Darrell has been a stalwart of the club for a number of years having joined Old Gs before anyone can actually remember. As a solid number 8 that can slide into the 2nd row as required Darrell is still a regular in the 3rd team having represented the club for a number of years across all sides. He can still be seen driving 15 other forwards over try lines in pushover scrums on a weekly basis.

Darrell isn't letting the body get the better of him and is the number 1 customer of tape manufacturers in order to keep various joints and limbs attached during games

As a member of God's waiting room, he will regularly be found propping up the bar after games on a Saturday (as all good rugby players should be). We grabbed a minute of his time....

Name: Darrell Conlan.

Age: 52 years young (I think).

Previous clubs: Why would I want to play anywhere else?

Favourite film
The Longest Day or A Bridge Too Far (so many hero’s in these films regardless of how Americanised they are).

Favourite food
Biscuits so I’m told.

Who is your hero/idol?
It’s a cliché but has to be my Dad.

Favourite rugby moment
So many to choose from but I suppose I’ll plump for the one that the invincible ever winning Hutchinson Cup 3’s side always recall which is, on the banana pitch against Maidstone I think, the ball being turned over by us and taken from our 22 with great forward and back interplay to end up with Jonny Wells and myself linking twice to get to just beyond the oppositions 22 for the final pass from me going to Jonny for him to run to the try line and score. Unfortunately he goes passed it into the dead ball area and, more or less, into the woods behind without putting the ball down. A classic ‘Forest Gump’ moment.

Person you would most like to be at Old Gs and why
Going to go with Kenny ‘Cardigan’ Price as he’s just starting he’s rugby career so got to be a bit jealous of that and the fact that he’s got many playing years in front of him.

Person you would least like to be at Old Gs and why
Going to have to go with the old favourite, as declared by many others who’ve done this, and that’s Laurence ‘Loz’ Coleman as I couldn’t live with such a small phallus.

Best player you have played with
There’s been a number over the years from fearless individuals such as Gary Lodder, Glenn Robinson and Andy Flindell (RIP) to those skilful ones such as Jim Fenton or John and Pat Foreman.

Professional rugby player you would compare yourself to
Got to be Richard Hill.

If you were not a rugby player what would you be?
A true couch potato.

Interesting fact about you that no one at Old Gs know
There is a portrait of me in a loft somewhere that is slowly decaying (Dorian Gray reference for those youngsters who don’t understand the analogy) or that it’s been pointed out to me that I could now be the longest serving member of the club still regularly playing.

Which actor/actress would play you in a film about your life?
Alan Ladd (that’s definitely going to send the younger generation rushing for Google).

(if you had to) Which 3 Old Gs players would you take to a remote desert island with you…and why?
- Paul John ‘Mother’ Mitchell - as he looks after us all.
- Andrew William ‘Weeble’ Hinde - as he doesn’t forget a thing so his tall stories would regale us and he’s built in ‘TwatNav’ would mean we wouldn’t get lost.
- and finally a tossup between Colin ‘that man’ Gwynne and Phil ‘Fred West’ Boyer so with Colin being a moany old so and so and not having the longevity of Phil, or his ability to find food and alcohol, Phil would be the third.