Warringah Rats Cuban Tour: ‘Our Men In Havana’
by Paul Cook -
It may not have been quite the culture shock of Kenya back in 2011, but Warringah’s recent humanitarian rugby tour to Cuba was still an eye opener and an experience that will live long in the memory for the 22 strong touring party. The two games that their eleven day visit was wrapped around were keenly contested, enjoyed by all and proved to be a big hit amongst the local baseball loving onlookers but as with Kenya, it was events off the field that were the real focus and the true legacy of the trip for those involved.
Rats players, Glenn Pritchard and Tristan Stanley, were both veterans of the visit to the slums of Nairobi two years ago and despite encountering and facing up to the horrors they witnessed