PLAYER PROFILE

UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT: TOM FAWSSETT

Big Tom Fawssett always a man tough to Tuesday night training.

Tom has enjoyed an outstanding season to date. He has kicked beautifully whilst lifting his huge legs with an athletic prowess defying his size.

Known as ‘Fairy Feet’ to his mates and ‘Tommy Kitten’ as a family pet name he is renowned for his thundering runs and high-pitched squeals in the tackle. An honour indeed to be under our spotlight.

Whilst drifting off to sleep

Tom acknowledges that he is still of the belief he grows during the night. He thinks of his early morning gym session (at 5.30am) when awake, and before sleep has already decided what colour scheme and clothes he will wear the following day. Oh what style!

FULL BACK AND WINGER,

Industry and prides himself on big hankies, striped shirts and red jeans as he competes relaxing in his big bath, switching on the bubbles and sipping double rum and coke. His wonderful girlfriend Hadleigh introduced him to it as this is the nectar of St Kitts.

A lover of steak and chips every Friday. This is borne from his time at College when 2 steaks for breakfast was his staple diet. He really is that big!

Well known on the flashing dance floors of Watford, he is a regular white suited, open shirt, hip swinger at Pryzm Nightclub.

In 10 years’ time he hopes to be coaching locally.

He still loves the colour pink and gold and has just saved up enough money to coat his car alloys accordingly. ‘It reminds me of my time at Chess Valley Andy’.

Following in his Dad’s footsteps he adores Liverpool FC. He is also a lover of Gloucester RFC and recalls his banter towards Saracens fans as Gloucester cruised to victory whilst standing in the Shed.

Tom enjoys quality time with his mates and swears by the following chat up lines ‘are you from Tennessee cause you’re the only 10 I see’ and ‘are you from Jamaica because you are Jamaican me crazy.’ My goodness me!

At the gym he displays pictures of All Black Sonny Bill Williams and looks forward to the day he is rich enough that he doesn’t have to work.

Chiltern are dynamite and wants to be part of our eventual promotion to Nat 2.

Tom thank you for being you. We salute you!

BY ANDY GRANT

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Sponsors And Advertisers Why We Need You

The A&C Rugby Club is run as a charity and in a good year the income from subs and the clubhouse and sponsors means we just about break even. We have been active in the local community for close to 100 years. Our loyal members are very supportive and over the years we have done various fundraising schemes to improve every aspect of the club. The clubhouse itself was the biggest and others have followed such as solar panels, the new car park and of course the borehole, without which we would not have been able to start the season on Saturday 3rd September 2022. Incidentally our energy costs are set to increase dramatically so we need to focus on ways to become more energy efficient. Pitch maintenance is another big expense, with an extra £25,000 spent this summer on much needed grading work. We have also upgraded our floodlights at an additional cost of £45,000.

We now estimate that we need to spend some £80,000 on club house refurbishments. One reason for doing this is to make the club house the kind of place people will want to use for events, from private parties to corporate away days. And, of course, our sponsors and advertisers, as well as our members, are always welcome at the club for lunch on home match days.

So, without the support of our sponsors and advertisers it would just not be possible to contemplate the level of capital expenses we face every year. We have a huge responsibility to our members and to the wider community, we get no external support even though we are one of the biggest sports clubs in the area and provide outstanding pastoral care and specialist coaching to players of all ages. We recognise that in return for the fantastic support we get we need to work with our sponsors and advertisers to see how we can help them.

Jennie Cahill will be delighted to hear from you with ideas and suggestions. Please contact her on 07894 293905 or jennie.cahill@icloud.com. Most importantly we want our members to use the products and services in this programme.

Thank you for all your support.

Peter Osborne Director

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