Skirlaugh
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only our spectators can see the stars
of the future but it also gives these
youngsters a feeling of identity.”
Challenges
“Obviously, our biggest challenges
are sponsorship and fund raising and
making the club stable with a solid
playing base. Worries are the Rugby
Football League whom seem to be
cutting the grass roots game back
through funding and other aspects.
With the professional bodies running
reserve sides from next season it could
well have a detrimental effect on our
playing resources, as at present they
can take players on license (was Dual
Registration) and play them or return
them to their amateur club at will. That
at present only applies to the Hull and
Wakefield sides, but next season they
all will have reserve grades and they
will be cherry picking the NCL and I
feel this may somewhat devalue the
competition.”
Ambitions
“There is a present plan to develop
our facilities into an industrial site and
with it that would provide us with
brand new facilities, which is equally an
exciting prospect and one full of eager
anticipation which we hope will certainly
happen in the next five years. This
“I first got connected to the club through a very
good friend of mine who used to play there who
unfortunately passed away. For the past four
years my boy has been playing in the youth set
up at Skirlaugh Rugby Club. I think it’s a fantastic
family friendly local club and as we are a local
business, we love to help support such a great
club.
would give us far more opportunities to
develop the club such as adding a ladies
teams as we have no pitches or changing
rooms at present for that concept.
Playing wise our aims are to win
promotion to the National Conference
Premier Division and stay there, and
achieve one thing missing from our
rich and glorious history by beating a
professional side in the Challenge Cup.
We need to have a strong and vibrant
reserve team (The Skirlaugh Bulls)
which will make the club far stronger in
playing terms, and finally it is important
to keep the Youth Section running as it
is, because that is the future of our club.”
Concept Sliding Solutions and Revamp Kitchen
and Bedroom Solutions have been sponsoring
the club for the past three/four years now; we
originally sponsored the 200 club then followed
that up by sponsoring the under 8’s shirts,
a couple of senior players, and we have an
advertising board at the main site.
From everyone here at Concept Sliding Solutions
and Revamp Kitchen & Bedrooms Solutions we
would like to wish the club all the best for the
future and hope they keep up all the hard work
being put in, it’s a fantastic family club and a
happy environment to be around.”
The youth section is thriving at the club; we
recently went to Butlins to play in a Rhinos
challenge and Skirlaugh had the largest
representation for junior players out of all the
clubs taking part, and that is definitely something
that we are proud to be associated with. The
developments in the club to gain new facilities Dave Giblin – Concept Sliding Solutions ltd
are much needed, it would really benefit the club
and can provide an opportunity for Skirlaugh to
progress further.
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