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Paul Quare
Message from club chairman and president about the untimely death of Paul Quare.
It is with great sadness that we have to inform you all of the untimely death of Paul Quare. Paul was found at his home address yesterday, Friday 26th January.
Our thoughts are with Paul and his family at this very sad time. As soon as we have any information in relation to funeral arrangements we will ensure this is passed on.
Julian has given his details to Paul's family to ensure they have a link into the club and Pauls friends.
Julian Ross Steve Willock
Chairman President
Our thoughts are with Paul and his family at this very sad time. As soon as we have any information in relation to funeral arrangements we will ensure this is passed on.
Julian has given his details to Paul's family to ensure they have a link into the club and Pauls friends.
Julian Ross Steve Willock
Chairman President
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A great clubman for Burnage, a great player & tourist and a true gentleman. Paul also did a lot of unseen stuff behind the scenes and will be greatly missed. Also a true advert for rugby in general - playing on right up until the end, purely for his enjoyment of the game. There won't be many more to match PQ.
Incredibly sad, Morag and I heard the news yesterday. We usually meet Paul in Samoens, France about now. Never got the chance to ski with him, another of his top talents, but had a few glasses of "Egg Timer" (Kwak beer) in the Aspen Bar whist watching 6 Nations games. His rugby was always good, as we all witnessed in Portugal this year, when he played alongside 1st team players and never let the side down - the best hooker at Burnage! And a try for Burnage RFC in each of 5 decades. Will be cracking some real ale and drinking to PQ this evening - a true Burnage legend
A wonderful man. A worldwide ambassador for Rugby Union. He had wit, friendship and smiles for everyone. Still I will remember his courage most of all. Nobody could take the scum as low as PQ and still smile when the weight came on. Not even Sean Fitzpatrick.
Rest peacefully Paul
A wonderful man. A worldwide ambassador for Rugby Union. He had wit, friendship and smiles for everyone. Still I will remember his courage most of all. Nobody could take the scum as low as PQ and still smile when the weight came on. Not even Sean Fitzpatrick.
Rest peacefully Paul
Sad news. Paul's name is synonymous with Burnage Rugby club. Fond memories of a great player and a true gent.
Very sad news, Paul was a wonderful person, and a great hooker, my fondest memories of him are all stuck in the middle of the scrum with him trying to teach the young me that I did not have to punch people to be aggressive! Great company in the bar too, all memories bring a smile to my face. RIP
Although I only met Paul the once when I came down with our second team last year,he made myself and a couple of the other guys really welcome and showed us round with great pride .A really nice man
We conversed via phone and e mail since then when sorting out fixtures and I was really looking forward to seeing him again this Saturday .Alas it is not to be and so all we can do is pass on our condolences to his family ,his friends and to all his clubmates,he'll be badly missed
regards
Geoff Matthews
President/Fixture Secretary
Penrith RUFc
Very sad news PQ is truly a Burnage Legend. A great loss to the Club, Paul will be truly missed but never forgotten. Its a privalige to have known you and to be able to call you a frien.
R.I.P. Paul
My first memories of Paul are as part of the Rotting Dog curry club, always the best stand to hang around on Gala Days as a hungry kid. Great food and a really good bunch of guys with their own sense of humour and most memorable t-shirts. They were never going to let Roger get away with nicking that joint of meat!
He has worked hard for the club forever it seems. Never one for the limelight, few will realise how much Paul did to organise referees, fixture lists, register players, keep up to date with the ever changing RFU club administration systems. We will no doubt find out just how much we relied on him over the weeks, months and seasons to come.
I only really knew Paul as a veteran player, but in this stage of his career he embraced the Miller Leagues. To him, they offered a chance to play structured rugby in the 3rd and 4th team. He still hadn't stopped and so will never be afforded a retirement game, but the young players who he played with will no doubt honour him in their own way. He was determined to play on merit and never be patronised by opposition sides; Paul would never boast, but you could sense his pride when he told you over his post match real ale that he had won so many scrums against the head, hit all his lineouts, or scored a try for Burnage for the fifth consecutive decade. I cannot recall seeing someone who embodied the true spirit of club rugby more than Paul. The Miller leagues also offered the chance of visiting clubs supplied by different breweries and offering up new ales, another of his passions and something which he successfully lobbied for at Burnage in his own gentle way.
Paul became a cult favourite on tour. In Edinburgh a few years ago we foolishly planned to play 2 games in 2 days, something we hadn't done for years and haven't done since. By the second match, day 3 of tour, we barely had 15 players. Paul showed the way, with a committed, determined performance against opponents 40 years his junior. He broke through 30 metres out and with the 45 'injured' tourists roaring him on from the sidelines made it to within 5 metres of the line. Whether or not his legs gave up, it was typical of him to allow someone else to score and take the plaudits. A couple of years later he was walking on the ceiling in Antwerp to earn the nickname 'spider-Quare' and just last year in Portugal he used his senior citizen's bus-pass to earn impunity from the tour finesmaster.
It is sad to think that we won't enjoy Paul's gentle, intelligent, humorous company any more, but we certainly won't forget it.
Very little can be added to the fitting tributes that have been posted at such a sad time. As second team captain over the last two seasons, I became one of the few that witnessed the commitment and hard work that Paul put into Burnage and the major part he played in the success we all enjoy today.
Our thoughts are with Paul's family at this time and hope they will be able to take some small comfort in knowing that he made the club a better place for all that wear the badge and the legacy he has left with us.
Hi everyone,
I wanted to join all this guy to thanks Paul Quare because he used to be friendly with me.
I remembered after game on saturday, he used to speak with me about the game at burnage and asked if everything was ok for me.
Thank you for all these things.
Take care.
Great rugby player.Wonderful generous man.The world's a poorer place without you mate.
I am deeply saddened by the fact that next time i pitch up at the club paul wont sidle up beer in hand and warmly engage with some story as though I had never been away. His gentle humour and persona has been a real part of the fabric of 'The Club' .
For some of us older players he is a link with a different age where hookers contested and retrieved the ball from the opposition number 8's feet and the ball was put in straight if your hooker was quick enough. The 'Quare Fella' was a top hooker with the fastest feet and strike. His performance was incredible considering his size relative to the monsters of today, he never let anyone down and he bamboozled many of em.
As with his playing Paul wasnt the biggest personality at the club, there are planty of those but he was one of the most genial and generous of spirit - we will all miss him.
It was with shock and sadness I learned of Paul's death. I can't add to the many comments about Paul above though his 'sensitivity', 'generous spirit' and 'impish smile' particularly hits the mark. I enjoyed playing in the front row with him, refereeing him and having the odd half of bitter. He is a great loss to Burnage Rugby and to rugby in general and will long be remembered.
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