Stocksbridge RUFC

Globe Holidays sponsored Stocksbridge Rugby start their season this weekend with a tricky trip to West Yorkshire to face Knottingley RUFC in the 1^st round of the Yorkshire Vase Trophy. The squad have been training well, & in good numbers as they prepare for the new campaign under rookie Coach Aaron Kaye. Club Skipper, ‘Clock Tower’ Andy Beal is in positive mood for the coming season as he explained, ‘the boys are buying in to the shapes & structures of the new Coaching team, & we are looking forward to putting them into action’, before adding, ‘the whole squad are chomping at the bit to get going & there is a good, positive vibe about the place’. In a strange twist of fate, Stocksbridge will also visit Knottingley the following week aswell in the 1^st round of the league fixtures, with all September’s fixtures now being played away from the Coal Pit Lane Arena as the work on the new drainage facilities is completed. There is an exciting mixture of experience in the shape of Ricky James, Sam Whitaker, Reece ‘diesel’ Aspin plus Beal himself, along with some youthful exuberance in the shape of Logan ‘whiskers’ Hannah, Harrison ‘the storm’ Norman, the Kerr boys & the Martin brothers, the ambitious club could well be in for a much-improved season, if the standards shown so far in training are maintained.

Written by Andrew Tyers