Rugby Club progress...

stoofer34

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From the Sentinel
FORMER England and British Lions captain Bill Beaumont CBE, chairman of World Rugby, will today put the first spade in the ground of Stafford Rugby Club’s multi-million pound new sporting facility.

Beaumont will be joined by the club’s patron Lord Stafford and other local dignitaries and club supporters for this long-awaited, historic day for the club at its new home off Blackberry Lane, Doxey.

Chairman Martin Lennon said: “For many years we have talked about the new club facility and its standing within the local community.

“Progress has been long and sometimes difficult, but now for the first time we can say with confidence, that the future is now.”

The sporting facility has a new clubhouse and function rooms, will have four full-size pitches, two being floodlit, one of which will be a state-of-the-art 4G artificial pitch capable of holding representative matches.

It will make Stafford – who currently field four senior teams, plus colts and a thriving junior section with boys and girls aged six-16 years taking part – the centre of amateur rugby not only in Staffordshire, but throughout the Midlands region.

It is also hoped that other local sporting bodies and businesses will use the facilities thereby involving members of the local community.

The ceremony will take place today at 11am at Blackberry Lane.


Beaumont won 34 caps, toured with the British Lions twice and was also the longest-serving captain on the very popular family BBC programme Question of Sport .

Any protestors???

S
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
From the Sentinel
FORMER England and British Lions captain Bill Beaumont CBE, chairman of World Rugby, will today put the first spade in the ground of Stafford Rugby Club’s multi-million pound new sporting facility.

Beaumont will be joined by the club’s patron Lord Stafford and other local dignitaries and club supporters for this long-awaited, historic day for the club at its new home off Blackberry Lane, Doxey.

Chairman Martin Lennon said: “For many years we have talked about the new club facility and its standing within the local community.

“Progress has been long and sometimes difficult, but now for the first time we can say with confidence, that the future is now.”

The sporting facility has a new clubhouse and function rooms, will have four full-size pitches, two being floodlit, one of which will be a state-of-the-art 4G artificial pitch capable of holding representative matches.

It will make Stafford – who currently field four senior teams, plus colts and a thriving junior section with boys and girls aged six-16 years taking part – the centre of amateur rugby not only in Staffordshire, but throughout the Midlands region.

It is also hoped that other local sporting bodies and businesses will use the facilities thereby involving members of the local community.

The ceremony will take place today at 11am at Blackberry Lane.


Beaumont won 34 caps, toured with the British Lions twice and was also the longest-serving captain on the very popular family BBC programme Question of Sport .

Any protestors???

S


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gilbert grape

Well-Known Forumite
I'm still to be convinced by all of the promises that have been made, and only then will we know how true some people are.

This statement -
"It will make Stafford – who currently field four senior teams, plus colts and a thriving junior section with boys and girls aged six-16 years taking part – the centre of amateur rugby not only in Staffordshire, but throughout the Midlands region."
- also shows that the club could well need some expansion in the future, as success breeds success and that brings crowds.
Times change but a successful Stafford team drew a crowd of over 1000 in the 80s.
#justsayin
 

Sir BoD

Well-Known Forumite
From the Sentinel
FORMER England and British Lions captain Bill Beaumont CBE, chairman of World Rugby, will today put the first spade in the ground of Stafford Rugby Club’s multi-million pound new sporting facility.

Beaumont will be joined by the club’s patron Lord Stafford and other local dignitaries and club supporters for this long-awaited, historic day for the club at its new home off Blackberry Lane, Doxey.

Chairman Martin Lennon said: “For many years we have talked about the new club facility and its standing within the local community.

“Progress has been long and sometimes difficult, but now for the first time we can say with confidence, that the future is now.”

The sporting facility has a new clubhouse and function rooms, will have four full-size pitches, two being floodlit, one of which will be a state-of-the-art 4G artificial pitch capable of holding representative matches.

It will make Stafford – who currently field four senior teams, plus colts and a thriving junior section with boys and girls aged six-16 years taking part – the centre of amateur rugby not only in Staffordshire, but throughout the Midlands region.

It is also hoped that other local sporting bodies and businesses will use the facilities thereby involving members of the local community.

The ceremony will take place today at 11am at Blackberry Lane.


Beaumont won 34 caps, toured with the British Lions twice and was also the longest-serving captain on the very popular family BBC programme Question of Sport .

Any protestors???

S
I always preferred Willie Carson, anyway.
 

gon2seed

(and me! - Ed)
Mmmm! After what seems like months since Bill Beaumonts lifting of the first sod! Work is well under way on developing the new pitches and home for SRFC. In the last couple of weeks they have moved on apace. Lots of machinery, trees removed and soil been shifted onto the site opposite The Universal factory behind the new estate on the old Venables, at end of the Isabel Trail near Sainsburies. Would imagine it will eventually be accessed via the Weston bypass when its built; at the moment I imagine its a squeeze down Blackberry Lane. It will certainly need decent access when a few hundred rugger b*ggers are that way at the weekend!
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Mmmm! After what seems like months since Bill Beaumonts lifting of the first sod! Work is well under way on developing the new pitches and home for SRFC. In the last couple of weeks they have moved on apace. Lots of machinery, trees removed and soil been shifted onto the site opposite The Universal factory behind the new estate on the old Venables, at end of the Isabel Trail near Sainsburies. Would imagine it will eventually be accessed via the Weston bypass when its built; at the moment I imagine its a squeeze down Blackberry Lane. It will certainly need decent access when a few hundred rugger b*ggers are that way at the weekend!
Bastards, the lot of them.
 
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