Real Player Profile: Mark Chisholm

Mark Chisholm…

Despite having the biggest guns in World Rugby (you may recognise him from a recent Qantas advertising campaign) this giant of a man has been the cornerstone of the ACT Brumbies tight five for teh past few seasons. Mark made his Test debut in 2004 and has been an outstanding team player who can play 2nd row and backrow. He has the remarkable honour of being apart of 34 of the last 36 test matches.

Big Chis has recently come to fame as the poster boy of Qantas, where after scoring a try during the 2006 domestic test season he held a right flexed bicept pose for about 30 seconds, ingoring the pleas from teammates to return to half way. Suprise suprise he was snapped by a photographer and the rest is history.

This year Mark declined strong offers from the Queensland Reds to stay with his beloved Brumbies. Apparently, now that he runs the set piece at the Brumbies he prefers to be known as the "Lineout General" while about town in Canberra. Chis is on a strict diet from Wallaby medical staff not allowing any sugar after 2pm in the fear of an energy spike which leads to out of control giggling.

Mark is a great team man and always fun to be around. In his spare time he loves nothing more than having his 3year old son Zac read him a bedtime story.