Saracens players Chris Wyles and Adam Powell visited the centre to answer questions from their fans and show off their bowling skills.

The players spent two hours with the children and had photographs taken, signed autographs and showed off the Aviva Premiership trophy. Saracens mascot Sarrie the Camel took part in a bowling challenge against Hollywood Bowl’s opposite number, Bumper.

The Saracens players were visiting the centre in order to promote their upcoming clash against Harlequins at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, March 31st.

Matt Sach, Hollywood Bowl Watford centre manager, said: “We’ve had a full house all day, with a vast number of enquiries from members of the public. I’ve never hosted an event which has generated so much excitement.”

For more information on the event please contact Hollywood Bowl Watford on 0844 826 1473 or visit http://www.hollywoodbowl.co.uk

For more information on the Saracens v Harlequins clash on Saturday, March 31st please visit http://www.saracensatwembley.com

For anyone out there who is looking to do business with Jeremy Beynon, I warn them never to trust him, and to avoid him at all cost.

“Max, I work everyday at paying back all my debts, I have not forgotten about what I owe you and it will be paid. Regards,…”

As you can imagine, I explained that I didn’t believe him – requesting my money by Friday and he has offered:

“Max, I have no money, I lost my job before xmas and am in no position to pay you by Friday. I am sorry and I will pay all back”

Jeremy will never pay me back – people like him don’t. But I am most saddened by the fact that he thinks the money is the only problem, Jeremy Beynon doesn’t seem to grasp that he has done anything wrong. He thinks it’s fine to offer payment after more than a year of ignoring emails and indeed, never actually intending to pay in the first place.

If you currently do business with Jeremy Beynon of Sydney, Australia – or if indeed you are thinking about it, please be warned – he never pays. He never fulfils any commitment and he lies through his teeth to try and get a leg up from anyone he can get hold of to meet his own ends. While we all are left with work done and no payment – others even more badly treated (see above) – Jeremy Beynon and his family are enjoying the sun down in Sydney, popping over to NZ for xmas.

Well – merry xmas Jeremy Beynon, I am sure you still have that lovely big smile on your face – please – feel free to leave your comment here on the site for all to read.

I met Jer in 2003 at the Oz RWC when I was the Nike Marketing Manager for Rugby in SA. We hit it off like all rugby ‘brothers’.

Staying in touch on HG.com and part-time blogs and articles for Jer from 2004 to 2010 were some of my most enjoyable moments behind a laptop.

Come 2007 saw me loose a job with (another) Oz firm when they closed their SA office. Thus I was unemployed from 2007 through 2009 and HG was a refuge and also a promise of better things thanks to Jer’s prmise to have me over in Oz some day. He did pay on occassion but I saw a bigger picture.

In 2009 he asked me to head up his international development of HG and promised a monthly salary and also wanted me to find teams he could sponsor. I (stupidly) got the school side I coached to agree to wear HG sponsored kit on their tour of Argentina.

I (again, stupidly) took money from my small business that I had started to pay for the HG kit to be made – against the will of my wife (worst thing to do!).

And, yip – just like the rest of you. I never saw the money from him or the kit sponsorship. This cost me around R35,000-00. Not much in pounds or dollars (around GB7,000-00) but it pretty much sank me due to the fact that I never caught that money up again. I had ‘borrowed from Peter to pay Paul’ within my own business and for HG and lost!

So I now sit in a job that I don’t really feel is worth my skills and am trying really hard to get my business back on its feet. All at the expense of my wife’s trust in me and my family! He had promised that he would pay for me and my family to move to Syndey to grow HG.com. I ended up looking like fool to my wife’s parents and my family… They must have smelt a rat and I ignored all of them!

I agree with those who say I was stupid and should have not been so trusting or naive with money. But when you have a daily conversation and hour-long business calls with someone over 5 years it is hard not to believe them. Especially when it comes to rugby people – because I am an eternal rugby fan. The game gave me all I have in life and I will almost always give back to the game and people in the game as a result!

I even forgave Jer in my heart! I feel sorry for him in a way, I just wish he would have told me he was in trouble or couldn’t pay me.

The game is greater than us all and I think we all learn from these lessons. Some more than others! Max – I did post a message on HG’s Facebook page in 2010 about my issues with Jer in the hope that others would not get burnt. I was upset and tried not to be nasty to him. I feel I lost a mate and a dream – even a bit of confidence in rugby people was lost.

I sincerely hope it doesn’t happen to other people and if Jeremy ever reads this – mate, I feel for you! I have forgiven you and will always be slighlty upset with you but it is NEVER to late to make up with people.

Yours in Rugby
Ian Wright
South Africa

I used to blog for Jeremy on a regular basis, mainly as a hobby before a little bit of cash work for match reports was offered. I jumped at the opportunity and whilst it was only a feeble amount, it wasn’t paid due to very similar reasons outlined above (IBan numbers etc.)

What is more annoying is the effort I went to for a more recent article looking at funding for development and whether as much was going to grass-roots as fans are being told. As you can imagine, this took up a lot of time and effort, as well as numerous hours worth of research before being assured by Jeremy it would go online after his “lawyers” had looked at it. I was sure there was nothing wrong with it and was eager to get it on the website as I appreciated the exposure previously (which is now clearly thanks to Max’s efforts!).

However, low and behold, the site went awol, Jeremy shut down his twitter account and nothing has been heard from him since.

Sorry to all those who have lost out financially to this joker, hopefully he gets stung at some point in the very near future!

Not only did I encounter all of the above and more, but I even was lucky (UNLUCKY) enough to get a formal job offer, and was given the run around in a manner which I never believed to be possible.

Got all the usual crap about family in hospital, lawyers delaying paperwork and so on.

I actually turned down a couple of legit offers at the end of 2009 cos he had promised me a part time position.

Luckily for me I the experience hasn’t destroyed my passion for rugby writing.

But do not, repeat do not, ever trust Jeremy Beynon.