The Royals Rugby Union Club (RRUC) were given the nod to participate in the Capital Rugby Union (CRU) Competition in 2021.
President for Capital Rugby Union, Mr Kori Chan said that the decision to allow Royals RUC to join the CRU, was a consultative process between the Board and all member clubs, from which a consensus was reached to approve an application from Royals RUC to join the association.
“The inclusion of Royals RUC will add value to the CRU as the club has made great strides in developing their club and team culture and player depth, via their junior development programs and community outreach activities in their player catchment areas of 9 mile and Bomana”, said Mr Chan.
There will be conditions attached to their membership and details of these conditions will be issued in the coming days and will require agreement between RRUC and CRU.
They mainly focus on ensuring discipline, good behaviour and adopting shared values between the club and the CRU competition over a set period of time Royals now join MBB Marlins as the second Club to be admitted to the CRU in 2021, bringing the total number to ten (10) club affiliates.
An U17 Competition has been added to the association’s competition structure, thus making the CRU the biggest Provincial Union to date, with a total of six (6) grades per Club; Premier, A Grade, B Grade – U23, U19, U17, Women’s Open.
CRU has two (2) more weekends of Pre-Season Matches left, before the revamped and larger CRU Competition commences on the 13 and 14 of March 2021.
“We would like to thank all of our original member clubs for their continued support, particularly in 2020 and without their commitment, we would not have been able to conduct a small but successful XV aside competition last year”, said Mr Chan.
The Board and Operations Team of the CRU are looking forward to working with all their clubs in what will be an exciting year, as they continue to strengthen the CRU Brand and promote Rugby in NCD and throughout Papua New Guinea.