Weymouth
and Portland
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Weymouth
and Portland
RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB
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eymouth and Portland RFC is based at the end of Monmouth Avenue in
Dorset and their first team will compete in the Dorset and Wilts 1 South
League in the 2016/17 campaign. They enjoyed a season to remember this time around
with their first team clinching promotion after finishing in 2nd place in the league.
They finished with an impressive
record of nineteen wins and just three
defeats from their twenty two matches.
This saw them finish with 94 points on
the board.
They will now have turned their
attentions to preparing for the new
campaign and as long as they are able to
retain their current group of players they
should not have anything to fear in their
new surroundings. It will certainly be
exciting to see how they get on.
This is not a club to focus solely upon
their senior section however and this is
reflected by the fact that they also have
a number of youth sides in place. These
teams look to provide young players
from the local area with an opportunity
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to play the game in a safe and enjoyable
environment whilst helping them to reach
their full potential.
It is important for any club to be able
to produce their own talent, particularly
in the current financial climate and this is
an area that they appear to have covered.
Coaching staff involved with their youth
set up are confident that they’ve a number