Mill Hill
The club aims to provide as much amateur rugby experience
to as many as it can. Situated at the entrance to Allianz Park –
Saracens Professionals new home ground, we are the traditional
grass roots counterpoint to the professional game. Our players,
social members and match day visitors love the place, especially
the log fire, the food, real ale and the lively, souvenir laden bar.
However, we are in no doubt that
we can’t rest on our excellent social
reputation. We aspire to higher leagues,
more players, different sorts of rugby.
The next key move will be to re-establish
women’s and youth rugby, but perhaps
more importantly, solve the conundrum
of how to convert capable youngsters
into long term club players. We are
experiencing an upsurge in new players,
young and not so young. After several
years of watching many other clubs fold
for want of players, and facing our own
reduction in numbers, we are now on
the up and facing down the challenge of
keeping people in the grass roots game,
promoting it as competitive, accessible
and fun.
We believe that there is still a place for
the very competitive and skilled amateur,
the very social player, the little guy and
the ‘slightly’ unfit one who can’t always
make training because of their job. Some
of the older club members, including
some of the he oldest front rows in the
world, are just waiting to settle back into
a Vets team, allowing the young ones to
thrive. We host an established over 50s
touch team, mixed tag tournaments and
Saracens junior rugby events.
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