Cardiff Saracens
We welcome new players of all
abilities and support local charities
with a few fundraising events.
One of the players has even
started working on his own
community radio production called
‘Joey Talk Talk’, which we expect to
be lined up by producers in the near
future!
RC: What do you believe could be
some of the biggest challenges the
club may face in the coming years?
RJ: Getting Sid to understand
how to use the team app is an
accomplishment that I feel will take
many years!
Grass roots rugby can be fragile,
and we’re by no means immune. If
a couple of props decide to retire,
suddenly we can’t field a team, so
we need to keep recruiting new
players. It’s getting harder and
harder to keep people motivated to
lace up their boots on a Saturday,
but we’re lucky that we’re a growing
club and have a great appetite from
the players.
It’s even more challenging off the
field, the club is so reliant on a small
number of individuals who put in
the hours to keep the club going,
particularly between the committee
and the coaches. Without them, I
don’t quite know how we’d survive!
RC: What are the club’s ambitions
for the next five years?
RJ: Well actually, we very much
deal in rolling three year plans at the
Sarries. Probably get promoted, then
relegated, then promoted again or
something! Also, it’s a firm ambition
of the club to get Bryn and Will on
tour, but perhaps that’s unrealistic!
I’m not sure we have the
infrastructure to get too ambitious
and fly through the leagues. We
don’t have our own pitch or our own
clubhouse (though the Crofts do a
great job in hosting us after games),
we don’t have a youth setup and we
have no intention of paying players.
So given the lack of resources,
I think our ambitions have to be to
get a strong player base who enjoy
being competitive on the pitch and
like a good craic off it, as well as
continuing to provide stability in the
way the club is run.
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