Fifteen-to-one: Stuart Hooper

By Ben Blackmore   Last updated: 31st July 2007

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Skysports.com is pleased to announce the return of "Fifteen-to-One", the quick-fire question-and-answer session that provides an access-all-areas insight into the Guinness Premiership.

Providing players with the rare opportunity to name and shame their fellow team-mates, "Fifteen-to-One" finds answers to the most pressing of questions.

For example: Who is your club's biggest drinker? Who is the dressing room dunce?

Leeds' captain Stuart Hooper answers April's questions,Ǫ

Stuart Hooper

15. What age did you start playing rugby?

SH: 14

14. Which club did you support?

SH: Bristol

13. Which players did you admire as a youngster?

SH: Martin Johnson and Jonah Lomu.

12. Who is the best player in your position?

SH: Chris Jack. Whenever he plays he's exceptional - does the basics well and adds a bit of flair.

11. Do you have a nickname?

SH: Hoops - fairly straight-forward really. We call Lee Blackett 'the emu' because of his new running style since breaking his leg!

10. Footballers: Talented superstars or glorified actors? 

SH: Glorified actors at the moment.

9. What's the best excuse you've heard for missing a training session? 

SH: I fell out of bed and knocked myself out on an alarm clock - player to remain nameless! All I'll say is it was last season!

8. Who is the hardest opponent you've faced?

SH: Danny Grewcock.

7. Which Leeds player has the worst dress sense?

SH: James Parkes. Pink jumpers are not cool!

6. Who is most likely to use hair-straighteners?

SH: Kearnan Myall definitely. He's the only one with hair long enough for straightening!

5. Which player has the worst taste in music?

SH: Andy Tuilagi. Samoan rock!

4. Best/worse moves on the dancefloor?

SH: Best moves? There's a few good movers up here you know! Chris Jones, he's very individual when drunk!

3. Could anyone in the squad drink Jason Leonard under the table?

SH: A few could give it a good go, but I'll say Tommy McGee after recent exploits!

2. Who's the practical joker?

SH: There's a mystery man at the moment going round cutting the ends off people's socks but I'm not sure who it is!

1. Who's the slowest?

SH: He'll hate this - Tom Biggs!

Click for an extended interview with the Leeds man in "CROSSING THE GAIN-LINE"