Rugby Club Issue 59 | Page 66

Sheffield Tigers FOLLOW US ONLINE TWITTER.COM/RUGBYCLUBMAG Sheffield Tigers RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL CLUB S heffield Tigers RUFC currently competes in National League 3 North and their first team has made a fine start to their league campaign this season. Their Secretary, Tim Waller, recently took the time to speak with Rugby Club Magazine. Involvement The Personnel He told us, “I was honoured to be elected secretary and am in my second season as such. Previously I was assistant secretary and for many years was on the juniors’ committee in various roles. My old club was in Cheshire but Tigers welcomed my whole family when we enrolled our son at the age of 8, some 12 years ago.” “Andy Barnes is the club captain and is leading us for the third season. ‘Barnesy’ is a top notch back row player, previously at Rotherham Titans and is Robshaw - like in that he is comfortable playing across the whole back row. Our head coach is Ben Wade who is ex-Rotherham Titans and a feared back rower until very recently. Ben is in his first season with us having taken over after our first match this year when Steve Salvin left for a post at Worcester Warriors with the club’s best wishes and thanks. Richard Selkirk is our vice chair playing and played number 8 for us, Titans and Yorkshire and oversees the rugby side of the club. Dave ‘Stinger’ Holmes is a Yorkshire legend as a scrum half who won England ‘B’ (Saxons as they would be now) caps and played numerous times for Yorkshire alongside other legends such as Alan Old. Stinger looks after the 2nd XV and has been helped this year by Richard Senior who was a 10 for Tigers for many years.” About Us “We are a ‘proper’ rugby club in that, due to the hard work of a lot of people in the past, we have a decent clubhouse and own both it and our own pitches. The infamous ‘Eiger’ has a slope that can render a 20 point half time lead playing down it meaningless, while the front pitch must have one of the best views in the league looking right across Sheffield. Training in the summer or under lights when the sky darkens, the city lights up and the stars come out which is a thing of beauty! On a Saturday the exposed nature and high altitude of the front pitch, gentle slope and less than gentle biting wind that blows across it, has made it a bit of a fortress. In years gone by against lesser opposition the game has been won on a bad day the minute the visitors stepped off the coach and fought their way through a howling gale and driving rain towards the changing rooms! On a warmer, calmer day there is nowhere better to play and watch rugby.” 66 Issue 59 Facilities “The club was formed in 1932 and has been playing at Dore Moor for most of that time. We have three full size pitches, one being floodlit, plus an area covering one and a half pitches which has been used in the past for younger junior teams. At present, the possibility of an artificial training area on the site is being explored.