This year sees Mosborough RUFC celebrate 25 years of competing in senior men’s rugby. To mark this event a very special rugby match has been organized. The final bank holiday in May will see the current team taking on the original XV who founded the team.
Alan Treloar the senior coach at Mosborough thought up the idea after talking to one of the original XV:
“We thought it would be a nice way to celebrate 25 years of playing at a competitive level. With a lot of the old boys still knocking around and able to play it should be a fun match.”
The match is a finale to a weekend of events, which will see the club rising money to continue the development of its junior teams and club grounds.
Heidi Newman is the clubs volunteer coordinator who has had a big part in organising the weekend’s activities:
“When Alan approached me with the idea of the game I thought it would be an excellent way to get the whole club involved in the weekend as well as a lot of the local people around the town.”
The weekend will see all players taking place in a mixed tournament of tag rugby as well as several stalls set up by local traders and the rugby club itself. The seniors vs old XV will be the finale on the Sunday.
The club was founded in 1984 when a group of ex. Westfield School pupils decided they needed an excuse to go to the pub at weekends.
Its first competitive season was the 1985/86 season where the club lost all its games.
Since then the club has gone from strength to strength competing on all levels.
By Jonathan Bayliss
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