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Oyster ShakText Box: Player Detail
Text Box: Position: Coach

Positions Played: Scrumhalf, Flanker, #8, Flyhalf, Inside Outside Wing, Fullback

Birth date: 5/5/52

Height: 5’ 10”

Weight: 205

Year Started Playing: 1976

Year Started Hammerheads: 1976

College: Georgia Southern University1977-1979

Teams Played for: Golden Isles Hammerheads, Ga. Southern, Savannah Shamrocks, Atlanta Renegades, High Country, Asptt-France, Cos-Nancy-France

Occupation:  Sr. Parole Officer

Favorite Team: Of Course….France

Best Rugby Memory: Refereeing Bristol, England vs. Golden Isles on their USA tour in August 1995

Worst Rugby Memory: Maytoid Collision resulting in a broken jaw

Accomplishments: Being Able to still play after 32 years
Quotes: It takes us nine months to get out and the rest of our lives to get back in!
Rugby is an animals sport played by gentlemen, Soccer is a gentleman’s sport played by animals, football is an animal’s sport played by animals!!!
Bonus: Pat has been a C1 level Referee for 15 years and maintains Certified USA RUGBY Coaching Competence
Text Box: Rugby Ball Cookout, Apr 2008
Text Box: Patrick Thornton     Coach      patthor1@netscape.net