Pen-Y-Bont Crusader

Development, development, development…..

I presume Eddie meant two words...Den Perry. Dean Buchan the infamous character behind Euro XIII/Castleford pre season games.....

Now playing out of Norris Green. The ‘original’ Liverpool Lions still existing at Liverpool Hope Uni and Liverpool Uni have their team as well.

It’s about additional Rugby on the day …ladies game maybe ?

It’s an old story.

New partnership supporting junior pathways. https://www.londonbroncosrl.com/london-broncos-announce-smartway-pharmaceuticals-as-offical-healthcare-partner-in-major-three-year-partnership Smartway cleared £13 million in profit after tax last year......this looks better and better as they are serious players.

Hope they get through this and keep going.

Anyone else have issues with this as its permanently ###### at allowing registrations of players? Any tips ?

Admin and training. Also the reserves and women’s side play there.

The club moved its base from Rosslyn Park to the ex base of the pro London Irish and still amateur LONDON Irish at Hazelwood https://www.hazelwood-centre.co.uk which is in Sunbury.

Community coaches meeting with Mike Eccles on 20th April at Hazelwood to discuss coaching ‘the Broncos way’. Yes its been limited so far but I expect that appointment of a Community Manager to change this substantially.

The clubhouse seemed to be in use - although it wasn’t open for us to use before or after the game. There was a small group of very young kids doing some sort of football camp and there are pitches marked for mini football around the rugby pitch.

No idea.

No rob is head coach at Richmond RFC and doing a great job there. Illiess macani plays for them too.

It will continue but I won’t deny that it’s hard because we are competing ina lot of cases against lads involved with Quins and Sarries academies and because right now they have a full pathway there they choose them over Broncos every time. There’s about 270 kids in the Quins pathway and only 20/30 will get to the end via various cuts in squads. At the moment we try and get some of those 240 who get cut. And it’s hard, really hard to staff this with volunteers. The demands on time when everyone is involved in community clubs too are serious. For example, only because my boss is massively supportive of the work we are doing did I get a paid day off work to be one of the assistants at Wakefield this week AND another to coach at the Development day 24 hours later. Broncos have apparently now appointed a Community Development Manager who will start work next month I am led to believe. They then need a Head of Youth to coordinate and align the elite pathways with them. And cheekily I’ll ask again if anyone would like and can contribute anything at all to the work we are doing at South Bank please drop me a pm and I’ll give you the details. Now we have both girls and boys and more joining every week training resources are being stretched further and further. Thanks for all your support.