{"id":25358,"date":"2006-11-26T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/11\/26\/sunday-morning-abingdon-rugby\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T21:50:00","slug":"sunday-morning-abingdon-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25358","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning Abingdon Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/712035\/abrugby00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/33286\/abrugby00.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Well, there have been flood warnings, and the river is already overflowing its banks, so no suprise to see standing water at the Abingdon Rugby Club grounds off Lambrick Way.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/794259\/abrugby01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/806829\/abrugby01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On Sunday morning from 1o:30 there is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090429101249\/http:\/\/www.abingdonyouthrugby.co.uk:80\/\">youth training<\/a>, and spread around the large grassy area, there must have been ten or twelve different groups training &#8211; possibly two hundred children.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/542194\/abrugby02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/70327\/abrugby02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It is a commitment for parents as well. The ones I talked to had been coming regularly, one for three years, another for five. This group are running a relay sprint with the ball.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/771643\/abrugby03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/42537\/abrugby03.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Near the club house there are places for the parents to sit and drink cups of tea and coffee.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/1600\/849556\/abrugby06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/4300\/3024\/320\/406452\/abrugby06.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Come on! Keep going! Don&#8217;t look round!<\/p>\n<p>The Rugby Club have:  Under 7s, under 8&#8217;s&#8230;. all the way to under 16s teams. At the earlier ages it is a non contact sport, played with age peers, but more contact is added with age and experience. Their web site says &#8220;Your Childs safety is paramount at Abingdon RUFC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only problem, something needs to be done to improve the drainage which appears to be not working well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there have been flood warnings, and the river is already overflowing its banks, so no suprise to see standing water at the Abingdon Rugby Club grounds off Lambrick Way.On Sunday morning from 1o:30 there is youth training, and spread around the large grassy area, there must have been ten or twelve different groups training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}