Pulling up roots
Captain Caleb Tapscott-Yates came up with the idea after the previous session and his mum, Hannah Yates, captured this atmospheric image (above) as the boys gathered in the early-morning mist. In his piece advocating a reduction in the amount of Test rugby played (Jan2019 issue), Stephen Jones dismisses the importance of funding for community clubs on the basis that “the grass roots are struggling and it is ridiculous to pretend that central funding has any monumental effect”.
As a trustee of such a club that desperately needs to spend several hundred thousand pounds on replacing 30-year-old infrastructure to support