From Leigh Simmons
man, this is so hard to rationalise - just think of all the people who have
been touched in some way by his life, it may have seemed insignificant at
the time but every thought or smile provoked seem so important now.
my overiding memory is of jogging from maccy d's in leicester back up to the
pitches for sundays first game. we shared the opinion that a bacon and egg
mcmuffin was more important than the first 15 minutes. i'd first spoken to
him the day before. he'd had a bit of niggle with another young bundle of
fury from the other team. it really annoyed me. i dismissed him as just
someone i'd never get on with. within 3 or 4 hours we were sitting in a pub
together, warming up for our last game and talking nonsense. and by sunday
morning, there we were, jogging up late, trying to put on socks and boots on
the hoof, laughing and shouting. we were mates.
leigh
From Toby Holt
I don't really have any specific memory of James.
I do remember that when I first started going to GB Juniors practices
that I didn't really have the confidence to believe that I could.
This made me think that I could get in the team
and it gave me a lot of confidence when he kept
encouraging me.
I also remember that he taught me so much about Ultimate.
He was also such a fun person and he never said one horrible thing to me. I will
miss him a lot.
Toby