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Blimey you weren't kidding, that is huge !!
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Blimey you weren't kidding, that is huge !!
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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
I always preferred Willie Carson, anyway.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
Not much chance of a fire that big on the marshes.Numbers 26:10
If there was, you wouldn't be able to see it, as the light will not propagate beyond the borders of the site.Not much chance of a fire that big on the marshes.
The local wildlife won't even know it's there.If there was, you wouldn't be able to see it, as the light will not propagate beyond the borders of the site.
I was going to attend, having somehow been invited but decided to go for a shit instead.
Bastards, the lot of them.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!