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very stretched and we ended up loosing rather heavily every
game and got demoted, it was hard going.
“This season however the efforts of the committee and our club
members in recruiting players at all age levels has turned things
around along with new senior coach Craig Ferguson who has
the 1st team performing well. Youth rugby is also essential to
keeping the game alive, Rugby is in a great place at the moment
and to keep the momentum going it’s essential to keep youth
players progressing and to keep recruiting players at all levels.
“We try and take part in all community events within Strathaven
including gala day and the annual reindeer day which the club
are responsible for stewarding and helping to set up/sell tickets
for. We also openly advertise all of our games via social media
to invite people from the community into the club whether they
are members or not.
“We have a lot of talented players at Strathaven RFC so it
would be difficult to single any out but generally we get a lot
of players in the pathway teams and currently have a few explayers in development with Scotland.
“In the next five years our biggest challenges will be to keep
the clubs current momentum going and retain our players while
recruiting new players through the age grades. The club is
currently looking at a joint venture with the local football club,
Strathaven Dynamos, who don’t have their own facilities. This
joint venture will see a rugby ready 3G pitch along with some
expansion and modification to the club we currently have.
We see this as the start of something big and we want to push
the club to become a community sports hub so over the next 5
years our ambition will be to expand the uses of the club within
the community without taking focus away from our main use of
being a Rugby Club.”
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