Squad Announcement

July 22, 2010

Newbury RFC would like to make announcements about squad players from last season.

The following players have moved on or have made it known to us that they will not be playing at Newbury next season:

Ien Ascroft-Leigh – Cambridge
Jack Bentall – Unknown
Huw Bevan – London Scottish
Mitch Burton – Unknown
Finlay Coxon-Smith – Unknown
Sean Fox – Taunton
Dan Hodge – Cross Keys
Ed Jackson – Doncaster
Craig McGrath – London Scottish
Chris Rowland – Esher
Scott Witcomb – Taunton

We wish all of these players the best for next season, although, we could meet up with a couple when we play Taunton. A good number of these players have moved to clubs at a higher level & Newbury continues to be a club that aims to improve players.

Chris Ridgers is on trial at Birmingham & Solihull. We wish Chris well in his aim to get into a Championship team. Chris will keep us informed of his future.

Charlie Perry has recently begun work in The City & is finding it hard to dedicate anytime to rugby at the moment. He will keep us informed of his future plans.

The following have not made us aware of their plans for this season, as yet, & we are still hopeful that we can find a way of keeping them involved:

Paul Fincken
Matt Humphries
Mike Mangeolles

The following players from last season’s squad will be staying:

Jack Avery
Karl Buttle
Andrew Cannock
Tom Fidler
Martin Freeman
Andy Gale
Calum McGregor
Jamie Monger
Matt Oliver
Liam Perkins
Greg Price
Ben West
Alistair Widdop

There have been a number of new players attending training during the first 3 weeks of pre-season & we hope to be in a position to make some announcements by the beginning of August.

There is a sense of disappointment in the number of players that have chosen to move on but we have to accept this as an inevitable factor in modern rugby. This disappointment is counteracted by the number of new & talented players that have been attending training. The group have already begun to show that are capable of playing a style of rugby that will be enjoyable & exciting to play & watch. We have asked them to remain positive in everything they do & we ask the same of all those that support Newbury RFC.

I should remind everyone that we will be fielding a 1^st & 2^nd team most weeks. This will require a big squad of players (we have already had 55 players attending pre-season). We will be trying to work the fixtures so That there will be either a 1^st team of 2^nd team fixture to watch, at home, each weekend.

Andy Widdop
Director of Rugby

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