England call up McClarnon

Having recently been selected for the RFUW U20 squad for the coming season, Natalie McClarnon has been elevated into Johno's Squad to face the All Blacks this weekend.
The general feeling in the England camp is that that McClarnon seen above in her England shirt will more than scare the All blacks with her rendition of the Haka. aka "Dancing round her handbag"
Club coaches Gavin Scott and Tony McClarnon are on record as saying " We would rather face the all blacks ourselves than her, anyone who has seen Natters in full handbag dance soon heads for cover".
Natters who has a fearsome reputation as a "Hooker" around Harlow says she is looking forward to the game and has got some new eyeshadow and lippy for the occassion.

Sunday 23rd Nov 08

U18's v Rye

After a long journey to Rye the Basford girls were looking forward to a good game of rugby. However the poor weather conditions delayed the start plus with the limited numbers for the opposition side it didn't look promising for a free flowing game.
However the Basford girls kept up their high standards from the off and some quick hands by Megan and Fi put Emily in for a try within the first 15 seconds of the game. This was to open the flood gates and as the weather gradually improved the try count kept rising with further tries by India (5), Frank (2), Frances (2), Anna (1), Kez (3), Emily (3) and Siobhan Franklin (1).
The teams defence was again superb and with MCB and Natasha leading the way they stopped Rye's every attack at source with the oppositions main threats coming from the Basford loaned players where 'Mouse' made several side stepping runs and Jemma making powerful drives up the middle taking several players to stop her. The final score ended 85 : 0.
The team made the day a mini tour and the fun continued into the club house where the team practised several 'drinking' games ready for their forth coming tour. Again special mention to Mouse and Jemma who by selflessly volunteering to play for Rye enabled the game to go ahead.

Lookalikes

With nothing better to do whilst standing on a dark, cold, wet n windy rugby pitch watching Emily, Megs, India and Frenchie at the TDG training, young Gavin (and I use that word loosely here)and myself, came up with a brill suggestion regarding look alikes for the staff and girls.

So get your thinking heads on and send in or tell us your suggestions (So long as they are not offensive) and we will put them on here.

Basford Dinner

The Basford end of season dinner / disco will be held at the Oyster Fleet Hotel again this year on Friday 12th June 2009. Further details from Tina or Paula but you can reserve tickets now.
£5 deposit per person required a.s.a.p.

Basford Girls turn out for County side

Sunday 9th Nov 08

Last sunday saw members of the Basford teams turn out for the respective County squads at U15's & U18's.

U18's
The opposition for this round of County games was local rivals Eastern Counties who had amongst their squad many of the girls who played for Suffolk Sabres in the recent friendly win over Basford.
Without Captain Sarah MCB, Siobhan Franklin, and Jess Wilkins due to injuries or illness the girls were determined to exact revenge for the club defeat and they took the game to Eastern Counties from the off and only some desperate defending kept the Essex girls at bay.
With the majority of play taking place in the Eastern Counties final 10, it was only a matter of time before the continued pressure paid off with Scottie going over to score the first try 5-0 and duly converting the kick 7-0.
No sooner had play restarted when the Essex girls steamed back up field with the forwards taking the ball back into the E Counties 10 where a quick ball out to Fi saw her go over to make it 12-0.
Each attempt by E Counties to take play into the Essex half was quickly halted by some excellent tackling from Stumpy, Jemma, Frances and Meg in the forwards with the twins Frank and Fi causing problems for E Counties every time they got the ball.
Jen continually harassed the opposing scrum half and some quick ball out to Scottie soon had India, Frenchie, Sophie and Anna running at the E Counties line.The pressure again soon paid off with Frank going over to make it 17-0.
Turning round at half time, the E Counties girls made a rare foray into the Essex final 10 which was quickly halted again by some superb tackling and the inevitable 4th try soon followed when Scotty went over for her 2nd try to make it 22-0.
Some excellent line out play from the girls who were lifting Kez continually gave the centres the opportunity to run at E Counties defence.
A momentary slip in concentration allowed the E Counties girls to feed the ball out to the wings and run in a try to make it 22-5.
This seemed to spur the girls who quickly went back up the field and scored another well worked try for Franks 2nd of the day with Scottie converting to make it 29-5.
Just before the final whistle, an excellent break from shivvy broke the E Counties line and she ran almost to the line before being dragged down but Scottie was on her shoulder and a quick pop pass saw Scottie go over for her 3rd 34-5.

A fantastic performance from all the girls and a big thanks to Eastern Counties for making a good game of it.

The U15's won their game 55-0 however we are still awaiting the match report which will be posted asap

Sunday 2nd November

U18's v Saracens
This was the Basford girls first game against Saracens for a few seasons and the girls were all looking forward to another competitive game. Due to road works the Saracens team were late to arrive and the initial kick off was delayed. This however fired the girls up and they hit the opposition hard from the off.
Saracens kicked off and as usual Basford immediately went on the offensive with their first attack leading to a try in the first 30 seconds after an excellent break by Frances Hughes. Saracens defended well, with some big tackles and some telling runs from deep from their forwards, but the Basford girls weren't in the mood for letting anyone across their line. The lead was further extended when Emily showed a turn of pace and ran in from 25m out to score.
Three minutes later, India seemed to burst through the Saracens defence from nowhere, and a run down the touchline saw her score in the corner.
This was quickly following by another well worked backs move that saw Frenchie score under the posts.
Saracens rallied from the restart and started to press Basford back into their own 20m but, again, Basford showed that they can defend with the best and managed to weather the storm with some great tackling by Kez, Sam, stumpy & Jenny. Before half time, Emily again crossed the Saracens line for her third try, born out of a forwards drive by MCB, Jemma and Natasha. The half was to finally finish with Mouse scoring her first U18's try beating two defenders with a deft side step.
Basford kicked off the second half, and Saracens again pressed forward with Basford defending their own line to give away a scrum in their 22- and things looked good for Saracens. Unfortunately, there must have been some sort of infringement within the scrum as the referee awarded a penalty to Basford - the ball was duly kicked in to touch and Basford were out on the attack again.
In a wonderful piece of skill Emily made a tackle on a Saracens girl, forcing her to spill the ball, which was picked up by India who went over to score her second. Emily was to score a few times again with a personal tally of 50 points. The final score of the match was provided by Jess Wilkins who made an excellent run beating three opponents. Final
result: Basford 75. Saracens 0.
Well done to both teams for sticking at it to the end to make a very entertaining game.

Player of the match: Jemma Sommers


Basford Team:
Sarah MCB (Capt)
Stumpy
Jemma
Frances
Siobhan
Jen
Natasha
Scottie
India
Sam
Shivvy
Mouse
Jess W
Keziah
Frenchie

Match report courtesy of Gavin