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peruse further education in different areas of the country.
The fact is that this has had a huge impact on our first team
setup and having to travel on one occasion this season with
14 players, then ending up with 12 due to injuries.
In fairness to the players that are still turning out they’ve
kept a more positive attitude than you’d expect them to.”
Youth
“The youth section at the club is quite a success, fielding
eight age groups up to under 16s and most ages are
well supported. Next season our under 16’s group will
be restarting in the colts section. This we feel can only
be good for us and for a small club like ours it is a huge
achievement and is the main way to getting the senior part
of the club back on its feet. We are under no illusion as to
how important the youth section is for the future survival
of the club.”
Facilities
“Off the field we are experiencing various challenges with
trying to keep the old building in service. We’ve looked at
various schemes in the past and are currently perusing one
that would hopefully see our current clubhouse facility be
replaced with a new one.
This isn’t the first time in the last 10 years that this has been
a possibility and unfortunately this has led to maintenance
being kept to a minimum. Nearly all the maintenance on
the club house is carried out by volunteers and more often
than not the materials are being donated as well.
The clubhouse, although dated, still proves to be playing
a big part in the community, with weddings, birthdays
etc. being held at the club as well as a slimming club and
Zumba classes.
We also have rented part of the club out to the local
boxing club and a gymnasium, so the place is fairly well
used by the community.”
Ambitions
“Our plan for this season, as far as senior rugby goes, is
to purely fulfil all our fixtures and try to stay afloat in
the league we are currently in. We can then hopefully
start rebuilding for next season to put us in a stronger
position and re-start our second team fixtures. The
junior section, hopefully, will be nurtured in to the colts
section once again to help bring through new players for
the senior section.
Our long term business plans would be to rebuild the club
house from scratch and cut our liabilities, overheads and
burdens to a minimum. This in the future would hopefully
then put more of an emphasis on the rugby rather than on
keeping the place financially afloat!”
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