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
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
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
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
Friday, October 31, 2008
Basford Babes Selected for England U20 Squad!
We couldn't be more proud of Natalie (Capn Natterz) McClarnon and Sophie (Mophead) Russell for making the England U20 Squad.
After a succession of trials both have finally made it, and it is a tribute to their hard work and commitment. We are also very proud of Cherelle Alphonse who lost out in the final cut, and Sarah Carman. Try again next year girls we have every faith you can do it!
Good luck for the future,
The remaining Babes, Manager and Coaching Staff.
After a succession of trials both have finally made it, and it is a tribute to their hard work and commitment. We are also very proud of Cherelle Alphonse who lost out in the final cut, and Sarah Carman. Try again next year girls we have every faith you can do it!
Good luck for the future,
The remaining Babes, Manager and Coaching Staff.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday 26th October
Basford v Folkestone U18's
Week 2 of the league calender saw the girls travel down into Kent to play Folkestone Fillies.
Travelling down the M20 in pouring rain didnt look like it was going to make for a quick running game of rugby. However on arrival the rain suddenly stopped and allowed the 1st half to be played in overcast conditions.
With the ball becoming greasy and slippy due to the wet ground the early play was a stop start affair with both sides making untold handling errors.
For the first 10 minutes Folkestone had the Basford girls on the back foot but could not find a way to penetrate the Basford defence. Having soaked up the early Folkestone pressure the girls started to dominate at the rucks and mauls, and some good passing from Jen allowed the back line of Emily, India, Tash(BirthdayGirl), Siobhan, Sam and Frenchie to continually run at the Folkestone defence. Only some poor handling at times stopped the girls applying more pressure on the home side.
The breakthrough came with an excellent drive from the forwards which allowed Jen to go over to make it 5-0. Emily duly converted to make it 7-0.
Shortly after this another great piece of pressure from the forwards led by MCB gave Jen the opportuntiy to feed scottie who released India with a telling pass and she went over to make it 12-0. Emily stepped up to convert it 14-0.
Turning round in the 2nd half, the weather had changed and the girls were now playing at times in torrential rain which again caused some uncharacteristic handling errors.
The forwards were causing the home side all sorts of problems and some excellent tackling from Stumpy, Jemma, Megan, Francis and frankie kept the imputus on going forward. Emily in the centres was running the game with some excellent interplay with India. Some good support play midway through the 2nd half almost increased the score when mouse was running through in support to recieve the ball only to be bundled into touch just short of the line.
It wasnt long though before the girls got the further breakthrough when frenchie went over to make it 19-0.
India increased the lead almost straight from the restart following some great handling to make it 24-0, this was quickly followed by Frankie coming forward to support the forwards and recieve the ball to power over 29-0. Emily duly converted to make it 31-0. With time ebbing away the girls mounted one last attack and some excellent support play from Francis saw her recieve the ball and go over to make it 36-0.
Despite the conditions it was a good alround performance from the girls with the forwards doing their job and pressuring the opponents and the backs using their speed to run lines and break the defence.
Well done to all those girls.
Man of the match as voted by Folkestone Emily Scott.
After match honours also went to Basford largely due to the fact that Jens mouth can take a whole mars bar Ha Ha Ha
Thanks to Folkestone for your hospitality and we look forward to seeing you all shortly at Basford.
Week 2 of the league calender saw the girls travel down into Kent to play Folkestone Fillies.
Travelling down the M20 in pouring rain didnt look like it was going to make for a quick running game of rugby. However on arrival the rain suddenly stopped and allowed the 1st half to be played in overcast conditions.
With the ball becoming greasy and slippy due to the wet ground the early play was a stop start affair with both sides making untold handling errors.
For the first 10 minutes Folkestone had the Basford girls on the back foot but could not find a way to penetrate the Basford defence. Having soaked up the early Folkestone pressure the girls started to dominate at the rucks and mauls, and some good passing from Jen allowed the back line of Emily, India, Tash(BirthdayGirl), Siobhan, Sam and Frenchie to continually run at the Folkestone defence. Only some poor handling at times stopped the girls applying more pressure on the home side.
The breakthrough came with an excellent drive from the forwards which allowed Jen to go over to make it 5-0. Emily duly converted to make it 7-0.
Shortly after this another great piece of pressure from the forwards led by MCB gave Jen the opportuntiy to feed scottie who released India with a telling pass and she went over to make it 12-0. Emily stepped up to convert it 14-0.
Turning round in the 2nd half, the weather had changed and the girls were now playing at times in torrential rain which again caused some uncharacteristic handling errors.
The forwards were causing the home side all sorts of problems and some excellent tackling from Stumpy, Jemma, Megan, Francis and frankie kept the imputus on going forward. Emily in the centres was running the game with some excellent interplay with India. Some good support play midway through the 2nd half almost increased the score when mouse was running through in support to recieve the ball only to be bundled into touch just short of the line.
It wasnt long though before the girls got the further breakthrough when frenchie went over to make it 19-0.
India increased the lead almost straight from the restart following some great handling to make it 24-0, this was quickly followed by Frankie coming forward to support the forwards and recieve the ball to power over 29-0. Emily duly converted to make it 31-0. With time ebbing away the girls mounted one last attack and some excellent support play from Francis saw her recieve the ball and go over to make it 36-0.
Despite the conditions it was a good alround performance from the girls with the forwards doing their job and pressuring the opponents and the backs using their speed to run lines and break the defence.
Well done to all those girls.
Man of the match as voted by Folkestone Emily Scott.
After match honours also went to Basford largely due to the fact that Jens mouth can take a whole mars bar Ha Ha Ha
Thanks to Folkestone for your hospitality and we look forward to seeing you all shortly at Basford.
Sunday 26th Oct
Basford v Folkestone U15's
After a sluggish start the Basford girls were stung into life following a break from the folkestone backs which resulted in them going over to take the lead 5-0. It took a further 12 minutes of attacking play before Basford got the breakthrough when Abi Graham went over to level the scores 5-5. 2 further tries by Abi and Abbie Cook both of which were converted by Lucy wood gave the girls a half time lead of 19-5.
Early in the second half Lucy herself powered over the line to make it 24-5 and then successfully put away the conversion 26-5. The Basford girls started to increase the pressure on the Folkestone line which resulted in further tries for Olivia, Yasmin, abbie and Layla (2) with lucy successfully converting one try.
Despite the appalling weather conditions that caused both teams to make many handling errors, the Basford girls game in the second half was by far their best yet with some telling drives by the forwards which was backed up by some penetrating drives from the backs.
The girls are now beginning to settle as a team and there were some excellent performances out on the pitch in the 2nd half. Lucy was ever present around the pitch with her tenacious tackling both in attack and defence. Abi graham chased every ball that was pumped up field, and the forwards in Amy, Bron, Katie, Maddy and Lucy were a force to be reckoned with.
Layla at scrum half gave the centres, led by Olivia and Yasmin plenty of opportunity to attack the Folkestone line with some excellent distribution and feed the backs to get them pushing the Folkestone line with some fast support on the wings from claire and Abi.
An excellent performance all round from the girls.
(match report courtesy of Trevor)
After a sluggish start the Basford girls were stung into life following a break from the folkestone backs which resulted in them going over to take the lead 5-0. It took a further 12 minutes of attacking play before Basford got the breakthrough when Abi Graham went over to level the scores 5-5. 2 further tries by Abi and Abbie Cook both of which were converted by Lucy wood gave the girls a half time lead of 19-5.
Early in the second half Lucy herself powered over the line to make it 24-5 and then successfully put away the conversion 26-5. The Basford girls started to increase the pressure on the Folkestone line which resulted in further tries for Olivia, Yasmin, abbie and Layla (2) with lucy successfully converting one try.
Despite the appalling weather conditions that caused both teams to make many handling errors, the Basford girls game in the second half was by far their best yet with some telling drives by the forwards which was backed up by some penetrating drives from the backs.
The girls are now beginning to settle as a team and there were some excellent performances out on the pitch in the 2nd half. Lucy was ever present around the pitch with her tenacious tackling both in attack and defence. Abi graham chased every ball that was pumped up field, and the forwards in Amy, Bron, Katie, Maddy and Lucy were a force to be reckoned with.
Layla at scrum half gave the centres, led by Olivia and Yasmin plenty of opportunity to attack the Folkestone line with some excellent distribution and feed the backs to get them pushing the Folkestone line with some fast support on the wings from claire and Abi.
An excellent performance all round from the girls.
(match report courtesy of Trevor)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Meet the Staff
Coaching & Exec Committee for 2008/9
Paula Bates U18 Manager & Exec 
Simon Hughes Exec Committee
Phil Robson Exec Committee / First aider
Darren Coomer Exec Committee / Kit &Travel
Tina Turner U15's Manager & Exec Committee
Peter Turner U15's Coach
Jeff Stembridge U15's Coach
Rebecca Burton- Howard (Jock) Welfare/First Aider 
Gavin Scott U18's Coach
Tony McClarnon U18's Coach (Awaiting Pic)
Tina McClarnon Exec Committee (Awiating Pic)
Paula Bates U18 Manager & Exec 
Simon Hughes Exec Committee
Phil Robson Exec Committee / First aider
Darren Coomer Exec Committee / Kit &Travel
Tina Turner U15's Manager & Exec Committee
Peter Turner U15's Coach
Jeff Stembridge U15's Coach
Rebecca Burton- Howard (Jock) Welfare/First Aider 
Gavin Scott U18's Coach
Tony McClarnon U18's Coach (Awaiting Pic)
Tina McClarnon Exec Committee (Awiating Pic)
Club Captains 2008/9
Olivia Stembridge
Sarah McIlwain -Bates
With last years team captains Megan & Natalie moving up age groups we are pleased to announce that for the coming season the U15's will be captained by Olivia Stembridge and the U18's by Sarah McIlwain-Bates (MCB)
Both girls have also been appointed as Essex County RFUW captains in their respective squads.
Congratulations to both girls and good luck for the coming season.
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