Winscombe
Club as a whole with all age groups
teams and sections working together.
And concentrating on open and honest
communications at all levels, and with all
levels to get and keep everyone engaged
and pulling in the same direction.”
Youth
“Our M&Js are thriving. We have
fantastic representation in age groups
at county, area and some international
success but this, along with the current
inclement weather has caused us
problems with fulfilling fixtures.
One of their main successes has been
the integration of the youth and colts
players into the senior teams. In the
past we have had immensely successful
mini and junior sections, but as players
have approached senior level they have
tended to drift off to other clubs such
as Weston, Hornets and Bridgewater to
fulfil their ambitions.
Now we love it if any of our alumni
go on to greater success and would
encourage them to do so, but it tended
to be a large tranche of players would
move together, few of them find success,
and then some or most would be lost to
rugby completely.” rugby, the U16 /17 and colts train jointly
with the seniors on the same evenings
and even for the minis we have Club
Days where the Minis play games or
give demonstrations before 1st team
fixtures. We get the parents and Vice-
presidents and sponsors involved, have
a meal beforehand and make it a great
day out.”
Integration “Winscombe was recently voted the
second best place in Britain in which to
live and we are part of that community
and proud to be so. We need to play our
part in and work with the village and
community to maybe get it to number
one.”
“We now have an active programme
of integration with the juniors and are
trying to let them know that they can be
successful without moving elsewhere.
We have senior players and coaches
helping in the latter stages of Junior
Ambitions
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