Rugby Club Issue 56 | Page 52

perranporth FOLLOW US ONLINE TWITTER.COM/RUGBYCLUBMAG “I joined Perranporth towards the end of my rugby career, having moved back to Cornwall and to the Perranporth area in approximately 1998. I set up the youth section assisted by a couple of parents at the start of the 2005/06 season as I wanted somewhere locally to take my own boys. We started off with a handful of players aged between 6 and 9 years. It took a couple of years to establish the mini/junior section and since then each year an age group joined at the younger end. The section has grown, with squads at just about every age group from U6-U16. We are just at the point where we hope to have a Colts side for the first time for quite a few years, with my Under 16’s moving up into this age group and we hope to GG&7B