Name:	Dave Martingale
Nickname:	"DM" or "Big Dave"
Born:	March 11th 1947 in Halifax, Yorkshire
Weight:	16st 8lbs
Height:	5ft 11"
Position:	Tight Head but as everybody will have heard when I have had a pint, I used to be a centre!
Job:	Self employed commission sales agent in textile industry
Education:	Rastrick Grammar School, Brighouse, Yorks. Strangely not a Rugby school we played that round ball thing. I was no good at i

First Season	1990/91
No of Games	112
For 1st XV	still waiting !
Number of Tries	2 - both crackers though
Tries for 1st	0
Captain	Now a Team Manager
Match Day Superstitions	"I like the whole team to go out on the pitch as a unit. It's worth five points."
Most Admired International Player	"At my age I have seen so many greats but it has to be Tony Neary ex England and Broughton Park. He was every thing a back row man should be, fast strong, fearless, never ever stopped running. Also enjoyed life off the field. Shame he was last heard of detained at Her Majesty's pleasure." Most Admired Witney Player "John Campbell (J.C.). Always gives 110%, attitude is always positive, always fit. Pound for pound, as good a flanker as you will get. He is also fun off the field."
Favourite Rugby Tour	"Cornwall 1990. First match I played for Witney at Bodmin. I got me back into the game after a long break. The downside was sharing a room with Chris Delaney and Keith Sykes!."
Most Embarrassing moment on the Pitch	Long before I came to Witney. Throwing myself over the line thinking I had got the match winner only to find it was a newly installed drainage line three feet from the real try line.
Most Embarrasing moment off the Pitch	During the first Dublin tour I had bowel trouble in a public car park in Temple Bar. Everybody ran away and pretended they did not know me
Best Match for Witney	Not one I played in. Third team 1999/200 we put over fifty points on Bicester at Witney after they had broken an agreement over replacements when we had played them earlier in the season at Bicester. It gave me a lot of pleasure that one!
Worst Match for Witney	Under the floodlights at Banbury two years ago against Gosford. It dawned on me that I was past it and should pack up.
How to improve training	It is each player's responsibility to be fit. I have always believed that if you want to be any good you need to train in between Club sessions by yourself or whatever.
Remaining Rugby Ambitions	I want to see Witney progress as far as we can as a Club but not to lose the atmosphere we have created. We somehow need to recruit more players and perhaps more importantly more experienced off field people.
Miscellaneous	Previous Clubs : Rastrick ARLFC, Huddersfield RLFC, Dewsbury RLFC, Chester RUFC. Editors Comment Dave is one of those characters you don't forget too easily. He is a steady Guinness drinker and I have seen him first hand in Dublin on a number of occasions. On the first night one tour/weekend, he felt unwell so stayed in the first pub we visited near the hotel while the rest of us moved on. The next morning he told us he felt better after scooping a "couple" of pints the night before, to "settle his stomach". I was also witness to the car park incident he refers to and it is still the only "front skidmark" I have ever seen. After a whole day on the black stuff, he admitted to me he was feeling a bit better now - unfortunately the rest of us by this time were wasted ! On the Leeds Tour, Mikey the Fish and I accompanied DM for a quiet few beers in the evening after an eventful journey north. Suffice to say that he was in by far the best condition by the end of the night. A few away trips also spring to mind with DM's driving of the mini bus in the 2nds Merit Table visit to Milton Keynes two seasons ago a particularly good memory - enough said. Nowadays, he has hung up his boots and is doing a fantastic job managing the teams. As always he remains the most impersonated person in the club.