Malpas
Malpas
RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB
M
alpas Rugby Club is the Welsh Rugby
Unions youngest club and will
celebrate their 10 year anniversary
in the 2016 season. The club was first established
following a chance meeting between retired youth
team coach Jeffrey Chandler and three of his old
players in 2005 and the talk of returning to rugby
through a local club in Newport or setting up their
own club was banded about and when the 2006
season came around a new team was added to the
Newport & District league.
In their 2015/16 campaign they put together a season to
remember as they triumphed in the Newport and District plate
competition, defeating St Julian’s 22-20 in the final. Secretary
Marc Cox recently took the time to tell us more about the club.
He told us, “The mood at the club is very good at the moment,
obviously with promotion the main aim and achieved the club is
a hive of activity. We also have the end of season reunion and the
annual tour to Benidorm so it’s a good place to be at the moment.
“We have arranged an anniversary/reunion dinner at
Newport Gwent Dragons, Rodney parade, Newport, hosted by
Phil Steele and we are also arranging a game of the original side
against the current side which will incorporate a family day,
bouncy castles etc.
“The season has gone as planned, with players returning
and the new structure of the WRU leagues we set out to gain
promotion at the end of the season and currently we are 2nd in
the league with another two wins guaranteeing promotion.
“We are most definitely a community club; we use the local
club as our club house and with away trips we encourage the
children and families to come along, we are looking in arranging
a WRU NatWest Rugbyforce day which focuses on recruitment
and rewarding volunteers as well as welcoming the community
to the club.
“The biggest challenge for us moving forward will be holding
onto players as successful sides attract the attention of the bigger
clubs in the area. We went through a similar problem a few years
ago when we won the local league a few times and players left
to play a higher level of rugby. Our club’s ambitions are to run
two sides within the next couple of years and progress through
the leagues.”
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