Argaum Blog

Plymouth Albion’s flying winger Liam Gibson was guest of honour at the 2008 Plymouth Argaum Junior Section Presentation Evening recently. The 22 year-old, who appeared regularly on the International Sevens circuit for England before an injury earlier during the season, was on hand to present awards to the Under 13 and Under 15 squads. The event was very well attended and in a departure from recent years was held at Plymouth Albion’s Brickfields ground. As is tradition in what is now the fourth such ceremony each player received a participation trophy whilst there were also individual team awards up for grabs. Read the rest of this entry »

About 4 years ago I retired from rugby due to being too old, too fat and too broken. I have retired before, and decided that the best thing to do was to distance myself completely, not even watching, as this had the “I could have another go” effect.
I hadn’t counted on my eldest (Stephen) wanting to play at Argaum, the most social rugby club I encountered over my 15 years of playing.
He started with the under 13’s this season with a handfull of boys and two coaches, Richard Belli and Mark Turner (who I’d played rugby with for the whole of the 15 years, at Jesters, then OPM’s). I think he was recognised by Mark (he was my shadow/mascot for a couple os seasons) and it was muted that I could maybe lend a hand with coaching. At first I was a little reluctant, but arrived on a Thursday night to be faced with a group of soon to be attitude laden teenagers, what had I let myself in for. Read the rest of this entry »

With the season about to close it’s time to take stock of 2007-08, our 5th season as a junior section.

Pitch-Side Facilities - The new posts (sponsored by GMD) were long overdue and have vastly improved the look of the pitches which have held up very well this season. The railway container has given us much more space for pitch-side storage and will be powered up over the summer to provide pitch-side refreshments next season! Read the rest of this entry »