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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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