Tonight Feb 03/02/10 somebody tried to break into Normanton Knights Rugby Club.

However the person/persons failed to do so, so in a mindless act of criminal damage decided to to set the club alight.

It has caused a considerable amount of damage which will affect the club for sometime to come and will hinder all age groups at the club who play rugby there.

The club will endeavour to continue to play rugby at all age groups but a bit of juggling maybe involved. Normanton Knights apologise to all clubs who have fixtures at junior/youth and open age groups for any inconvienience.

The bar area is a total write off and we have no power at the moment, the changing rooms are not affected but Im unsure about hot water for the showers at the moment.

I will try to keep people informed as some local clubs will have fixtures there soon. Please be paitient as everything will be up in the air for the moment.

Yours in Sport
NK.

PS, to say I'm gutted is the biggest understatement of the year.

Happened at Crigg a few times and its shocking, sorry to hear this.

lets just hope they find the are soles! so they get what they deserve! which imo wont be strong enough!

The work these amateur clubs do is the lifeblood for the professional game and I hope the clubs who gain from the work done can help when things like this happen. Good luck getting sorted and I hope the idiots responsible get caught ASAP before they cause more damage to property and people.

That's shocking, hope you get is sorted, and obviously hope they find out who was responsible

unfortunately like with crigg it will more than likely be locals which is just plain crazy .....if they were to be found i think that the under 16s should show their displeasure.

no great fan of Normy but untied in wanting the culprits caught.