P353 CEEFAX 2 353 Fri 31 Jan 21:12/22 U OOL CJEFAX INTERVIEWS ROB ANDREW 1/7 Q: How much longer do you think you will j p p a n ? @ A: As long as my legs keep carrying me around. I am only just coming up to 3% so I have got a few years in mu yet. Q: Do you find com"inink the roles of plazjng and managing difficult? A: At times I do. I think you have to bj pretty disciplinjdW As a player, mz first priority has to bj m pjtformancj on the field but at th moment I m njoy n v m n t . FURTHER DET—ILK ON P—GER 351-354 Andrew 4 Rugby +al v Ir Comp'tionP353 CJJFAX 2 353 Fri 31 Van 21:17/42 U OOO CEEFAX INTJRVIJWS ROB ANDREW 2/7 Q: Would you have liked England to have adopte a mo jxpansjv g me in your playing eta? A: I think all that is pretty much old hat now. We had a side that was well organised and we played to the sttingths that those players had. Ultimately, we weti very successful. You can always look back at things and think how you could have changed it. IJ a pjreict world, we would score 24 tries evjty game and run the ball from everywhere but sport ism't like that. WEN VIP FIVE NATIONS TIC EST — 358 Andrew 4 Rugby +al v Ire CompgtionP353 CEEFAX 2 353 Fri 31 Jan 41:12/39 W CJJFAX INT RVIJWS ROB ANDREW 3O7 Q: So the ends justified the means with the way England played at that time? A Given verythjng that happen d, I wouldn't swap anything, apart from wanting to play the World Cup final of 1991 against Australia again. i that an tim fo . That match is the only real regret I have got in my whol career. FIVE NATIONS/RUGBY INDEX ON PAGE 370 Football 302 Cricket 340 TV News 600 Andrew 4 Rugby Wal v Ire Comp'tionP353 CJEFAX 2 353 Fri 31 Jan 21:17/20 U ££" £ , . CJJF!X JNTJRVIJWS ROB AVDRJW 4O7 Q: You got your revenge in the 1995 World Cup ag@inst the Wallabies. Was that the pinnacle for you? A: As a on -off mom nt in tim , with m drop goal winnjt and the game that it was, it has to j u thjt , y I think overall, there wets biggez achievements like the first Grand Slam in '91 and then three grand slams in four years was pretty imXressjvj. It is pretty difficult to relive the split ec d w j at d op goal we t ovjt though. It was dream stuff riall=. WEN VIP FIVE NATION T CKETS — 358 Andrew 4 Rugby Wal v Ire CompgtionP353 CJJFAX 2 353 Fri 31 Jan 21:12/57 j£3kj£3 j£3k O CJEFAX INTERVIEWS ROB ANDREW 5O7 Q: A lot was said about your England rivalry w th Stu r Bar but how did the two of you get on with each othjt? A: Wj got on particularly well when you consider the 10 years of competition we had between us. It stretched back right from Oxbridge days through to England Under-23 level and the full England set-up. We were always at each othjt's necks in terms of playing but we njvet allowed that to develop into any bad feeling and that was ttimjndous really. FIVE NATIONS/RUGBY INDEX ON P cE 370 Foot all 3 2 Cri kit 340 TV N w 600 Andrew , Rugb Wal v Ire Comp'tionP353 CEEFAX 2 353 Fri 31 Jan 21:09/43 ///-,,-./-,,-.,/,//// O/ CJEFAX INTERVIEWS ROB AVDREW 6/7 Q: W t was your xpj i nce like with Toulous and the Fr nch cl b scen ? A: I really enjoyed it. It was great u z d ompl t ly d f t w of life, which was hard to get used to in the beginning. The w l clu cen in th outh w t of France is fantastic and it is going to bj v y mu h a part of th futur of professional rugby. Wj saw it last Saturday with Breve winning the European Cup and that was an outstanding advert for French rugby. ————— INTERVIEW BY JOHN MATH WS ———— FURTHER DET—ILK ON PAGES 359-354 Andrew 4 Rugby Wal v Ire Comp tionP353 CJEFAX 2 353 Fri 31 Jan 21:16/36 Wj£3kj£3kj£3k W"£££"£££"£££$///O/-,,-./-,,-.,/,/////// CEEFAX INTERVIEWS ROB ANDREW 7/7 Q: Yhut int back tg +abut af et Q but when you lift for Newcastle, you didn't p rt o good terms did you? A: Thjti was a little bi of conflisu in the sense t at i was a big ch n fo mj and a big change in the game. A couple of guys came with me from 'asps because they wanted to and some people at the club found that hQrd to com to t rms with. A lot of othei people understood. Wasps are a lo strongjt now with the link with QPR and so on. (turn to page 35,) WIN VIP FIVE NATIONS TJCSETS — 358 Andrhw 4 Rugby Cam v Iud Comp tion