Sheffield Tigers
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Sheffield
Tigers
RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL CLUB
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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.”
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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.