Profile Save the dates for all the upcoming events at Each issue we bring you an exclusive profile the social hub that is the Big K and interview with one of our senior players… Page 25: Editors Farewell Page 7: Mint Berry Krunch A farewell from the editor… Our resident personal trainer Dr. P.Iles gives his latest advice on dietary tips and extreme work outs… Page 8: The Directors Cut A word from the Big K Director of Rugby… Page 10: Did You Know An insight into the extra-terrestrial by Professor Brian Coccyx… Page 12: Junior Player Profile Each issue we bring you an exclusive profile and interview with one of our junior players… Page 13: Senior Match Reports A review of the latest senior games… Page 14: The Lost Boy’s We take time to stop and look back over the ones we’ve loved and lost… Page 16: Junior Match Reports A review of the latest junior games… Page 18: The Tale of the Hungry Goose Director of Rugby, Paul Meaden, talks about player recruitment and attrition… Page 21: Pipe and Slippers A chance for you to have your say on any topic of your choice… Email the editor: [email protected] 2 February 2013 Why Chocolate? – KRFC Magazine – Rev002 Price: £1.50 Club Captains Colouring Competition In this section our club captain shares his favourite colouring pictures. These have been left blank so that you can colour them in and enjoy the fun with him. Once you have coloured in your picture send a copy to [email protected] and the lucky winner will have their picture displayed in the next issue, please include your name, age and where you’re from. This month’s picture is a happy dolphin drawn by Michaela, Age 23 from Oldland. Email the editor: [email protected] 3 February 2013 Why Chocolate? – KRFC Magazine – Rev002 Price: £1.50 Senior Player Profile This month’s senior player under the spot light is … Building Surveyor, Matthew ‘Mutley’ Perriman! So, what has Mutley brought to the party I hear you ask, apart from his freak strength, he’s only gone and brought Mouse Trap! Classic! Name: Matt ‘Mutley’ Perriman Height: 6ft Weight: 13st 3lbs Position: Flanker (with an F) D.O.B: 02/05/1984 It's back! This time, Matthew 'Mutley' Freak Strength or just freak? Perriman is centre stage! So, as we wait for the others to arrive, With the first issue of WC? being such a Mutley and I head to the kitchen to rip-roaring success, the editorial team are indulge in an aperitif and canapé, and pumping money into the venture hand over whilst I have him alone I take the fist, drastically increasing my budget, so I opportunity to ask him to enlighten me have decided to spend wildly for my about his arrival at the club. return and hold a party, but not just any Worryingly, Mutley begins by telling me party, oh no, this is a retro board game he is a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do, a party! All attendees are bringing along revelation that makes me remove the their favourite game from their bottle opener from his hand and take a childhood, a full on nostalgia fest! Please safer stance on the other side of the don’t be offended if you didn’t get an kitchen. I of course remind Mutley that I invite, my living room isn’t that large, plus like him very much and always have. I don’t like you. Anyway, with such talents under his belt *Ringgggg* Ah, the front door, excuse me (pun intended) Mutley had to find a sport while I get that………………………..Well, well, if that fitted his style. Of course, Football, it isn’t everyone’s favourite Graduate Netball and fishing just wouldn’t cut the mustard, but luckily an old friend guided Email the editor: [email protected] 4 February 2013 Why Chocolate? – KRFC Magazine – Rev002 Price: £1.50 Mutley onto the right path. “Matt Bryant because he began to rattle off details of asked me if I fancied taking part in one of his short, injury ravaged career. A Kingswood’s training sessions and despite Ruptured knee in 2006/07, a knee being on the receiving end of one of Gary operation the same season, plus a 2nd Inman’s” (wasn’t that the guy in Are You batch of surgery in 08/09 has meant that Being Served?) “tackles in the very first Mutley has had a fairly stuttering career session, I've never looked back” so far. But, despite these setbacks, and the fact that Mutley was under the guidance of Cabbage for the early part of his playing career, Mutley has come a long way since charging down that penalty kick at BAC. At the end of 2009/10, Mutley was a regular in the 1st XV squad. Mutley has been away from the game recently due to further complications, namely a shoulder injury and marriage, but he is set to return to the field of dreams just as soon as he has recovered from ANOTHER operation. Once Mutley had finished prattling on about his chocolate appendages I managed to ask him to tell me about his favourite ever game. “Well, I love the whole mechanics of it. You wind the handle that makes the boot kick the bucket containing a small metal ball…” Ah, Mutley, I think we Gary Inman? have our wires crossed, I meant, what’s By now, the living room is a bustling hive your favourite game for Kingswood? of activity. The table is covered with a “Oh I see, well, my favourite game has to multitude of 80’s plastic, there’s Pop-Up be from the Chipping Sodbury cup game 2 Pirate, Buckaroo and Hungry Hungry seasons ago, it was one of those ‘nothing Hippos, as well as Mutley’s very own to lose, everything to gain’ matches. As we Mouse Trap. arrived at the pitch, the Chipping Sodbury The evening gets underway with a quick lads were already out doing their warm- game of Pop-Up Pirate, a game that in up. Even though the weather was terrible, these modern times would probably be there was a great buzz amongst the team banned for Health and Safety reasons, which continued throughout the game, a not because of the projectile plastic buzz that undoubtedly helped lead us to Pirate, but more to do with the rise in our win. The feeling after the game was heart-attacks which occurred during the amazing!” intense moments that you pricked the The evening was now in full swing and the barrel with your sword (A great sentence air is filled with excitement as well as the for fans of double-entendres).
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