Ruthin Town
In the last few years we have also
deployed a process whereby the current
under 16 Manager is asked to move to the
Development Squad manager’s role to
ensure the players have a known structure
to work under.
We are one of the few clubs in North
Wales who run three senior teams. One
of the reasons we do so is to help the
transition from youth to senior football.
Our development squad is very important
in this respect and we utilise some of
our experienced players to help in this
transition. Some players are ready to go
straight into the reserves and even the
first team in one or two cases, most take a
little longer to develop.
FF: Would you consider yours to be a
community club?
PC: Very much so. The Town is a huge
part of this club. Every first team player is
a local player and all either live in Ruthin,
its surrounding villages or in the Vale of
Clwyd. Over 90% of them actually played
youth football for Ruthin, including the
entire first team management team.
We rely heavily on our local sponsors
without whom we would not be
able to support the three senior
teams and the infrastructure we
maintain in the form of the
club house and three pitches.
Even with a promotion to
the Cymru Alliance last
season we have not seen a
huge rise in revenue into
the club compared with
the increase in running
costs for officials, match
day staff etc.
We also have a massive
task in completing a new 250
seater stand and additional
FAW Tier Two requirements
to the ground and clubhouse
facilities to ensure we remain
compliant for the 2017/18 season.
We have set up a crowd funding
account to help build funds for these. We
also relied purely on material donations
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