Straight back to the National Leagues in 2008!

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.

Last season our 1st team played in National League 3 and found that the playing standard at that level was very high. Unfortunately, we could sustain the level needed and were relegated back to SW Division One.

Our taste of life at National 3 convinced us that we should always 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.

We base our 1^st team squad as much as possible on locally produced talent. 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.

Where the first team squad are deficient in a particular position, we may need to consider foreign players. However, this time around we did not trust to well written CVs that promise perhaps more than is possible. We used trusted former player's knowledge to guide us. We also set up a player exchange scheme so that some of our promising players enjoyed the experience of playing abroad in return for players useful to us.

These initiatives have obviously been successful and now we look forward to returning to the National leagues stronger and wiser.

And we should never forget that even Homer Simpson agrees that Chinnor RFC will continue to be a force to reckoned with.

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