HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We kick off the New Year tomorrow with a 2.30 pm home game against Chew Valley 1st XV. Many thanks to match day sponsor St Austell Brewery.
Brixham Trawlers (walking rugby)are also playing Chew Valley with a kick off time yet to be confirmed.

RIP Melvin Todd

As we start 2025 in our 150^th anniversary season, it is with sadness that we at Brixham Rugby Club, record and acknowledge the sad passing of another Past Player from our rich heritage of Brixham characters. Melvin (Mel) Todd sadly passed away this week.
Mel, played a number of games for the first team at Astly Park in the second row, alongside the likes of Ray  Gardner in the early 1960s
Norman Marler has shared that unusually for a forward, he was a renowned kicker, using the toe punt method of the time. Such was the power of his kicks that once when converting a goal at the bottom end, the ball sailed out of sight never to be seen again. A local paper, prob the Herald Express, picked up on this and reported, tongue in cheek, that a fisherman had picked the ball up later, in the sea off Berryhead!
Melvin worked for Maurice Coopman at Brixham Steel Constructional down by the harbour in the ’60s. Maurice, Chairman of the club made sure that each employee had a certain skill and Melvin’s was wrought iron work, at which he excelled. I think it was in the late 70s that he left to carry on his own business working mostly on the trawlers.
When Mel finished playing he was a real character within the social side of the club helping to organise and being a key part in many a sing-song in the clubhouse.
It is individuals like Melvin, that Brixham Rugby Club is built on, and in this, our 150^th season, we give thanks for him and all from our past, present and future.
From all at Brixham RFC, we send our condolences, love, thoughts and prayers to his daughters, Lisa and Mandy and all members of his family and friends.
‘Rest in peace Mel as you go over the bar for the last time’

Chris Forster
Chairman