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Talking Grass Roots with PHIL HODGSON
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THE Rugby Football League’s ‘Return to Action’ plan got off to a flying start on the weekend of 17/18 October when something like 200 youth and junior games at Under 11s and younger took place around England, from the higher points of the north east and Cumbria through to London.
That seems to me to be a very healthy figure as the amateur game seeks to resume, as best it can, in the teeth of the hurricane that is the coronavirus pandemic.
I’m writing these notes prior to games that took place during the weekend just gone, but I’d imagine that a similar number of friendly fixtures, this time from Under 12s to Under 18s, will have been completed. And, hopefully, the trend will continue this coming weekend, when Open Age pilot games are also scheduled.