Senior Player Registration – ensuring that all adult players who may play in the senior squad are registered with England Rugby – we normally have close to 100 registered players in any season with 15 to 20 joining every year.

Match day official – responsible to ensure that the first team's electronic match card is completed on time each Saturday.

Match reporter – to prepare the match report for the website and then sanitize it for the local newspaper.

Getting involved with the club

Coming from Gloucester in the 50's and 60's rugby was always going to be a big part of my life and I played in the West Country and Midlands until my knee was badly damaged so I was forced to give up playing in the late 60s – remember at that time keyhole surgery wasn't even a dream.

We moved to Camberley in 1971 and soon I was commuting into the City every day with the late Bob Hughes and it was when he was Chairman of Mini and Juniors that he twisted my arm to join him at Watchetts as he was looking for a coach for the U13s and so I started in 1975. I remember it being so different from the well organised and necessarily safe setup we see today on a Sunday.

Firstly Cam were very early into mini and junior rugby, each age group only usually had a single coach and parents were used to just drop off their offspring at 10.00 on a Sunday morning and come back to pick them up at 12.00. Of course, for away games I did need to get a couple of parents to act as transport but with no rules at that time as to the number of adults required per car and also no seatbelt laws it was quite amazing how many 12/13 year old boys you can pack into a family car.

Of course this was also a time of no England rugby pathway, limited coaching courses certainly no mobile phones, no Google, Apple or Microsoft and Amazon was a large river in South America.

So that conversation on the train with Bob saw me coach U13s for 10 or so years and during this time I also had a spell as Chairman of Mini and Juniors and also became a member of the Honours Club, now sadly also defunct. The Honours Club was comprised of 15 to 20 members who had really gone above and beyond for the club and it was a great honour to be asked to join. The Honours Club was very active behind the scenes at the club supporting wherever it could and in the 90's when the club eventually moved into the National Leagues. We took on many of the tasks that were required at that level like organising off Watchetts parking at every home game, roping off the pitch which was very important as in the National Leagues clubs were required to take charge gate fees to spectators, among other things.

With the arrival of the new millennium and with the club beginning to find life at level 3 just a tad too difficult I found that I had some more free time and effectively became a bit of an odd job man on the Exec particularly during the chairmanship of Chris Gibson, and then Bill Murray who were both fantastic clubmen and brilliant friends, although sadly Bill passed away earlier this year. Theirs was a much more difficult task as the club slowly began to move back down the league structure. So, as volunteers retired or even passed, the next few years saw lots of jobs come my way.

It began with me picking up responsibility for our first website, a role I held during several iterations of web providers until just before the pandemic.

Senior fixtures came my way shortly after and it was only last year that I could hand this over to Steve, then we had the player registration followed by match cards and reports (all manual in the early days!!) which I started about 15 years ago. I also managed to have a couple of seasons running touch for the 1s and was even 1st team manager for a season when we again found ourselves short of volunteers. During that time we were slowly moving from level 3 back down to Surrey 1, level 9, which was painful in the extreme.

However, in recent years we have started to climb again and currently sit at level 5, just 1 step short of those national leagues again.

Finally I must add that I did have an immensely enjoyable stint as Club President between 2005 – 2008.

What were your first impressions

When I joined our clubhouse was actually a single storey building where the main carpark now sits although the changing rooms were where they are today. It was just as any other club I had been involved with, not much money so most of the jobs were done by the players and their partners, and in those days the club always fielded 6 + sides on a Saturday.

What's the best aspect of the club

We have managed to retain the One Club ethos albeit through some difficult times – and this must always be the goal and I'm confident that guys like Jay, Clarkey and Big Sam will work hard to ensure that this always remains the goal.

If you could change one aspect of the club what would it be and why.

I guess I just wish that we had been lucky enough to have had our own ground as this provides so much more stability in many ways.

Best Memory

Lots of great memories but the best must be 6th May 2018 at Twickenham thrashing Droitwich in the final.

Describe the club in 3 words

I'll leave that to my wonderful wife Sue who has supported me through my rugby journey of almost 60 years – I think she would say – your second home !!!

Who else would you like to see featured in 60 second with…?

Having focussed on the more mature club members so far, how about Big Sam and /or Clarkey who head up the seniors coaching team.