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Sebastian Vermaat who has played Rugby League for the past 2 years has set up Rugby League in Bamberg University (around 50 minutes north of Nuremberg) at the beginning of May. Sadly RLD were not able to offer too much assistance except give them a couple of balls and the German Development Officer, Uwe Jansen, has not even been in contact or asked how he can help! Anyways Basti asked me if I could help. So I took along and Andreas Hand who is a German who played Rugby League at Lincoln University before coming back home last year Cook Islander Ben Puna who lives in Ingolstadt to run a Rugby League Development Day. We drove 200KM in to the unknown not really knowing how many would be there, especially with Rock im Park happening just around the corner with Metallica etc playing!
We was amazed to have over 30 people in attendance including 7 women. Some of them had played Union including one of the women, but most had no background on Rugby and so we spent 2 x 50 minutes doing the basics of Rugby League- How to pass, How to play the Ball, How to tackle around the legs, How to do a 2 man tackle, How to get up and Play the ball properly, 3 v 2 etc. We then finished off with a small game after. 2 of the women insisted in playing the full contact game and certainly didnt let themselves down. It was a great day and well done to Basti that in the spoace of a month he has regularly 30 people coming to train. Sadly despite asking the RLD for teams to play against none of the alleged Domestic teams can/will raise a team. So I have managed to put them in contact with Andy Mulhall in the Czech Rep and they will play a friendly against one of the Czech teams later in the summer.
Despite all the problems in the RLD and especially the way people have been treated,it was so refreshing to see people asking about the game and at the end saying they was so grateful we had come to help them. They want more. I have kept some of the old RL World magazines that League Publications used to send me and a had 20 odd DVDs with games from the SL and NRL which Kevin Rudd used to send me a heap of alongside from others in the game and distributed them out. Andi, Ben and Myself was taken aback how great these people was and really want to play and are desperate for us to come again. I fear they wont get much further help from the RLD or the RLEF. I actually move in September up North to Hamburg, but myself Ben and Andi have promised to keep helping them when we can with the very limited we have . A great day with great people learning about a great sport. What better day can somebody have?
P:S If anybody has recordings of SL or NRL on DVD or old Rugby League Magazines then maybe you could send me a message and I will pass them on to the people in Bamberg.
We was amazed to have over 30 people in attendance including 7 women. Some of them had played Union including one of the women, but most had no background on Rugby and so we spent 2 x 50 minutes doing the basics of Rugby League- How to pass, How to play the Ball, How to tackle around the legs, How to do a 2 man tackle, How to get up and Play the ball properly, 3 v 2 etc. We then finished off with a small game after. 2 of the women insisted in playing the full contact game and certainly didnt let themselves down. It was a great day and well done to Basti that in the spoace of a month he has regularly 30 people coming to train. Sadly despite asking the RLD for teams to play against none of the alleged Domestic teams can/will raise a team. So I have managed to put them in contact with Andy Mulhall in the Czech Rep and they will play a friendly against one of the Czech teams later in the summer.
Despite all the problems in the RLD and especially the way people have been treated,it was so refreshing to see people asking about the game and at the end saying they was so grateful we had come to help them. They want more. I have kept some of the old RL World magazines that League Publications used to send me and a had 20 odd DVDs with games from the SL and NRL which Kevin Rudd used to send me a heap of alongside from others in the game and distributed them out. Andi, Ben and Myself was taken aback how great these people was and really want to play and are desperate for us to come again. I fear they wont get much further help from the RLD or the RLEF. I actually move in September up North to Hamburg, but myself Ben and Andi have promised to keep helping them when we can with the very limited we have . A great day with great people learning about a great sport. What better day can somebody have?
P:S If anybody has recordings of SL or NRL on DVD or old Rugby League Magazines then maybe you could send me a message and I will pass them on to the people in Bamberg.
