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Speaker 1: Good news from a good idea. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: good idea. In Rugby County's manacaw first union to script

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Speaker 1: junior fees a couple of years ago. Others are doing

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Speaker 1: the same now and as a result of that, of

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Speaker 1: course numbers are up. And as a result of numbers

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Speaker 1: being up, they had more teams. So Matt mcgare is

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Speaker 1: the head of community rugby at County's Manicaran is with us.

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Speaker 2: Matt, morning to you, thanks for me.

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Speaker 1: Not at all is this silver Lake money?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: For us, it is right, so you don't lose out.

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Speaker 1: They come and they help grassroots rugby and everyone's winter.

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Speaker 1: Is that how that theory works?

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Speaker 2: Yep. In short, we were fortunate enough to get a

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Speaker 2: million dollars from silver Lake, and because we had no

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Speaker 2: gubt to anything to service, we decided to put that

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Speaker 2: into a long term deposit and then use that interest

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Speaker 2: to funnel back out to junior rugby.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant. What were the fees and were they a material impediment?

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Speaker 2: We have sixteen clubs and each of those clubs have

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Speaker 2: their own set fee structure. Some had minimal fees or

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Speaker 2: some one club already had zero fees. But because I've

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Speaker 2: been able to support the community with that. We now

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Speaker 2: have five clubs who provide zero ceeds completely and a lot.

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Speaker 2: There's size down to as low as twenty dollars.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you got there was a material they'd say,

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Speaker 1: I would play if I could afford it, but times

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Speaker 1: are tight so I can't. So that was real.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. We've got families who have multiple

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Speaker 2: kids playing at the same club. The cost effective everything

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Speaker 2: is going up at the moment, so anything we can

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Speaker 2: do to decrease there is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Is five percent a good number by way of increasing

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Speaker 1: the number of players?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is again given the current climate,

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Speaker 2: there are so many things for kids to do these

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Speaker 2: days rugby. I believe it is on the city and client,

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Speaker 2: especially in our area. So yeah, it's real positive for us.

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Speaker 1: Are you seeing it has because you did this a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. With more players, does do you

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Speaker 1: get more competition and with more competition do you get

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Speaker 1: more skilled there for an improvement in the overall sports

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Speaker 1: participation and skill development aspect?

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Speaker 2: Dobmin, Yeah, we do. We're seeing huge growth and the

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Speaker 2: ripper numbers it's under sixers, under sevens in our girls

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Speaker 2: game as well, coming down those barriers getting first time

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Speaker 2: participants back, and we have a really good retention rate

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Speaker 2: of our zinias also, which is amazing. But as with anything, problems,

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Speaker 2: apace solutions come with some problems too, so as our

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Speaker 2: clubs continue to grow, they then need more jerseys, more equipments,

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Speaker 2: more field space, so there's some positives also.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, mate, nice to talk to you appreciate it

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Speaker 1: very much. Matt Micare, head of Community Rugby at Counties Manica.

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