WGR and Rugby Tradition

     It's important to our league that youth rugby is about a positive team experience, about more than wins and losses.  One carry-over from the amateur and camaraderie-filled roots of rugby is the after match social.  We don't just tunnel-up, shake hands, and go on.  Both teams gather for food and drink.  Every team in WGR takes this to heart. 
     Some of the after match gatherings put on by home teams are legendary.  Oak Creek and Vernon might be tied for first-place with their bountiful feasts.  Vernon always puts on a hot meal and some good home-cooking in their covered park shelter.  Now Oak Creek has been making a push for 'best in show' in recent years with warm tacos and home-baked cookies.  We should perhaps have a player's vote at the end of the year for the best social in WGR.
     Rugby is, after all, a small world.  The longer one plays the more often players, coaches, and parents run into each other again and again.  It's rewarding to see two teams mingle together after a tough match, as seen below from this past Saturday, where both teams are sitting together..