“Without volunteers, the players would be turning up and there’d be no drink bottles, no clean guernseys, the padding wouldn’t be around the posts, the umpires wouldn’t be organised, the coaches’ boxes wouldn’t be ready, the canteen wouldn’t have any food. It’s all volunteers, and players in most clubs probably don’t realise how important the volunteers are. Players think they just turn up, put a jumper on and it all happens like magic. But it’s actually lots and lots of people doing things in their own time.”