THE Autumn Internationals may be good for international rugby, but this period places grassroots rugby under pressure.

Sully View RFC has not had a fixture for three weeks, and it will be another three before its next game. This does not encourage players to train twice a week, and harms the social camaraderie aspects of the club.

Efforts to keep everyone involved, include the recently successful Hallowe'en Night with further events planned at the club on Saturday, December 17 and on New Year’s Eve.

The next event is the Reunion Night on Friday, November 25, starting at 7.30pm in the Market Street Club. Although attended, in the main, by the club’s older members, all players/members are welcome, with a special invitation going out to all the current players who have now settled into the newly reformed club.

As the last two reunions have been successful in raising money for charity, it has been decided that all reunions will include charity fundraising, and so those attending will be asked to contribute £5 to cover food, raffle and a donation to charity.

These get togethers are proving successful, as old friendships are revived, stories, and memories of the past exchanged, and topped off with a good old fashioned rugby sing-a-long.