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A Kent rugby club has banded together to perform a cover of a famous Westlife song to remember better days.
Sittingbourne Rugby Club's senior men's team put together a compilation of home made videos from players and staff putting their own spin in the Irish boyband's My Love.
The idea behind the video, which has amassed more than 3,500 views on YouTube, came as the players missed being on the pitch and decided to get creative.
The brains behind the idea Scrum Half Jamie Talbot said the idea came to him when he was in the shower listening to the 2000 hit.
He said: "I heard it while I was in the shower and it was at the height of missing rugby and every lyric seemed to apply to being together and playing together.
"I approached as many players a possible and convinced them to lip sync over song most had never apparently heard of.
"It took a bit of pestering them with microphone emojis for two months but I eventually got about 35 clips together and most of them were useable, some not so much."
Watch: Sittingbourne Rugby Club perform a cover of Westlife's My Love
Jamie brought in the help of friends Adam Broderick who co-directed and put the clips together with him, and Shauni Bailey who helped with the music.
He added: "We spent a week editing, tweaking, begging a few non-participants for some backing vocals along the way."
The three-minute videos shows pictures of the club in Key Street, Sittingbourne, looking deserted with their empty pitches, the bar and chairs players stand on after the games.
"Many have given us feedback that it made them "unusually emotional," Jamie said.
"There was good performances from Jake Nightingale, Rory Brandon, Dave Bishop, chairman Roger Down, Shaun Hamilton, Harry Talbot and Alan Sharman.
"A special shout out to some of the guys who got creative including James Hobson who appears in the shower, Dave Bishop who had a full gig setup and Doug Ritchie who was sporting a mohawk in his garden."
The scrum half said the video was "a bit of fun in lockdowns" and that the team will have a return single out when they're back together.
