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Stuff like programmes, books, autographs & the like.
How much have you kept? Do you keep all of it or pass some of it on?

I got loads of my old programmes from my Dads loft the other day and was in two minds whether to keep them or just chuck them. I ended up throwing away a couple of rugby league programmes but kept all the union ones.

Hugo wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:17 pm Stuff like programmes, books, autographs & the like.
How much have you kept? Do you keep all of it or pass some of it on?

I got loads of my old programmes from my Dads loft the other day and was in two minds whether to keep them or just chuck them. I ended up throwing away a couple of rugby league programmes but kept all the union ones.

Never chuck them. At least ebay them as a bulk lot and allow them a chance of further useful life.

I have a few things from my previous clubs (Clontarf and Neuchatel in switzerland)

A few exotic rugby shirts from visiting team and very few programs/tickets (barbarians in 'tarf)

Not a fan of big games so never bothered with programs often.

4 cans signed by Dean Richards 30 odd years sgo
Was planning to ebay once he was a big name again but maybe not now

RWC 15 AB shirt signed by DC.

Have a framed Brumbries jersey in 2012-13...won it in a raffle. Have it hanging up in my basement.

Have a bunch of Irish rugby stuff...

But the thing I kept for a long time and harder to do is match tickets...I essentially take them and put them in a frame in a collage...like the 2015 RWC tickets, 6n matches, etc...mainly hang them in my work office as the wife is not a fan You can tell I am old as I hate electronic tickets...bring back the paper

Ooh...off the top of my head:

Club kit:
Shirt I skippered my school in
Shirt from my first club
Shirts from at least three schools I coached (two signed by players)
Shirt from club I coached in Canberra
... stuffed Wallaby given to me by them
Shorts from my English club
Jackets from school I coached and regional rep team I co-coached

Match paraphernalia (no monumental matches):
Auckland ticket I went to with Enz, Clogs, Naki
Wasps match program went to with Aitch and doog
Must have others from Bris and Glos when I lived in England

Touring:
Cayman Island shorts
Shirt from Wallington County Grammar
Program from Cowbridge Comprehensive (Welsh int'l Rhys Williams was their skipper)
Program from John Cleveland College (featuring teenaged Ollie Smith and Sam Vesty)
Wooden plaques featuring badges of all three
(I realize some of the latter typically get displayed at a club, buy my hometown one never had a clubspace and folded so glad I kept them... I also had kinda rubbish support from exec when hosting one tour - 12 lads were camped in my parents' yard! - so I also wasn't in the sharing mood that year.)

Broken collar bone which juts out a little because of the way it set

A bit of a limp because of the very badly broken ankle and torn ligaments

Thumbs and finger dislocation mean they are weaker than should be, one finger doesn't bend all the way it should.

Bridge on front teeth

Back is prone to going into spasm

Still have scars from rake marks on legs

Tichtheid wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:04 am Broken collar bone which juts out a little because of the way it set

A bit of a limp because of the very badly broken ankle and torn ligaments

Thumbs and finger dislocation mean they are weaker than should be, one finger doesn't bend all the way it should.

Bridge on front teeth

Back is prone to going into spasm

Still have scars from rake marks on legs

Yes I only have scars and memories and a couple of old shirts!

My Dad's got the programme for every London Irish game he's been to since about 1990 (will be north of 500) stored in boxes. For a time in the early 90s I used to be sent onto the pitch at the end of the game with the programme and get autographs from the players milling around chatting to fans. Put together, it would probably be a who's who of famous and forgotten players of the era alike.

SaintK wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:04 am

Tichtheid wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 8:04 am Broken collar bone which juts out a little because of the way it set

A bit of a limp because of the very badly broken ankle and torn ligaments

Thumbs and finger dislocation mean they are weaker than should be, one finger doesn't bend all the way it should.

Bridge on front teeth

Back is prone to going into spasm

Still have scars from rake marks on legs

Yes I only have scars and memories and a couple of old shirts!

Approx 7 cm on left knee and 14+16 on right knee (scars left from cruciate surgeries ...) right one was at 17 years old left 37

Absolutely love my Neuchatel shirt (weights 2-3 kilos dry ) only got pins and needles on my left harm from my time there thanks to a knucklehead nearly breaking my collar bone...

John Smit signed Autobiography.
Bok jersey signed by Andre Joubert.
Pic of my Dad with Andre Joubert.
Pic of my mom with Japie Mulder, Robert Du Preez.

Got a 2003 WC top , cap and a Paul Roos Bok jersey. I still wear them when the Bokke play.

I have an amazing set of photos from when my old man was the captain of Ceylon in the late 50's, early 60's. In those days Colombo was a stop over for the ships carrying touring teams so he was able to play the All Blacks, Australia and the British Lions. There was also a combined Oxford/ Cambridge team that is just full of legends.
The highlight is a photo of my old man arm wrestling Colin Meads in a bar, with among others Wilson Whineray looking on.

Blackmac wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:01 pm I have an amazing set of photos from when my old man was the captain of Ceylon in the late 50's, early 60's. In those days Colombo was a stop over for the ships carrying touring teams so he was able to play the All Blacks, Australia and the British Lions. There was also a combined Oxford/ Cambridge team that is just full of legends.
The highlight is a photo of my old man arm wrestling Colin Meads in a bar, with among others Wilson Whineray looking on.

That's superb.

That's another thing I have actually. My grandfather was a 2nd cousin of Wilson Whineray. The family lived in Zambia from the late 40s to late 70s and my grandfather took a ton of cine footage that has since been converted. When the All Blacks toured in 1960 they came up to play in the Copper Belt in Kitwe and he took his camera to the game. Still below of him with my mother in his arms and Whineray (Presumably at the airport after or before given the plane in the background). And another from the pre game.

Just programmes from when Wales and Scarlets used to come to Wrexham.