Post subject: Where to get (very) cheap playing shirts ?
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:34 pm
Roy Haggerty
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Joined: Dec 22 2001 Posts: 5480 Location: London
For the last 18 months, myself and a fellow teacher have been running a Y9 girls team at our school in Bromley, south-east London. After much training and not a lot of playing, we've finally got ourselves some games and were recently crowned south London champions in the carnegie schools tourney. We're now through to the regional heats, and we're settig up some friendlies with a small but growing band of like-minded missionaries in the area.
Our problem is that the PE department doesn't really want to know, and this is all being done extra-curricular by two non-PE teachers. We've been nicking soccer kits to play in, but it's a bit scrappy, and we want to get at least a decent set of rugby shirts for the girls. We've managed to find £200 from an award one of our players won for the school, and she's donating it to the search, but it doesn't seem to cover the costs of any kit or set of shirts that I can find.
Do any teams out there have any contacts/knowledge of where I can go to find a set of shirts, in young adult size (the girls sizes are 8-16, which I think is the equivalent to 30"-40") ? If so, I'd be grateful for any pointers on this thread, because I'm drawing a blank right now.
Cheers.
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Joined: Mar 12 2009 Posts: 752 Location: Coventry previously South Wales and Plymouth
try emailing from the school system to any of the SL or NL1/2 teams you can think of. they will have old kits from the academies or reserves. if you ask nicely you never know. if not try the RFL say what your problems are i'm sure they could point you in the right direction.
If you haven't already done so try the RFL female development office ask for Matt Birkett or Donna Slavin, they are our contacts in the NW, if they aren’t nationwide they’ll at least be able to point you in the right direction.
All the NW girls teams were given 10 Balls, 50 cones and 4 Hi-viz vests per team last week.
I think the girls teams also get free insurance, from the rfl.
I know these thing aren’t shirts but if you can save money on these then its more towards your kit, plus I think there is some funding toward setting up new teams, but you’ll have to check that out.
I may have their contact details at home, but you should be able to get them through the RFL web site. Let me know if you need me to find them.
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