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Letter from Nedlands to RugbyWA below
very agressive letter with statements like16 December 2013
Nedlands will establish a training base for junior players at James Cook Reserve in Hillarys for the 2014 season.
James Cook Reserve is located off Banks Ave within the City of Joondalup.
Nedlands will use James Cook Reserve as a training base for junior players only during the rugby season and will initially cater for players in the 5-12 year old age bracket. The club has no intention of expanding the junior training base to include Colts or senior players.
There are no facilities at James Cook Reserve other than a public toilet block. Neddies has no plans to build or establish any other facilities on the reserve.
The move comes 27 years after the Neddies junior club was established from a training base in the northern suburbs (City Beach) in 1986, before later moving to the current training base at The Foreshore.
The move to establish a second junior training ground at James Cook Reserve has primarily been driven by approaches from current and former Nedlands players living in the northern suburbs who cannot make it to The Foreshore to take their sons and daughters to junior trainings.
Nedlands has struggled for player numbers for many of the club’s junior teams in recent years due primarily to the fact that there are four clubs (Cottesloe, Associates, University and Nedlands) competing for players in the same small area of Perth’s western suburbs.
Significantly, three of those clubs are all based within the City of Nedlands, which has population of just ~20,000.
In contrast, there is only one club in the City of Wanneroo (population ~172,000) and two clubs in the City of Joondalup (population ~165,000).
Nedlands juniors training at James Cook Reserve will join the club’s juniors who train at The Foreshore in their Saturday morning games.
Nedlands also hopes the junior training base at James Cook Reserve will also encourage more kids to take up the game of rugby.who the hell do they think they areNedlands will establish... and Nedlands will use....
and where is RugbyWA in all of this, Oh I found them with a ring arounf their necks.