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Comment - This club traces it's roots back to 1875, and according to it's website
[1] has had at least one England representative play Test rugby while with the club. The league system in England wasn't formed until 1987, so just because the club has never risen high within the league system doesn't mean it was not more highly regarded sometime in it's first 112 years. Is there any information on this? Someone with access to UK newspaper archives may know, I've found a few mentions:
[2],
[3]. There are no doubt others. My feeling is that this club is notable (even though no longer a strong side), but with older clubs like this it takes a bit more research to know for sure. --
Shuddetalk 11:41, 4 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep This club has played in the national leagues so therefore it is notable enough for it to have its own article on wikipedia.
Keep - the club has some historical significance - its forerunner clubs date back to the 1870s and as pointed out above it has provided England internationals and British Lions, as shown on the club's website. --
Bcp67 (
talk) 21:17, 5 January 2014 (UTC)reply
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Comment - This club traces it's roots back to 1875, and according to it's website
[1] has had at least one England representative play Test rugby while with the club. The league system in England wasn't formed until 1987, so just because the club has never risen high within the league system doesn't mean it was not more highly regarded sometime in it's first 112 years. Is there any information on this? Someone with access to UK newspaper archives may know, I've found a few mentions:
[2],
[3]. There are no doubt others. My feeling is that this club is notable (even though no longer a strong side), but with older clubs like this it takes a bit more research to know for sure. --
Shuddetalk 11:41, 4 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep This club has played in the national leagues so therefore it is notable enough for it to have its own article on wikipedia.
Keep - the club has some historical significance - its forerunner clubs date back to the 1870s and as pointed out above it has provided England internationals and British Lions, as shown on the club's website. --
Bcp67 (
talk) 21:17, 5 January 2014 (UTC)reply
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