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Coming to the end of the season....... Senior playing plans for next season
Chinnor Rugby Club remains a strong and well respected club with great success at Mini and Junior level and good quality rugby played at every senior level. Our Academy, from a scratch start, is well respected and well run. As you will know, the 1st team have struggled in National League 3 this season with relegation to South West 1 now a certainty. It's a particular shame as the team have started to compete well in the latter part of the season. We were told by clubs previously promoted that the step up in playing standards to National 3 was great. How right they were. We clearly could not replace the quality of players who moved on after our promotion season. We lost 7 very good players from that side. Our taste of life at National 3 has convinced us that we should still aim for the standard of play at that level. We are convinced that, unless we strive to improve, we will start to go backwards. Complacency is the first step towards failure - something that this well supported club will not contemplate. So what lessons have we learnt and what we will do better next year? Perhaps the most important thing is that the support for the club remains strong. Players and coaches remain committed. Our sponsors will stick with us and help us even more. We will still possess and enjoy some of the best facilities in the South. We will base our 1st team squad as much as possible on locally produced talent - and the vibrant emergence of the Academy will do much to further this aim. We will develop a better local scouting scheme so that players at other local clubs are attracted to play at a higher level with us. But we first need to know who they are. Where the first team squad are deficient in a particular position, we may need to consider foreign players. However, this time around we will not trust to well written CVs that promise perhaps more than is possible. We will use trusted former player's knowledge to guide us. We will also set up a player exchange scheme so that some of our promising players enjoy the experience of playing abroad in return for players useful to us. Plans for such a scheme with Namibia are already well advanced and we also have connections with coaches of French National teams which will be similarly explored. We have already started on many of these ideas and have strengthened our Playing Committee with new members chosen for their proven skills and experience. Whilst we cannot guarantee a speedy return to National Rugby, we will strive to get back there - this time better planned and resourced.
Jeff
Deighton
Kenneth Vaughan But don't forget that even Homer Simpson agrees that Chinnor RFC will continue to be a force to reckoned with.
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