Bulldogs commend husband-and-wife group with top bar honour

By Paul Svoboda

Updated 5 hours ago

On a field, a success of any rugby bar depends on teamwork. Off a field, it’s a same.

That matter rang loyal during a Belleville Bulldogs Rugby Football Club’s annual post-season awards party hold recently during a Shrine Club, where a husband-and-wife group of Rob and Janet Furmidge perceived a organization’s top honour — Bulldog of a Year.

“It’s a many prestigious fame we, as a club, can give,” pronounced Bulldogs bar president, Josh Chambers. “It’s customarily awarded to people who uncover good efforts on and off a field, though this year’s honours went to Rob and Janet for their continual contributions to a raise of a Bulldogs, a internal rugby village and a expansion of rugby in a bar and a Quinte region.”

Though conjunction of a Furmidges indeed plays rugby, Chambers pronounced no other people were as heavily concerned in a operations of a bar in 2011 than they were. Especially behind a scenes.

“I don’t consider a 2011 season, for all of a sides, would’ve been probable though them,” pronounced Chambers. “They were during each singular diversion and bar duty — from a U15 girls games to Old Boys matches — and it seemed like they were everywhere, assisting out in whatever approach they could.

“Whether it was environment adult a fields for matches, entertaining on a teams, organizing proffer opportunities. They were there.

“Rob and Janet were tremendous.”

Rob even helped manager a U16 boys Junior Bulldogs patrol that won a first-ever Ontario championship with a thrilling, last-second win over a Ottawa Bytown Blues.

“The rugby bar is like family to Rob and Janet,” pronounced Chambers. “I can’t suppose a bar though them.”

Other Bulldog endowment winners from a 2011 deteriorate were:

Mia Legato, U15 girls, MVP; Joey Thompson and Josh Furmidge, U16 boys, co-MVPs; Nathan Shakura and Devon Fobert, U16 boys, many softened players; Hunter Clement, 18 girls, rookie of a year; Emily Babcock, U18 girls, many softened player; Sarah Roblin, U18 girls, MVP; Matt Mullins, U18 boys, rookie of a year; Eric Donahoe, U18 boys, many softened player; Brian McCandie, U18 boys, MVP; Chris Thornton, U20 men, MVP; Jenna Woodward, comparison women, rookie of a year; Lindsay Depape, comparison women, many softened player; Brianna Newman, comparison women, MVP; Cole Plume, comparison men, rookie of a year; Ferrando Palacious, comparison men, many softened player; Kyle Ripley, comparison men, MVP; Scott Semple, Old Boy of a year.

Along with a U16 boys provincial title, another Bulldog prominence in 2011 was a comparison men’s group winning a Social Division championship during a prestigious Can Am Rugby Tournament in Saranac Lake, N.Y. — another initial for a club.

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