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Clubland – “If anything is sure, its change.”
I landed in Clubland at an unprecedented time of change. The game had gone from amateur (shamateur) to professional and no one knew what the future held. The change was managed very differently from nation to nation, in fact some tried to ignore it for as long as...
Grassroots Stories – Support to Survive
The rugby club, in my opinion the best place on earth, however these are under threat from budget cuts from the RFU. Grassroots rugby has been such an important part of my life since a very early age. The first piece of live sport I encountered was a rugby game my Dad...
Diary of a One-Team Club – Saturday Morning Matters
Racal Decca RFC are now 2 weeks away from the season starting and the club has had its first training session on a Saturday lunchtime. However, in the run up to this Saturday session we hit a few brick walls, we tried to change training days to accommodate a larger...
The FYB Interview – Pat Lam
At the Gallagher Premiership Launch, we were lucky enough to have a chat with Bristol Bears Head Coach, Pat Lam about the upcoming season and the plans that the Bears have… Fill Your Boots – You were a player and now your the coach of the Bristol Bears, do...
Diary of a One-Team Club – Training?? What’s Training??
Most of us now are beginning to start our clubs preseason preparations, but how does that work when you are at a club with no club house, no real coaching resources other than the internet and lacking in valuable training equipment. This is Racal Decca RFC’s...
Grassroots Stories – “You Know How Many Boys?!”
The funniest and best introduction to this blog is a conversation I had with a 6 year old girl one grassroots rugby match day. I was explaining to her brother (who was team mascot), and her parents how many senior players are on our books as they had asked…84 I...
Grassroots Stories – A (match) day in the life of a South London amateur rugby captain
Since women came to rugby slightly later than men, we suffer the consequence in a few ways. The biggest and most frustrating of these is the Sunday fixture. Waking up on game day can sometimes therefore mean getting a few pints of water down you first thing. More...
Grassroots Stories – The Collective Action Problem of Amateur Team Sports…
People join rugby teams for a multitude of reasons: to get fit, to have fun, to play a sport they love, to try something new, to make new friends… the list is endless. As a general rule they don’t join a rugby team to increase their number of admin tasks, hours spent...
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