Action begins at 7 p.m., with a cost of $45 based on 12 people. The coming sessions are planned for Wednesday nights on Oct. So we’re hoping to appeal to a wide range of people, if you want to come out and hang out and pass the ball around you’re more than welcome too….anything that gets people off the couch is a good thing.” And if you’ve been playing for a few years, there comes a point where you might want to run around and be social but you can’t play a contact sport any more. “It’s nice because you can mix in different age groups and different genders since there’s no contact, it’s just running and passing the ball. “Most of the time at practice we’ll play a bit of touch just to get loose and warm up, but it’s also growing as a sport in its own right,” Dawe said.
The touch version of the sport is rapidly growing, analogous to touch football and how the non-contact version of that game has taken off at rapid pace. In fact, the very same morning the misunderstanding hit the streets, Dawe had posted dates on the MJRFC’s Facebook page for upcoming touch rugby gatherings taking place four weeks through October and November at YaraCentre. “So the letter we sent said ‘hey, minor football, you can start using this since we’re not fielding a team right now, at this very moment’ But we’re definitely we’re trying to get things going and build things up.” “Then two or three years away, guys stop having interest, got a bit older and busier with work and it is what it is. “Around 2012 they started having attendance issues and getting guys out and what have you, and they had to step back from the league,” Dawe said of the local drop off in the sport. While things might not be at the heyday levels of the late 90s and earlier, there’s still a rugby club in town, folks, and if Dawe and his fellow members have anything to say about it, things are only going to get bigger and better in the near future.
That all came as news to Moose Jaw Rugby Football Club organizer Trevor Dawe, who was surprised with word from a recent city council meeting regarding Moose Jaw Minor Football taking over MacDonald Field for their practices.Īt the time, it was believed the storied club was actually shutting down for good, not just moving aside to let a much larger kids organization use a facility the MJRFC weren’t in need of at the moment. Like word getting out that another group is taking over your field of play and, oh yeah, your club is folding.
Sometimes all it takes is a minor misunderstanding to cause a bit of a major issue for an organization.
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