Simon "Ted" Tedridge

Name: Simon Tedridge Debut: 1996 Honours: Captain 1998-1999. Intra-mural champion 1998, 1999 and 2000; Teddy’s 10s 2003 winner; Brussels 10s finalist 2004; Tallinn 10s 2005 winner; Teddy’s 7s 2005 plate winner. Tries: 7 since 1998

Thinning, still-using-hotmail former-Hands-captaining Andover-dwelling performer of terrible things “the unfortunate” Simon Tedridge is a keen “royal watcher” and has shaken hands with Prince Charles on 7 different occasions in Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh, York, Dover and Reading (twice). His proudest moment was when he appeared very briefly on the 6 o’clock news in 1996 handing a bouquet of flowers to Princess Anne from the crowd. Simon collects Valentines cards. A proportion of donations to the Wandering Hands will be put towards the cost of Ted’s next night out in Salisbury. Ted has played everywhere except, to your correspondent’s knowledge, in the front row.