Want to get back into playing rugby?
Worried about your fitness?
Want to put something back into the game?
Want to coach or become a referee?
Then why not look at what Old Walcountians has to offer.
Player of the Day: Matt Hougthon
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Thinking of joining a Rugby Club? Want to get back into playing rugby? Worried about your fitness? Want to put something back into the game? Want to coach or become a referee? Then why not look at what Old Walcountians has to offer.
Player of the Day: Matt Hougthon
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About Old Walcountians RFC |
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We welcome you to the Old Walcountians R.F.C. website. Old Walcountians were formed 78 years ago by the former boys of Wallington County Grammar School. The key objective of the club has been to promote the playing of rugby union football and encourage sportsmanship, comradeship and entertainment. This is why the O.W's is a club which takes its rugby seriously whilst maintaining the true rugby traditions of friendship and humour on and off the pitch. A testament to this is the number of new players we attract each year who find a warm reception as soon as they enter our clubhouse. An atmosphere created and maintained by Julie and Monty our full time club stewards ably assisted by their part-time staff. Our superb grounds and facilites are maintained by our talented full-time groundsman, Pat Hampson. At a time when grassroots rugby is in decline, Old Walcountians prides itself as a traditional club with all the essential elements that make rugby worth playing even down to an active "Codgers Corner". Old Walcountians History: We were formed in 1932, five years after the formation of Wallington County School. Few records are held of our pre-war history when we were based in Beddington Park. After the war we moved to Nicholas Road, then after a difficult period which included destruction by fire of our pavilion we moved to our present home in Woodmansterne. We now run four regular sides plus a veterans side and had one of our most successful seasons in 58/59 when we were unbeaten. Our captain Tony Jones, was one of a number of schoolboy internationals produced under the guidance of our former president Bill Ireland who taught rugby at the school for over 40 years. In 78/79 OW's reached the final of the Surrey Cup losing narrowly to Esher. This result was eclipsed, 30 years later, in May 2009 when we beat Old Whitgiftians in the final of the Surrey Shield. In the spring of 2002, OWRFC embarked on an experimental and radical new way of running the club. Surrounded by clubs going to the wall, others with ever diminishing numbers, OWRFC decided that drastic action was required to halt the seemingly endless malaise that afflicts so many clubs of similar standing. To that end, the club committee structures were dissolved and replaced with a management group of five individuals. Old Walcountians Contacts: OWRFC is run by a small and dynamic management group with the able and unstinting support of members of the club committee.
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