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year, and the club works continuously
to maintain the relationship with school
leavers.
The off season will see a major overhaul
of the playing surface, in tandem with the
Nat West Task Force day, and further to a
grant from the RFU following a visit from
Keith Kent Head RFU Groundsman at
Twickenham.
The Mini section began just five
seasons ago, with a fledgling 70 children,
and now sees over 300 children training
at the club every Sunday. The transition
to senior rugby is a way off yet, OCs
currently run teams up to U12, but the
future sees ambitious plans for youth
rugby, and subsequent transition to
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senior sides to augment the traditional
recruitment paths.
Old Cranleighans (known universally
as OCs) are a family friendly club that
has captured the imagination of the
local community. Social events, school
training sessions, weekly touch rugby, all
initiatives the club has fostered and which
the local populace has embraced.
The club travels to Romania on tour
the week after the Twickenham success,
and will play Dracula Old Boys in the
national stadium in Bucharest. Always a
highlight of the season, Tour promises to
be as popular as always.
The club faces stiff local competition,
in an area with more rugby clubs than
anywhere else in the country, and
continues to address the shortfall in
playing numbers nationwide. With
success in the RFU Junior Vase and a step
up to London South West leagues, the
popularity of the club is at a high, and the
Chairman highlights the intent to build on
the goodwill, whilst also retaining the fun,
humour and spirit that rugby nurtures so
zealously.
The OOOOOCCCCs rallying cry rang
out across Twickenham, the party that
followed echoed long into the night, and
the club has every intention of harnessing
this spectacular success and moving
forward into a bright future.