greenock
wanderers
Youth
“Youth development is essential for
us. We do not buy players in, so rely on
our very successful youth program to
generate our future Senior Teams. The
Youth section is also key to the financial
success of the club and helps us generate
Sponsorship.
We are one of few clubs in Scotland
who have teams at every age group.
We insist that the coaches are properly
trained and attain a minimum Coaching
standard. We have an RDO (Regional
Development Officer) that is heavily
involved in Recruiting kids from schools
in the local area and have started our
own Club Youth Academy.
The ultimate goal of this is to produce
International Players, and to increase the
overall standard of Rugby at our club
through high quality specialist coaching
(Glasgow Warriors & SRU Players and
Coaches) and high performance training,
to ensure they are physically ready for
the challenges of senior rugby.”
Community
“We are absolutely a Community Club
and that role is growing all the time. We
are situated in a very Football focused
area of the country and work very hard
to ensure the town and surrounding area
know who we are and what we offer.
We are very inclusive of all age groups
including a social and veterans team,
and are hoping to start developing Girls
Youth teams to help supply our Senior
ladies team. Our clubhouse is open to
non-members for bookings and we often
host business meetings, corporate events
and other club’s meetings or parties.”
Challenges
Ambitions
“We are very much a bottoms up club,
having built an infrastructure and
management team to take us forward,
however keeping our Senior Players at
the club and maintaining our league
position are key.
In order to do that we need to produce
more quality players who will stay in the
area. We lose a lot of talent to other clubs
and Universities as well as people moving
out of town for work commitments or
shift working. Managing this by not
spending money on recruiting external
players or putting the club in debt is a
real challenge.”
“We have a 5 year plan, much of which
we have already accomplished (Building
New Clubhouse, introducing a Youth
Academy and to have a Ladies Team
competing in the National Leagues).
However we do need to extend our
Clubhouse to help us generate additional
Income and, despite our league position
this season, we are working to become a
Premier 1 Club.”
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