Ben Kayser

[ourla]

Very interesting and enjoyable little watch:

https://youtu.be/6YPVsR75HpA

[Noggs]

Thanks for posting this.

We loved him when he played for Tigers and clearly it was mutual. He has had an interesting career and comes across as a rely nice bloke. Not sure what he is doing now but I would have thought he would have good potential as a scrums coach.

[sam16111986]

Thanks for posting this.

We loved him when he played for Tigers and clearly it was mutual. He has had an interesting career and comes across as a rely nice bloke. Not sure what he is doing now but I would have thought he would have good potential as a scrums coach.

He's doing media work now and he's well worth a listen. Talks lots of sense, clearly understands the game to a high level and has a good sense of humour. He's on the Good, the Bad the Rugby YouTube thing with Tindall and Gengey this week talking Tigers. I'd highly recommend catching that, he tells some good stories about Whitey amongst other things.

[Noggs]

Thanks for the heads up

[Tigers86asw]

Thanks for posting this.

We loved him when he played for Tigers and clearly it was mutual. He has had an interesting career and comes across as a rely nice bloke. Not sure what he is doing now but I would have thought he would have good potential as a scrums coach.

He's doing media work now and he's well worth a listen. Talks lots of sense, clearly understands the game to a high level and has a good sense of humour. He's on the Good, the Bad the Rugby YouTube thing with Tindall and Gengey this week talking Tigers. I'd highly recommend catching that, he tells some good stories about Whitey amongst other things.

Agree. Excellent show on tigers this week. Kayser speaks very well. Significantly better than many other pundits where English is their first language!

[sam16111986]

Thanks for posting this.

We loved him when he played for Tigers and clearly it was mutual. He has had an interesting career and comes across as a rely nice bloke. Not sure what he is doing now but I would have thought he would have good potential as a scrums coach.

He's doing media work now and he's well worth a listen. Talks lots of sense, clearly understands the game to a high level and has a good sense of humour. He's on the Good, the Bad the Rugby YouTube thing with Tindall and Gengey this week talking Tigers. I'd highly recommend catching that, he tells some good stories about Whitey amongst other things.

Agree. Excellent show on tigers this week. Kayser speaks very well. Significantly better than many other pundits where English is their first language!

Definitely. He's clearly an intelligent bloke. Just wish he'd stayed at Tigers longer. Hopefully we see more of him on rugby coverage in the UK, he did some of the 6N games and there seemed to be a lot of positive feedback to those appearances.

[MurphysLaw]

I agree with the comments about Benji's punditry - really insightful. I think I read somewhere that he spent time in the US when he was younger, hence his really good English.
The Good, the Bad and the Rugby episode with Geordan Murphy is also worth a listen - Murph went to his wedding and had an encounter with Benji's dad!

[ourla]

"A cosmopolitan man, born in Paris but with a chunk of his childhood spent between the US and Asia"

In the video he said that he first played rugby in Hong Kong.

[Pellsey]

He is commentating the game on France 3 this evening!

[kk20gb30]

All too short a time here .A fine player , fondly remembered.

[Tigers86asw]

All too short a time here .A fine player , fondly remembered.

Kayser told the story of how he was signed. Pichot acting as an agent for Hernandez- trying to get him the move to Tigers- ends up sitting next to Kayser in the stand at Stade and asks him what’s he’s doing next. Kayser has no idea so Pichot just texts Cohen and asks him what he thinks. Deal done before they play Tigers in the Champions cup a few weeks later!

[Soggypitch]

Great player, great guy and as others have intimated, his English is better than most of us local Leicesterites!!

[JP14]

I wish I could master French like he could English.

[Dokie]

I wish I could master French like he could English.

With you there 100%

[CJ]

Oh goodness. What a great bloke. I loved him when he was with us - sort of epitomises ‘once a Tiger, always a Tiger’.