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Peebles
RUGBY CLUB
Peebles Rugby Club has reorganised off the field in order
to prove themselves with a solid financial base for the
future. Their Chairman, Graham Bell recently took the time
to tell us more.
Involvement
“I, like most of the players and
committee guys at Peebles, first came
into contact with the club through rugby
at school, in my case that’s about forty
years ago. My active involvement with
the club however did not start until
around twenty years ago; I had moved
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away from the area with work and had
played at several clubs further north
before taking up refereeing when my
body started to let me down a bit.
I moved back to Peebles in 2000
and continued to referee for several
years before becoming more involved
in the club. Once again, this was via the
school where I was refereeing games on
Saturday mornings, the clubs Director of
Rugby at the time asked me if I would
be interested in helping at the club and
I became the first team manager for
several season before being drawn into
the executive committee and eventually
to my current post as Chairman.
For me, rugby has almost always
formed the centre of my social life and