BillB I am currently fighting the pre season battle, My rugby Club says "Come back to pre-season, we need a couple o good props" I say, I am RETIRED!! And my right ankle no longer works properly. It doesn't seem to dissuade them.
And props are not thugs, we are simply masters of a dark art known to few, and feared by the weak, callow and foppish. You know them, they're called backs.