Marlborough
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Marlborough
RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB
Marlborough RFC is a fine example of a club playing an important role
in their local community and is working hard to continue to progress
ahead of the 2019/20 season. Rugby Club Magazine recently caught up
with Club Representative Leila Nairne to find out more about the good
work they’ve been doing lately.
Atmosphere Success
Leila told us, “The Club has a great feeling at the moment,
it is very positive and yes, we’re all a little tired, but we can’t
wait for the 2019/2020 season to start. We are already working
towards getting everything ready for the start of the season.
During the summer the coaches will be updating their training,
organising kit, attracting Sponsorship both new and old and
putting the wheels in motion for tours and so forth. The bar
area will be having a revamp which Ramsbury Brewery is
doing for us (one of our Sponsors), so hopefully a more pleasant
environment will be achieved and will hopefully attract more
hires for the Club.” “Every age group has lots to celebrate, we have had players
playing in Dorset & Wilts County matches within the various
age groups and we still have a player in Bath’s Academy
Development programme. Mini/Juniors have had successful
Festivals and Tournaments. A few more of the age groups have
been away on Tour where they have had a great time.
The Colts have been a true success this year, when many
Clubs have folded with this age group because they can’t
attract the numbers. We have benefited from this to a degree as
we have attracted new players. The lads won the D & W Colts
Plate; we have never won any silverware with this age group
and so it was wonderful to see. Hopefully some of those who
are not off to University will be moving up to the seconds and
maybe even the firsts? We do lose a lot of the Colts as they tend
to go off to University, often a good distance away.
The Senior sides are just going from strength to strength
and we are attracting new players. The seconds won promotion
to D & W N1, again this is the first time in our history that we
have had a second team two leagues below the first team. The
firsts finished in fourth position, which was a fantastic result
as this was the first season that we had played in Southwest 1
East, at one point it looked that we may have been in the play-
offs, but the one thing we can take away is that we were the
only side in the league to beat Newbury Blues (who have been
promoted).”
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