NTU Rugby has refused to deny reports of an imminent merger of the club with NTU Sports Club.

A spokesman for the NTU Rugby would not comment on reports that NTU Sports Club was prepared to offer NTU Rugby a chance of a merger and that idea was put forth to members of the rugby club.

According to reports, several players of the rugby club were at Botok Jones discussing the prospect of joining up with the Sports Club and later in the evening, a special meeting was setup between the rugby club and Sports club representative.

NTU Sports Club is a high profile club in NTU and was officially launched in 1991, with the aim of promoting all kinds of sports activities in NTU. Sports Club is under the umbrella of the Students' Union as a non-academic constituent club, together with other academic clubs belonging to other schools (eg. Accountancy and Business Club, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Club) and 2 other non-academic constituent clubs (Welfare Services Club and Cultural Activities Club).

"Sports Club is feverish about promoting all sorts of sporty activities."

A spokeswoman for the Sports Club confirmed that there has been contact from the rugby club and talks have been going on.

However a spokesman for the rugby club insisted he had no knowledge of whether Sports Club was interested to take in the Rugby Club and could only say that all these rumours are baseless and should be ignored.

He later added that Sports Club "welcome anyone who has the objective of promoting their sports and healthy lifestyle" to be under them.

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