Unfortunately, holidays and hospital appointments conspired to affect the number of GROGs present at the first Lunch of the new season. Nevertheless, there were still 92 present to enjoy a fine meal and entertaining talk from former internationalist and current Glasgow Warriors’ skills coach, Peter Horne. Peter explained that he hadn’t been quite sure what to say and that, as he had come along at relatively short notice, he had little time to prepare it anyway. He needn’t have worried because his solution to those problems was as interesting as it was novel. With a sideways swipe at Whitecraigs RFC in his father’s playing days, Peter described his introduction to rugby and how he had come to love the game so much. As he had played for Warriors for 14 years he thought he’d describe the dream team he would put together, chosen from among his team-mates during that time. Intriguing information and fun stories followed starting off with how he had managed to knock out one of his own side with a ball kicked to the back of his head - Gordon Reid, his choice as loose head prop! There isn’t room here to describe each selection because, with each one there was a background, or occasional dressing room, story, most of which would never have been printed in a Club programme or a rugby magazine. It was fascinating to hear so many behind the scenes stories of such well kent names such as Leone Nakarawa, Rob Harley, a previous GROGS speaker, whom he fondly described as “a complete weirdo” and Josh Strauss, among others. Many of Peter’s choices might have been predicted by the rugby savvy audience but one which did raise the collective eyebrows slightly was his choice of fly half. The popular guess might have gone for Finn Russell but, no, Peter favoured Dan Parks, a player he has tried to model himself on both on and off the pitch. Peter’s description of this dream team was peppered with superlatives and told with clear fondness. He finished with a Q & A session, handled with knowledge and aplomb. Peter’s speaking career has got off to an excellent start which proved to be a bonus to GROGS and well deserving of the bottle of Famous GROGS Whisky he was then presented with.