Prebbleton Rugby Club is just one of many country rugby clubs in Canterbury, which are putting initiatives in place to remove the stigma of mens mental health.
At the completion of training on Thursday evenings, the entire senior group, consisting of five teams from Under-18 to Division 1 are treated to dinner, involving more than 100 players and management.
President of the Prebbleton Rugby Club Jeromy Knowler said the post-training feeds were at first just sausages and bread, an incentive to get more numbers to trainings.
The initiative has now run for four years, and Knowler said the most important thing was to continue getting the club together, chatting amongst themselves, with the opportunity to discuss anything that is happening in each others livelihoods.