Tamar Trotters Saltash

5^th July 2007 Bill Phillips / John smith

Trotters

Dear All

Thank you to all of you who attended the meeting on Tuesday 3^rd July and the people who contacted us because they were unable to be there. For the benefit of those who were not there and perhaps to summarise for those who were, the committee feel that you should understand the decisions that were taken and the reasons behind them.

Earlier in the year, the Rugby Club had indicated that they were looking to return to training their senior sides on Tuesdays and Thursdays and over the last three months we have examined and considered ten other options within the Saltash area. In recent weeks we have again spoken to the Chairman of Saltash RFC who made it very clear that to continue to train on Tuesdays and Thursdays was not an option available to us.

The venue that was put forward as the preferred option was after careful consideration but allows you off road parking facilities and exclusivity of use; two important factors that aren’t available to you at the Rugby Club throughout the year. It may not offer everything that the Club desires but it does go a long way towards it.

The vote to move was carried by a very significant majority but it is important that the major point is understood. It was not about the change of training nights at the Rugby Club but the imposition of those nights by a third party if we stayed. In this way we continue to control our own future.

The other vote considered our future and by an almost unanimous vote it was agreed that the best long term option was to acquire a plot of land and to build our own clubhouse.

In closing we would like to make one point clear:

The Rugby Club has made its decision in the best interests of their future. Our decisions have been made for exactly the same reasons – our decisions, our control, our future.

Bill