Mill Hill
Malcolm Maycock recently spoke to Rugby Club
Magazine about his long and positive association with
Mill Hill Rugby Club, saying, “I was invited down to the
club by a family friend, David Wildman, in the 1978/79
season. Having never played rugby I enjoyed a steep
learning curve both on and off the pitch. I played for the
club for approximately ten years at 2nd row with occasional
appearances at No8, my playing career finishing due to a
neck injury and subsequent operation.
“The club throughout my playing career ran six sides
and I tried to ensure that each season I played for each
team captain. After my accident I took up coaching and
helped reinstate a Colts side, along with JC, all of us
skilfully managed and manipulated by the infamous Dolly.
Those Colts are now in their 40’s, to watch them grow and
develop mainly from non-players has been a real pleasure.
They still reminisce about their exploits, horrendous defeats,
a few victories and their 1st international tour to Venice,
thankfully social media was yet to be invented.
Tours have provided many of my standout moments in
the club and taken me across Europe to Germany, Holland,
Sweden, Czech Republic, Malta, Portugal and many trips to
France and UK destinations. My journey over the seasons
with the club has taken me from playing to coaching, to
refereeing, the journey never seems to end as the excellent
social side continues with lifelong friends who I meet
regularly for Golf. The club allows us to run a golf society
and the annual Cyder Cup, Mill Hill RFC v Mill Hill Village
(footballers and cricketers) is still a social magnet.
I can honestly say that I can’t thank the club and its
members enough for the positive influence they have had
on my life - teaching me many valuable lessons and skills
and although I don’t get down there as often as I would like
I always commit to the VP days as the club honoured me
by making me one and its always important for to me to see
my friends regularly.
Mill Hill is a fantastic family club with a great ethos and
as a business we have sponsored them for over fifteen
years now. We are always keen to support the club in any
way we can, my business partner Mark, an ex player and
Good Luck Mill Hill RFC
Marketing Manager Mike Reed, ex player and club captain
so Mill Hill is never far away from our thoughts.
Rugby is very much about participation, inclusion and
camaraderie allowing everyone to have the best possible
experience within an atmosphere of mutual respect. Mill
Hill Rugby Club do all of this very well and provide a great
service to our local community, for which we are both
humbled and extremely proud to be associated. We all wish
them the very best of continued success for many more
seasons to come!”
“This is my fourth season as club captain at Mill
Hill RFC; I play as an openside flanker and have
been with the club for ten years now and have
sponsored them for the last three. The success
at the club has been brought on by the coaching
staff stepping it up and focusing on promotion
and pushing the playing side of the club forward.
The club has always been known for having a
big pack but has really improved the basic fitness
levels of the players and as long as we stick
together we can meet the challenges ahead of
us. Everywhere you go in the world to play rugby
as soon as you step onto that field you instantly
make fourteen friends who always have your back
and I would say once you join Mill Hill you are very
unlikely to want to leave!”
Jack Bryne
www.rugbyclubmag.com
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