Rochford v Folkestone Fillies
After weeks of inactivity due to the recent bad weather, the U18’s resumed their league fixtures with a “Home” game against Folkestone Fillies.
Due a fixture back log and pitches still being the worse for wear, the Rochford ground was unavailable to stage the game this weekend and it meant either another postponement or look for a different venue.
Following a few calls, Eton Manor RFC in Wanstead kindly offered the use of their ground to allow the game to go ahead.
With an almost full strength side, the girls were looking to avenge the 19-17 defeat the suffered at Folkestone on the opening day of the season.
Unfortunately things did not pan out as expected, as the first 20 minutes saw the girls playing some disjointed rugby which resulted in them being put under continuous pressure from Folkestone.
The lack of match practice and training was becoming obvious with misplaced kicks and missed tackles.
Folkestones pressure soon paid off when a passage of sustained pressure allowed the ball to be played out wide for their winger to run in a try in the corner. 0-5
From the resulting restart Folkestone again attacked the Rochford line but with the forwards starting to grow in confidence they started to push the opposition back and give Jen time to start playing balls from the back of the rucks to India and Ellie in the centres who started to make penetrating runs through the Folkestone defence.
Following a nice interchange of passing between Yaz, India and Ellie the ball was fed back to India who broke through to go over the line for the girl’s first try of the day. India duly converted the kick to give the girls at 7-5 lead.
Play moved back and forth as both sides played some good rugby looking for the next score. This came in the way of a penalty to Folkestone in front of the posts following a passage of pressure on the Rochford Line. As the penalty was put over to give Folkestone a 7-8 Lead the referee blew for half time.
The start of the 2nd half was delayed as a Folkestone player was being treated for an injury picked up prior to the penalty being awarded. Unfortunately as it looked like a bad injury to the girls ankle, play was switched to the adjoining pitch to allow the game to restart while awaiting an ambulance to arrive to look after the injury.
The 2nd half started much more positively for the Rochford girls and they were soon pegging Folkestone back on their 10m line. Following some great rucking from Sam and Megan, Jen played a lovely ball out to Yaz who sidestepped a Folkestone player and fed the ball to Ellie who went over to make it 12-8.
From the restart the girls piled forward again and with Amy continually taking the ball into the Folkestone 10 with some excellent breaks, the pressure soon paid off as Yaz picked the ball from the back of the ruck and ran wide to go over to make it 17-8.
Folkestone tried to mount a fight back but the forwards were piling in at every opportunity and winning the ball with Cat and Becki being in every ruck. The girl’s confidence by now was allowing them to play the ball across the back line and make continued breaks for the Folkestone line. This soon paid of following an interchange between Meg and Lucy which enabled Lucie to make about 10m before she was held up, a quick pass to Meg who was supporting her saw her make a further 10m before offloading back to lucie who drew the defender and played a little pop pass to Ellie who crashed through 2 defenders to go over to make it 23-8.
Following the restart the ball was collected by Lucie who spun the ball wide to Tash to make a break, a couple of inside passes soon saw the ball in Indias hands who broke through to go over under the posts 28-8.
With the minutes ticking away Ellie made a great break through for the line and with meg supporting she played the ball inside for meg to go over, however the ref deemed that the pass had gone forward and awarded a scrum to Folkestone.
This was to be the last play of what had been an entertaining game of Rugby.
Credit goes to both sides for trying to play an attacking game and despite the lack of match fitness on both sides it was a good game of rugby for all the spectators who had turned up at Eton Manor to watch.
A big big thanks go to All the staff at Eton Manor for their Hospitality and especially Jane and Gary Wood for helping to set it up. Also to Neil who kindly refereed the game.
Thanks Eton Manor RFC.
Team
1) Sam
2) Amy
3) Jemma
4) Cat
5) Becki H
6) Ellen
7)Megan
8)Lucie
9)Jen (Capt)
10) Yaz
11)India
12)Ellie
13)Tash
14)Becki F
Well done girls that puts us back in with a shout at the title again.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Reminders.
Ladies and Parents/supporters
We have booked the rugby club for friday 5th March to hold a Curry & Disco evening to raise money for the girls tour.
Julie Mugglestone and assistants are providing the food for the evening which will be followed by a demonstration of Dad dancing from Darren.
Tickets for the night are £7.50
Please speak to Paula or Tina for tickets.
Also We have booked the Oysterfleet for the Annual end of Season Dinner Dance. (June 11th)
As with previous years it is a black tie dinner.
Please see Paula and Tina to pay £10 deposit to reserve your place.
We have booked the rugby club for friday 5th March to hold a Curry & Disco evening to raise money for the girls tour.
Julie Mugglestone and assistants are providing the food for the evening which will be followed by a demonstration of Dad dancing from Darren.
Tickets for the night are £7.50
Please speak to Paula or Tina for tickets.
Also We have booked the Oysterfleet for the Annual end of Season Dinner Dance. (June 11th)
As with previous years it is a black tie dinner.
Please see Paula and Tina to pay £10 deposit to reserve your place.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Darren The intrepid traveller
Christmas Turkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whilst the rest of us were braving the snow and ice from the comfort of our living rooms with the heating on full, our intrepid traveller was enjoying the first night of his all inclusive trip to britains premier airport lounge.
Happy Hols!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Former Girls Capt gets England U20 Call up.
News reaches us this week that Natalie McClarnon who was captain of the U18's until she moved into Seniors Rugby at Saracens has been called up into the England U20 Squad for the forth coming games against Wales and France.
Natalie has retained her ties with the club (Father Tony is Head Coach for the girls section) since moving up and regularly comes along to watch the girls when she hasnt got a game.
Congratulations are extended to Natalie from all her friends at the club.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday 13th Dec 09 v ACT Jaguars
Now that the County programme is behind us, the girls set about their league fixtures with a home game again ACT Jaguars, (Aylesford Bulls)
With the Rochford boys having played earlier, there was quite a crowd of players and parents who stayed to watch the girls and they were not to be disappointed.
U15’s
Rochford U15's won a hard fought contest with Aylesford Bulls on Sunday 19 - 7 Facing a side of Kent players who had previously beaten our girls, the game started with Aylesford having the territorial advantage for much of the first half. Some solid defending form Maddie and skipper Olivia and try saving tackles by Abbie G and Abbie C kept the score line even. As the half progressed the forwards began to come into their own and started to get more possession, but unfortunately poor handling often led to attacks breaking down before any great pressure was put on the Aylesford line. The half ended even with neither side being able to score. Rochford upped their game in the second half as the forwards started to compete more aggressively and win a lot more ball and drive the Kent side back. Ball was being set up and released to the backs where Olivia, Jess, Bianca, Maddie and Abbie G had attacking runs finished by desperate Bulls defending. Although the lineout was not working well the scrum was working well and good ball was being won on a regular basis. Eventually the passing of the ball found Abbie G in space and the speedster raced around the defence to score uner the posts with Maddie adding the conversion to give a deserved lead. The lead was soon increased as Rochford chased and harried a kick ahead from Maddie and from the resulting ruck near the Aylesford line Faye gathered the ball and squirmed over near the posts to give Maddie another conversion chance which she took. This seemed to awake Aylesford to greater urgency and from the kick off pounced on a loose ball, after a hesitation in the Rochford defence, and managed to drive forward and score near the posts to give a conversion chance which they took to make the score 14 - 7. Aylesford continued to press but were penalised for various infringements on a regular basis. Rochford took advantage of this and continued to counter attack with runs from the backs. One in particular by Abbie C almost paid off but she was unable to force her way through with 4 defenders just holding her. Time was ticking away and in the last play of the game the ball was passed out to Abbie G who managed to outpace the cover defence to score in the corner and so end the game with a well deserved 19 - 7 victory.
U18’s
Having been reduced to the bare minimum 15 prior to kick off with the withdrawal of 3 players the Rochford girls faced a tough encounter against one of the leagues strongest teams. With both sides fielding county and regional players it promised to be a lively game.
From the kick off the Rochford girls took the game to ACT and were rewarded within the first 3 minutes with a try by India following some great handling and off loading by Lucie and Ellie in the centres.5-0. From the restart the girls quickly pushed forward into the ACT 10, and were again rewarded with a superbly taken try from India. 10-0. With the bit between their teeth the girls carried on pushing forward looking for more points to widen the gap between the teams. With Sam Smith commanding as ever in the front row the forwards were driving over and allowing Jen to play quick ball out to the backs. Within 10 minutes the girls had made the breakthrough they were after as Tash was fed out on the wing to run in try no 3 under the posts. 15-0
ACT slowly started to force their way back into the game and their forwards started to take control allowing their backs plenty of ball to run at the Rochford line. Solid defending by the girls with the backs in Tash, India and Ellie making some important tackles kept ACT at bay until just on half time when they broke through to make it 15-5.
The second half started with ACT pushing to try and narrow the score and with the Rochford girls infringing at the break down the referee seemed the busiest person on the pitch.
The Rochford forwards soon started to get a hold back on the game and some nice runs from Ellen gained valuable yards. With Sam and Amy making big hits from the front row, the girls were dominating the scrums and all but one of the line outs were won by Meg following some excellent lifting from Cat and Jemma.
Having lost one of their front row to an injury, ACT requested that the game went to uncontested scrums which took the slight advantage away from the Rochford Girls, however with Jen sniping around the scrum the pressure was kept on ACT and was duly rewarded with a 4th try by Ellie which was duly converted by India. 22-5.
The game had to be halted with 10 mins to go to allow the Air Ambulance to land on the adjacent pitch due to an injury to an ACT u15.
Hopes for a speedy recovery are sent from all at Rochford.
The win gives the girls a big boost ready for the upcoming game on the 20th against Saracens.
Team: Sam, Amy, Jemma, Cat, Becky, Bron, Megan, Ellen, Jen (Capt), Yaz, India, Lucie, Ellie, Tash, Becky F.
Well done girls a great result that lifts you back up the league.
With the Rochford boys having played earlier, there was quite a crowd of players and parents who stayed to watch the girls and they were not to be disappointed.
U15’s
Rochford U15's won a hard fought contest with Aylesford Bulls on Sunday 19 - 7 Facing a side of Kent players who had previously beaten our girls, the game started with Aylesford having the territorial advantage for much of the first half. Some solid defending form Maddie and skipper Olivia and try saving tackles by Abbie G and Abbie C kept the score line even. As the half progressed the forwards began to come into their own and started to get more possession, but unfortunately poor handling often led to attacks breaking down before any great pressure was put on the Aylesford line. The half ended even with neither side being able to score. Rochford upped their game in the second half as the forwards started to compete more aggressively and win a lot more ball and drive the Kent side back. Ball was being set up and released to the backs where Olivia, Jess, Bianca, Maddie and Abbie G had attacking runs finished by desperate Bulls defending. Although the lineout was not working well the scrum was working well and good ball was being won on a regular basis. Eventually the passing of the ball found Abbie G in space and the speedster raced around the defence to score uner the posts with Maddie adding the conversion to give a deserved lead. The lead was soon increased as Rochford chased and harried a kick ahead from Maddie and from the resulting ruck near the Aylesford line Faye gathered the ball and squirmed over near the posts to give Maddie another conversion chance which she took. This seemed to awake Aylesford to greater urgency and from the kick off pounced on a loose ball, after a hesitation in the Rochford defence, and managed to drive forward and score near the posts to give a conversion chance which they took to make the score 14 - 7. Aylesford continued to press but were penalised for various infringements on a regular basis. Rochford took advantage of this and continued to counter attack with runs from the backs. One in particular by Abbie C almost paid off but she was unable to force her way through with 4 defenders just holding her. Time was ticking away and in the last play of the game the ball was passed out to Abbie G who managed to outpace the cover defence to score in the corner and so end the game with a well deserved 19 - 7 victory.
U18’s
Having been reduced to the bare minimum 15 prior to kick off with the withdrawal of 3 players the Rochford girls faced a tough encounter against one of the leagues strongest teams. With both sides fielding county and regional players it promised to be a lively game.
From the kick off the Rochford girls took the game to ACT and were rewarded within the first 3 minutes with a try by India following some great handling and off loading by Lucie and Ellie in the centres.5-0. From the restart the girls quickly pushed forward into the ACT 10, and were again rewarded with a superbly taken try from India. 10-0. With the bit between their teeth the girls carried on pushing forward looking for more points to widen the gap between the teams. With Sam Smith commanding as ever in the front row the forwards were driving over and allowing Jen to play quick ball out to the backs. Within 10 minutes the girls had made the breakthrough they were after as Tash was fed out on the wing to run in try no 3 under the posts. 15-0
ACT slowly started to force their way back into the game and their forwards started to take control allowing their backs plenty of ball to run at the Rochford line. Solid defending by the girls with the backs in Tash, India and Ellie making some important tackles kept ACT at bay until just on half time when they broke through to make it 15-5.
The second half started with ACT pushing to try and narrow the score and with the Rochford girls infringing at the break down the referee seemed the busiest person on the pitch.
The Rochford forwards soon started to get a hold back on the game and some nice runs from Ellen gained valuable yards. With Sam and Amy making big hits from the front row, the girls were dominating the scrums and all but one of the line outs were won by Meg following some excellent lifting from Cat and Jemma.
Having lost one of their front row to an injury, ACT requested that the game went to uncontested scrums which took the slight advantage away from the Rochford Girls, however with Jen sniping around the scrum the pressure was kept on ACT and was duly rewarded with a 4th try by Ellie which was duly converted by India. 22-5.
The game had to be halted with 10 mins to go to allow the Air Ambulance to land on the adjacent pitch due to an injury to an ACT u15.
Hopes for a speedy recovery are sent from all at Rochford.
The win gives the girls a big boost ready for the upcoming game on the 20th against Saracens.
Team: Sam, Amy, Jemma, Cat, Becky, Bron, Megan, Ellen, Jen (Capt), Yaz, India, Lucie, Ellie, Tash, Becky F.
Well done girls a great result that lifts you back up the league.
Friday, November 27, 2009
2009/2010 Easter Tour
Yes ladies its that time again. Preparations for this seasons tour are underway and as usual we will be away from the 2/4/10 until 5/4/10. (Good Friday to Easter Monday).
This Years Theme is "Shaun of the Dead"
As usual fancy dress is compulsary and all tourists are to come as Zombies
We have booked to stay in the YHA at Whitby (next to the Abbey) and will be playing a local Yorkshire team (location to be confirmed but looking like Scarborough) on the Saturday and if all goes to plan a game on the sunday with a team from the North East.
Most people have paid their deposits but if you haven't can you see Paula asap.
Further details of must have accessories will be notified in due course.
Tour this year will be led by Bob (Ozzie Ozborne) Lockwood You have been warned!!!!
This Years Theme is "Shaun of the Dead"
As usual fancy dress is compulsary and all tourists are to come as Zombies
We have booked to stay in the YHA at Whitby (next to the Abbey) and will be playing a local Yorkshire team (location to be confirmed but looking like Scarborough) on the Saturday and if all goes to plan a game on the sunday with a team from the North East.
Most people have paid their deposits but if you haven't can you see Paula asap.
Further details of must have accessories will be notified in due course.
Tour this year will be led by Bob (Ozzie Ozborne) Lockwood You have been warned!!!!
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