The Letchworth Girls' Rugby 'blog originally contained news and information about girls' rugby section based at Letchworth Garden City RUFC between 2004 and 2010, but these days is mainly a source of information, discussion and speculation about women's and girls' rugby in England and overseas.
Though the girls have moved on the blog continues in order to preserve and honour the memories of the greatest bunch of young people to have ever played the game (IMHO!). It is aimed at players past and present, as well as anyone else interested in women's rugby who might be trying to make sense of what on earth is going on, even if that meant going to an unofficial and uncensored source of speculation, debate and discussion about the game.
It has no official connection with any girls' or women's teams currently representing Letchworth GC RUFC is NOT an official website within the meaning of RFU Regulation 5.
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ReplyDeletesasha
can I ask a question, how come your club only plays against Ampthill and kettering all the time
ReplyDeleteis there a problem getting games
Well, its Dorking next week...
ReplyDeleteI think we've only played Kettering twice - as often as Basford I think. Add in Westcliff, Worcester, Saracens, etc. and its fairly diverse.
OTOH there are auite a few games with Ampthill. but that is mainly because they are a) nearby and b) we are trying to build links with them so the more games the better - in a sense they are almost opposed training because our girls guest for them and visa versa. They have also filled in when we have had unexpected gaps due to withdrawls.
But you are not far wrong. There are - in truth - fewer clubs to play now than even two seasons ago. When we began there were more clubs in or near Hertfordshire than there are now in the entire East Region - Stevenage, Bishops Stortford, Hemel, Cheshunt, Fullers, Uttlesford to name but a few who are no more.
These were not small clusb with 2/3 girls. All of them had full teams at one age group, or both - and very few of their girls moved to other clubs when they folded (for whatever reason). Questions might usefully be asked in some quarters I think.
And south of us we are now increasingly limited as many of our "traditional" opponents now play in leagues which limits what we can do.