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► Robbie Lucas

Robbie Lucas - Hulltimate President 2000/03, Captain 2002/03, Hull Open 2003/08

Lucas, Robbie - from the latin Pervertus meaning stalker.

Young Bob came to us at roughly the same height is now, hes likely a little shorter now as every time he bids for a disc, he hits peoples arms.  Bad times.

Hes been around since the dawn of time, touting short stubby legs and a disturbingly hairy chest, topped off by classicly Sheffield looks, down t'pit n all that.  Young Bob is one of our elders, having led us through the dark times, from the void and into the light of Open Ultimate. Affectionatly known as Roboss, formerly Weeman, Robbie used to drive our minibus, but has since moved to the passenger seat, beverage in hand, and is on standby for any time Matt gets busted up bad enough to not drive, and of course to rush off to any student tournaments he can get to...just for the party...

With an inability to "seal the deal" so to speak, Robbie is slowly becoming part of the scenery, destined to be playing for Hulltimate until his zimmerframe and bus pass come through...which might be shortly due to PWE being buggered royale style!

After playing Ultimate at school he was pleasantly surprised (object being forced into mouth noises) to find that when he came to uni in 1999 Hull had a team. Turning up to the first training session disc in hand he was promptly shown by then captain Yat that what he had was actually a toy disc compared to an Ultimate disc. he also learnt that the game he was playing was completely different to Ultimate (probably coz him and his mates made up the rules based on what they could remember from when it was on Activ-8 and the Frosties adverts) and that there were loads more throws to be used than a backhand. Luckily back then in the stone age they had one of the best players in the country Zaid Rawi to teach them. It wasn’t long before young Bob ventured to his first ever tournament, Edinburgh Beginners the only beginners tournament in the country back then. Having never been more north than West Hartlepool before, Robbie found himself in uncharted terretory, with a mix of accents being barraged about his small bean head, his head imploded.  Simple as that.  He also notes it was  great to get to go to Scotland and a great introduction into how much fun Ultimate tournaments are. In 2000 the Lucas/Fulford era began when Robbie and Mark took over as President and Captain respectively. His best year was in 2005 when at Nationals Division 2 after having just missed out on qualifying for Division 1 in the absence of captain Chris Lee young Bob captained us to our best ever finish, 8^th place ranking us 24^th in the country out of the 120 odd teams from the UK and Ireland that originally took part in qualifying (but who’s counting) and then in October him and Siddsy coached our newbs to winning Sheffield Beginners (one of his proudest moments).

Robbie now spends his time in the old Ultimate players home, rocking back and forth, breaking the nurses when they try and "D" him.  We tried to tell him it was all illusion, and that if he just took his pills it would be ok, alas he now establishes a pivot foot to urinate, an proceedes to "fake out" the porcelan, something the cleaners havent taken to kindly too.

And thus the bio of our oldest fart closes, with him playing scrabble with Mavis from down t'corridor...

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