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would have believed a few years back that Caldy would go on to achieve successive promotions from National 2 North to the Championship, having lost only 3 games in doing so, and in the event becoming one of the top 24 sides in the country in terms of first team league status. Not many of us who were there will ever forget the incredible scenes following our title winning game against Sale F.C. at the end of last season in front of what can only be described as an amazing record crowd. To a large extent the credit must go to our Director of Rugby and Head Coach and their coaching teams and of course the playing squad and senior players ably led by our talismanic skipper JJ. Let’s not forget however the contribution from our incredibly successful second team, unbeaten for more than 2 seasons, and our Community Section in particular from whose minis and
A very warm welcome to the new rugby season to all of our members, supporters, and guests today and to our visitors from Hartpury University R.F.C. in this our inaugural match at Championship Wholevel.
pitch Caldy has continued to upgrade its facilities with further improvements underway to the bank and floodlighting which will hopefully be completed this month. Other
as previously mentioned we welcome Hartpury University and their committee to Paton Field for the first time in what will be a challenging season ahead. Hartpury rugby basically started at the beginning of this millennium and since then the club has made great strides forward, gaining promotions through the league rugby system and more recently dominating university rugby nationally. The Club gained promotion to the Championship in 2017 and have been ever present since. The club has close ties with Gloucester Rugby and consists of largely current or former students together with some dual registered players who will no doubt be formidable opponents for the game ahead. Our pre season warm up schedule will hopefully have given us an insight as to what to expect later
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Player Charlie Hodgson. Members will have access to a programme of quarterly breakfast events, with speakers from a wide range of commercial, business and sporting backgrounds. Access to a range of partners, to whom Business Club members will have exclusive access to help develop their own business interests. Annual membership fee of £500 +VAT plus £250 joining fee. Benefits: n Pitchside advertising board at Caldy RFC for your business n Two Caldy RFC season tickets –enabling you and a guest to attend Caldy RFC home games at Paton Field n Two breakfast invites for the guest speaker events per quarter n Company logo in the Caldy RFC matchday programme – 15 per season n Entry into the International ticket ballot n Logo and write up on the Caldy RFC website n Priority booking for the hire of the Club house for events, parties, meetings n Free entry to Caldy 7’s If you are interested in joining Caldy Rugby Business Club, please contact Jonathan Kemp at www.caldyrugbyclub.com/business-clubJonathan@aev.co.uk 4 www.caldyrugbyclub.com
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To you, the Caldy members, supporters and spectators, thank you also for your incredible support particularly towards the culmination of last season and hopefully going forward as we face this massive new challenge ahead. Your contribution cannot be underestimated as I’m sure the players would confirm and is an essential part of our effort to maintain our status with our centenary season just around the corner. Let’s all get fully behind our teams in the weeks and months ahead come wind, rain or shine and give them the positive support and encouragement they deserve. To enhance each occasion we have increased the capacity for our pre-match lunches which are becoming increasingly popular and are available to book on line. If you wish to do this or become a member/ purchase a season ticket or help us in any way please refer to our website for further details.
improvements have been carried out to satisfy Championship requirements both on and off the field within the clubhouse areas. Our thanks go to all those responsible including our chairman and committee for putting in so much effort in such a limited timescale to ensure that we can all enjoy the level of rugby that is now on offer, and to our sponsors who have made this leap in status financially possible. Our targets going forward are to not only maintain the standard of rugby on offer but also to make further progress with our new clubhouse proposals; this remains in the hands of the local authority planning department, with some further hurdles to negotiate no doubt before we can report further.
Our thanks must also go to our team of ground staff, the Last of the Summer Wine (LOSW for short), who freely give enormous amounts of their time to produce and maintain the standard of pitches that we all possibly take a little too much for granted. You only had to be here for the pre -season game against Sale Sharks to appreciate the wonderful aspect and playing facilities that the club now has to offer. I also need to mention the contribution of all of those involved in the day to day operation and management of the club including our bar, catering and other members of staff without whom the club could not effectively function.
Finally, I sincerely hope that you enjoy your visit to Caldy today, particularly the rugby on offer and that come win lose or draw, we will all celebrate our match day experience together in the traditional way after the game.
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President’s Welcome Continued-
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time now and we are all ready to get started. We know we are in for a huge challenge this year and it’s going to be extremely difficult, but its something we are looking forward to both as players and coaches and hopefully we can adapt quickly, learn quickly and keep improving each game. It’s a tough start against an established Champ team in Hartpury, they play an exciting brand of rugby coupled with a very strong set of forwards. We want to give a good account of ourselves and are excited to see how we can perform at this level. As ever we will need all of our support!
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t’s great to be back at Caldy for the start of our season in the Championship. It still feels a bit surreal that we are in the Championship and I think it has taken time for what the team achieved last season to sink in. The last game of last year against Sale FC has to be one of the great days in the clubs history and also an unforgettable day for everyone involved from supporters, sponsors, players and Coaches. It definitely is up there as one of my proudest days in Rugby and its certainly going to be difficult to top!
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Most of our lads didn’t have long before they were back into pre season and the prep for this year. It seems we have been training for a long
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the last 10 years for all your hard work. What our current team, including management and coaches, have achieved has been exemplary and the foundations were laid by the hard work of all those who have gone before.
I asked our very own in – house statistician, Roger, who we played 10 years ago on the first day of the season. We played Huddersfield away in North One followed by a home match against Stockport – now it Hartpury followed by Richmond. Thanks to everyone who has played and been involved in any capacity over
Since that momentous win against Sale FC a lot of hard work has gone into preparing for the Championship. It still seems a bit surreal to be saying Caldy are in the English Rugby Championship. I don’t know about anyone else, but I am very excited at the prospect. The fact that the Rugby Paper has predicted that we will be bottom of the Championship will only give a greater incentive to Matt and the management and playing team to prove them wrong!
After the Sale FC game we had a meeting with Gareth, Matt and Rich over dinner at Hillbark. We were not asked for more money but were asked to support them by making sure everything we do is of a professional standard. Standards have been improved across the board and we have tried to give all possible support to our coaches and players, so they are as well prepared and presented as possible
I am sure everyone is interested in who will be playing for us next season (See Next Page). Otherwise, we go into the season with the same players who worked so hard to get us into the Championship. We are fortunate as a club that with such a successful community section that each year we have new young players challenging for first team places and I am sure this season will be no different. As a precaution though we have an arrangement with Sale Sharks, and many thanks to them for being so accommodating, whereby we can call on some of their academy players if we need to – who knows how injuries will go in a new division up against professional players.
What a pre – season! To have Sale Sharks playing at Caldy in front of a crowd of around 3,500 with their superstars wandering around as well. And I felt the game against Sale FC showed how much we have improved on last season with us winning by 47 – 12 – although we all know pre – season games mean very little once the season starts . The players started fitness programmes not long after last season finished to allow them to compete with the full - time professional players, they will be playing against this season and I thought the benefits showed.
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A Word From Our Chairman
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A new physio – Leigh Halfteck supported by Abi Kain and Trudi Mercer
Dan Bibby – Ex England 7’s Will Sanderson – a prop from RGC Matt Woodward – a prop who last year played in the BUCS for Durham University Andy Darlington – a Dutch international prop who had been playing for CS Beaune in TomFranceParry
Outgoings - Incomings - Returning
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Our coaches have remained the same, but we have recruited:
Lucas Titherington – Lucas has joined Coventry and we will see him later in the season Jack Sanders – Jack has moved down the road to play rugby for Anselmians this season
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– a back row who has joined us from Wirral Chris Pilgrim – a scrum half who played for us briefly a couple of seasons ago and has previously played for Newcastle Falcons and Nottingham Josh Walters – a centre who played for Leeds Rhinos in a Rugby League Final and is converting to rugby union Louis Beer – Louis is a back 3 player who played for Cambridge and more recently in AlexAustraliaGaughan - Alex is a scrum half who has joined us from Ormskirk Rob Cooke – a utility back who has joined us from Collegiate Jaco Oosthuyzen – a prop who played for a couple of years ago and has returned to Caldy Iwan Phillips – a winger/full back who has previously played in Hong Kong
Outgoings
Lewis Barker – will hopefully playing again in early October after missing all last season
A new ramp has been put in for trolleys. We will have 2 doctors and an ambulance at every match as well as our physios. The lower terrace has been extended and new steps put in and a fence has been put in on the far side of the pitch. We are replacing the floodlights with LED lights – which will give us lights that meet RFU playing standards and will also have temporary lighting on the 3rd team pitch for the community section players. A new electronic scoreboard is being fitted.
A lead doctor – Jim Kerss supported by a panel of doctors
– after returning after a shoulder injury Ted broke his thumb pre - season and will be out for another 6 weeks Rhys Hayes – returned after a season out injured Tom Fletcher – a centre who has returned to Caldy from University Robin Lowndes – Robin is a back row who played in our minis and junior sides and has returned to the area from University
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A new S&C coach – Joel Kearney
There are a lot of criteria that must be met to be in the Championship. We have swapped the referees room and the physio room - so the new physio room is more accessible for stretchers.
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It is great that we have now have sponsors based in Australia and Florida – so don’t let distance put you off. We have also started a Business Club, and at the time of writing have 56 members. We are still looking to grow the Club so if you would like to join or know anyone else who might please let us know. We have also had a lot of support with player sponsorship and match sponsorship. We do have games available for sponsorship and as we will be able to seat 120 in the small marquee, we will have up for the season, please do sponsor a game and bring guests along. To ensure that all our sponsors get an excellent service we have appointed Leonie Wright as our
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A tremendous amount of work has been put in a special thank you to the person who heads up all the Operations at Caldy, Bob Cooke, who has voluntarily put in a staggering number of hours this summer to make sure things have happened. Also, a special mention to Mark Loughran who has been up at the club nearly every day since he retired, including weekends, labouring as a volunteer and has certainly been left staggering on occasions after all the hard work. Thanks to everyone who has helped move us forward as a club!
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This season if you are a member when you show your membership card you will get a discount at the bar. Season tickets are currently being issued and this season we will have stewards on the gate supporting Tim and his team. It is essential that everyone shows their season tickets and that they are scanned, so we have accurate numbers for people attending. If you forget your season ticket, you will be asked to
commercial manager. Leonie will ensure that all our sponsors and Business Club members get a great experience. You can contact Leonie on leoniewright@btinternet.com
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Being in the Championship is a lot more expensive than playing in the National Leagues. We receive £143k but must spend over £100k on medical costs and insurance plus much increased travel costs to the likes of Jersey and Cornish Pirates etc. So, we have made a very real effort to raise more sponsorship for Caldy and have been successful so far – although we always welcome new support. I would especially like to thank:
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face their sternest ever test in this coming season and they will need your vociferous match day support like never before, so please support our boys! If you know someone who is interested in rugby bring them along to Paton Field or even better tell them to get a season ticket. Tickets for our first home match in round one of the Championship against Hartpury this Saturday 1oth September can be purchased at https://caldyrugbyclub.
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is the highest level of the game in England to which an ambitious rugby club can realistically aspire. Our coaches and players have achieved something truly remarkable by getting us there, but it couldn’t have been achieved without the tremendous support of the rest of the Caldy rugby
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In light of Her Majesty’s passing, we dedicate this page to her memory, a patron of the RFU for 64 years, she earned the respect and affection of rugby players and supporters around the country and the rest of the world, please join us in paying tribute to her with a minute’s silence prior to kick off.
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