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Junior Rugby Section Review 2002 -2003

Another good and interesting year for the Junior Rugby Section.

Entertaining Points – Primary age group bus trips to Haddington & Dunbar.  The improvised lyrics educating us on what Yogi & Cindy bear have been up to echoing from the rear of the bus.

High Points– exemplary behaviour and high standard of rugby produced by all the Junior Section. The expansion of our coaching helper parents.

Age Groups :-

Under 16 - A lot of effort put in by Martin Scott and Rab Wood. Unfortunately we did not have enough players within the strict age criteria and we did not play in the leagues.

However a lot of these players actually played in the firsts and seconds this year and trained with the senior club during the week.

Mini - We have over 30 players on our books.

P7/S1 - Tight on numbers and we were helped on occasions by our good friends Dalkeith and Ross High to fulfil fixtures.

We had our first International performers this year with Tom Mulligan, Iain Stewart, Kevin Richardson & Rory Kirkwood representing Broughton in the half-time relay at Murrayfield during the Scotland Italy Match

Tom Mulligan also acted as a mascot at an Edinburgh match.

P5/4 - Another outstanding season. Unlucky to be narrowly beaten by Boroughmuir. The highlight has to be their performance at the Dunbar Tournament where they were one try away from winning the Tournament. They did Broughton proud that day.

P5/4 - We have a growing number below P5/4 – some have played in a combined team with Lasswade in tag rugby.

Where are we going from here?

There a number of issues waiting for information from SRU :–

Coaching licence renewal

Disclosure Scotland – Grant Hutchison has now registered for a course at Murrayfield in September.

Player registration – web site was not working last season

Mini

From the P6 festival – I now have 20 children who have given me their names for next season including 12 girls.

I hope to run 2-3 teams and keep this year’s P7 & S1s

Under 15s  - very important for our future

Martin & Rab have bridged good links at Broughton school – providing referee cover.  They are working towards running an under 15’s side.  We also have a lead to Craigroysten to follow up.

I also plan to get more coaches through Level 1 and foundation refereeing courses.

The future success is however dependant on the help we can get from the existing coaches, parents and YOU – I need you to help – even if its not all the time – we need help to make this a success

Thanks -

To those who have supported the coaching or our trip to Murrayfield :-

Calum Muir, Colin Devine, Philip Dawson, Paul Skehil, Alastair Miller, Alistair Strong, Grant Hutchison, Kirsten Thomson, Colin Weir, Dave Ferguson, Bob Russell, Gerry Love, Martin Scott, Rab Wood, The Ladies helping with the teas, Mark with his Web site, Sandy with his fully stocked bar, and lastly the committee who have provided full financial support

Richard Chalmers, Junior Section Leader (June 2003)