The club \u2013 an amalgamation of the former Burnham, Dunsandel and Irwell clubs, affiliated to the Ellesmere sub-union \u2013 posted on social media announcing it would suspend play while its players recover from their injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs many of you are aware, our team van was involved in a serious incident on Saturday night,\u201d said BDI Division 2 coach Steve Devereaux.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral of our mates were injured and taken to hospital for treatment. We are incredibly grateful the situation was not worse, though a few of our lads now face a long road to recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to express our sincere appreciation to the first responders and the volunteer fire brigades who came to our aid. Their quick actions and support made a tremendous difference during an extremely difficult moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a team, we have made the tough decision to end our season. We finished the season strongly leading into the finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe past 24 hours have been mentally draining for everyone across the club, but the messages of support we\u2019ve received have meant a great deal to us all.<\/p>\n
\u201cRugby is the game we love, but it\u2019s the mateship that truly binds us together. We will regroup, we will heal and we will come back strong in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n
The BDI Div 2 team visited nearby Kirwee for a round-11 clash, winning 48-29 to consolidate their third placing on the competition ladder.<\/p>\n
– RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club \u2013 an amalgamation of the former Burnham, Dunsandel and Irwell clubs, affiliated to the Ellesmere sub-union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,8126,3549,50514,4726,42,29510,43,10702,6327,6926,7187,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-510818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-canterbury","tag-crash","tag-darfield","tag-ends","tag-headlines","tag-injures","tag-news","tag-players","tag-rugby","tag-season","tag-team","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}