3rd XV Fixtures

    Results 19th/20th March, 2011

    Senior:

    Barnet Elizabethan 1st XV 24 – 13 Cheshunt 1st XV- other league results here
    Barnet Elizabethan 3rd XV 8 – 17 Cheshunt 3rd XV

    Youth:

    Cheshunt Under 13′s 27 – 7 Chess Valley Under 13′s (Cup)

    Results 12th/13th March, 2011

    Senior:

    Cheshunt 1st XV 16 – 21 Hitchin 1st XV- other league results here
    Hampstead 3rd XV 36 – 10 Cheshunt 2nd XV
    Cheshunt 3rd XV 8 – 12 Tring 4th XV

    Youth:

    London Scottish Under 13′s 0 – 65 Cheshunt Under 13′s

    Results 5th/6th March, 2011

    Senior:

    Cheshunt 1st XV 12 – 15 Old Ashmoleans 1st XV – other league results here
    Cheshunt 2nd XV 33 – 16 Finchley 2nd XV
    Chess Valley 2nd XV 5 – 22 Cheshunt 3rd XV

    Youth:

    Dartfordians Under 16′s 19 – 52 Cheshunt Under 16′s
    Hitchin Under 13′s 5 – 41 Cheshunt Under 13′s

    Results 19th/20th February, 2011

    Senior:

    Funchley 1st XV 3 – 20 Cheshunt 1st XV – other league results here
    Enfield Ignations 3rd XV 10 – 24 Cheshunt 2nd XV
    Cheshunt 3rd XV 49 – 10 St Albans 3rd XV

    Youth:

    Cheshunt Under 16′s 27-0 Ruislip Under 16′s

    Results 12th/13th February, 2011

    Seniors:

    Hitchin 1st XV 13 – 11 Cheshunt 1st XV – other league results here
    Hitchin 2nd XV 6 – 19 Cheshunt 2nd XV
    Tring 3rd XV 60 – 12 Cheshunt 3rd XV

    Youth:

    No Results Submitted

    Cheshunt 3rd XV 62 – 0 Hatfield 2nd XV – 25th September, 2010

    First off can I thank all the players that turned out for Cheshunt 3s against Hatfield.

    We had our first league win of the season with a convincing 62 -0.

    The team;

    Adam Spycal (A), Sean Callaghan, Tony Owen (A), Paul Duigall (A), Spencer Linsell, Connor Pearce(A), Ayden Duilgall (A), Sam Howard, Simon Embleton, Chubbs (A), Ginger (AA), Kevin Bundock (A), Dean, Sunny, Mark Lennon (A) Subs; Daren Masters (scrum half), Muzzy (Prop), Bruce (wing)

    We dominated the game from the first whistle; with in 3min we scored our first try. Ayden powered his way through the heart of the Hatfield defence beating several players to score under the posts.

    Soon after the pack secured another clean ball and let the backs have a run (very rear) Chubs with a pin point pass found Kevin, and with his quick hands released Ginger, even with a 2 man overlap and his skipper screaming for the ball he kicked the ball down the centre of the park hunted the ball down like a gazelle, 2 yards from the line and another kick he pounced on the ball for try no2.

    With Cheshunt’s confidence flying high I called Ayden over and instructed him to try a solo run at a pre planned angle my plan was executed with pint point accuracy, with a few hand offs several side steps Ayden scored his second try of the game. (I love it when a plan comes together)

    The half time whistle came with Cheshunt leading 21-0

    The second half started much like the first, Simon had a solid first half was replaced by Darren Masters and Bruce came on for Dean on the wing.

    A second try from ginner who again used the wind and with another chip and chase scored in the corner.  With a commanding lead the backs strung together several passes to set up Sunny Wayde to score his second try of the season.

    Connor Pearce with some clever thinking took a quick penalty and run straight through the opposition to score under the post, then the pack with some strong running from Paul and Tony Owen help set up Sean Callaghan to score his first of the season.

    Connor’s running was again to powerful and he went over to score what would have been his second but the ref did not see the ball grounded and Adam Spycal was first to react, and touched it down. (sorry Connor!!).  It was good to see Spencer again and hopefully it will become a regular addition to the squad.  Sam Howard had a good game and made way for Muzzy to see out the last 20 min.

    The 9th try was another team try started with the forwards and finished by Mark Lennon under the post after side stepping several of the Hatfield backs handing off the entire pack. (The conversion was missed due to me trying the miss the pigeon that landed on the cross bar just before the ball was struck).

    Ayden still on for the hat-trick finished of the game in style with yet another powerful run to score under the posts capping off a man of the match performance.

    Tries; Ayden  3, Ginger  2, Connor 1, Sunny 1, Sean  1, Mark  1, Adam  1 Total:10 – 55 points

    Conversations: 6 -  12 points (Mark L)

    Man of the match;  Ayden Duligall & Connor Pearce

    DOTD   Mark Lennon for missing his own conversation from under the post

    Assist of the match goes to the Hatfield physiotherapist.

    After a flat out run from Paul he reached an estimated speed of3mph, he took several players out before crashing to the ground, She (the physio) had to remind Paul where his crown jewels were kept and after rubbing his shoulder for a bit we helped him to his feet and he managed to play out the remaining 20 or without further complaint.

    See you all next week …………..

    By Mark Lennon (Anyone notice that Tries + Conversions doesn’t equal total points?)

    Cheshunt Rugby Email Newsletter September 22nd, 2010

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    Calling All Redundant Rugby Boots

    Has your owner left you in a dark cupboard or out in the cold unloved and in need of a good run out?  Well let your owners know there is a place for you and that place is Cheshunt Rugby Club.  If you would like your boots to reach their retirement age then please donate them to the kit shop.  Here they will be able to find a good home and once again enjoy wallowing in the mud.

    If you wish to donate your boots then please bring them to the kit shop, making sure they are looking their best.  Your boots will then be priced according to condition and all money made will go back into improving the club.

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    Magical Mystery Tour 2011

    Planning for the Magical Mystery Tour is now underway.  May 13-16 2011.  £100 deposit by 1st November or £50/month for 5 months from 1st October.

    See Dave Angell or Steve Hall or reply to the email for payment details or to register your interest.

    NO TOURISTS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 1ST NOVEMBER


    Sevens Tournaments 2011 – It is VERY important that we get this sorted early

    Planning for the 7′s Tournaments in 2011 is now underway and we are looking to enter the Amsterdam 7′s (21-22 May) and Bournemouth 7′s (28-29 May Bank Holiday).

    Entries for Bournemouth open on October 1st and we need to get in there quick.  It will probably be £65 for players and £95 for spectators again and we will need the money as soon as possible.  See Steve Hall or email Sevens@CheshuntRugby.co.uk

    There will also be STASH!!!  So look out for more info very soon.


    Saracens Partnership

    The next big target match for Saracens is October 16th Saracens vs Leinster @ Wembley – Show Starts 14.45.
    The DEADLINE for ordering tickets via CRFC is Monday 4th October so that we get the order placed and tickets back in time to distribute.
    Can you give money to your age group Team Coordinator or Coach or directly to Nikki Sirkett or Claire Barry who can both be found with the U11′s team on home match days & training on Thursdays & Sundays.
    Details I will need:
    Name & Postal Address
    Contact Number
    Age Group
    No of Adult Silver Tickets @ £15 each
    No of Child Silver Tickets @ £7.50 each
    No of Adult Red & Black Tickets @ £10 each
    No of Child Red & Black Tickets @ £5 each
    Payment Cheque made payable to CRFC or cash STRICTLY – Payment Up Front.

    Referee Course

    Simon Embleton is trying to organise an Entry Level (ELRA) Referee course at the club in late October/early November.  More info will follow and dates will go in the Referee section of the web site.   If you are interested in attending then please contact Simon on simon.embleton@edxlondon.com


    Coaching Courses

    Chesk the website for the latest coaching course updates.

    Cheshunt are down to host an evening Scrum/Lineout session at some point during the season.  There will also be various different sessions held at other clubs throughout the county, cost for the sessions are £5.  It was noted that the session with the highest attendance last season was the one at Cheshunt where we had a mix of players, coaches, refs and parents.  Contact Simon on simon.embleton@edxlondon.com if you are interested, more details will follow once dates are confirmed.

    Saracens Coaching Courses – The below sessions are open to all age group coaches from U9 – 1st XV and Saracens actively encourage you come along and share in the knowledge of their coaches. The aim of these courses is to provide local clubs with increased knowledge in order to raise standards & participation, as well as effectively utilising the assets of Saracens Coaching staff in supporting Saracens’ Partner clubs.

    •       Monday 1st November                          Scrummaging – Analysis Saracens Storm -  Cobus Visagie

    •       Tuesday 7th December                         Kicking -Game Changing & Tactic Defining – Dan Vickers

    •       Tuesday 18th January                           The Skills Jazz with Faz – Andy Farrell

    •       Sunday 20th February                          Saracens vs. Leeds – Observation & Analysis

    •       Tuesday 15th March                              Video Analysis – Matt Davies & Matt Wells

    •       Monday 11th April                                 Specialist session for Backs – Mark McCall

    •       Wednesday 1st June                            Preparing Players Preseason & In Season – Craig McFarlane & Scott Murphy

    Spaces are limited and are allocated on a first come first served basis. Prices for all courses are not yet known and times locations and dates are subject to change. We ask people to register an interest as soon as possible with Nikki Sirkett saracens@cheshuntrugby.co.uk and she will forward the requests onto Saracens.


    Squads for Saturday

    1st XV Away v Datchworth – 12:30pm meet, Club Shirt & Tie afterwards, White Shorts, Red Socks.

    2nd XV Home v Barnet Elizabethans 2′s – 1pm meet

    3rd XV Away v Hatfield 2′s – 1pm meet – Team announced via the web site later in the week.

    It is essential that everyone in the 1st’s & 2nd’s turns up to training on Thursday as there will be team run throughs.

    Anyone who is not selected but fit to play contact either James Batten on 07725596040 or Mark Lennon on 07956492610 as soon as possible to ensure you get a game this weekend.

    1st XV

    2nd XV
    Jack Girdlestone J Pearce
    Tim McSharry R Lynn
    Omid Amani G Lewis
    Sean Donnelly J Linsell
    Chris Jones Hodgo
    Dave Lever J Batten sr
    Danny McDonnell D Angell
    Lee Chalk B Hounslow
    Dean Gardener R Shoebridge
    Matt Corcoran L Starkey
    Gary Barton J Gutteridge
    Ollie Martinez T Claridge
    Joel Bailey S Cummines
    Alex Clark C Porter
    Darren Minos T Mace
    Geoff Hayden T Short
    Alan Thorne J Jaggs
    Ross Boulton J Beckett
    R Chamberlain

    Cheshunt 1st XV 38 – 8 Barnet Elizabethans 1st XV (By Steve Briggs)

    Available on the web site here

    Cheshunt welcomed Barnet in their second league game of the season.

    On a perfect day for rugby Cheshunt conceded an early penalty which Barnet converted to take a 0 – 3 lead. From the kick off Barnet won back the ball and drove back into the Cheshunt 22. Resolute defence soon turned into attack as Barnet spilled the ball. Dean Gardener picked up the loose ball and ran 20m before linking with the rest of the back row. Cheshunt interchanged passes between the backs and forwards moving quickly into the Barnet half. The move was stopped at the Barnet 22m line. Cheshunt quickly recycled the ball and passed along the line for Omid Amani to run in the try. This was converted by Tim McSherry for a 7 – 3 lead.

    Cheshunt seemed to gain confidence from the try and started to dominate the game.  The forwards drove the Barnet pack to the line where they were held up. From the resulting scrum Joel Bailey broke off before passing to Darren Minos to score. Tim

    McSherry again kicked the conversion to make it 14-3.

    Barnet finally won some ball and ran at the Cheshunt backs. A strong tackle from Ross Boulton dislodged the ball. Dave Lever picked up the loose ball and raced away from the defence to score. McSherry missed the conversion to make it 19 – 3.  Some indiscipline and back chat resulted in Barnet kicking for touch.  From the resulting line out Barnet moved the ball to drive over the line to make it 19 – 8 at half time.

    Cheshunt continued to dominate the second half. The forwards broke down the blindside with good support and handling, the move ended with Omid Amani running in his second try of the game. McSherry missed the conversion to make it 24 – 8.

    With both sides warned by the referee it was the Barnet hooker who infringed to get the first sin bin of the game. With a man extra Cheshunt continued to pressure the Barnet line. The Barnet fly half missed touch and kicked to Dave Lever on the 10 metre line. He returned the kick with interest to score a fine individual try which was converted by McSherry to make it 31 – 8.

    Cheshunt made 2 substitutions, bringing on Thorne and Chalk.  In their first involvement Chalk was alleged to have infringed and was sin binned for 10 minutes.

    Cheshunt absorbed the pressure until they were back to a fifteen men.  Cheshunt once again drove the Barnet forwards towards there line. The ball moved along the line to Dave Lever, who still had a lot to do.  He powered his way over the line for his hat trick.  McSherry converted for Cheshunt to run out winners 38 – 8.

    Cheshunt also picked up their first bonus point of the season by scoring more than 4 tries. It was a good team performance after the disappointment of last week.

    By Steve Briggs

    Cheshunt 2nd XV 29 – 17 Harpenden 3rd XV (By James Batten)

    Available on the web site here

    Cheshunt 2nd XV started off the new season with a solid win over and expierenced Harpenden side on Saturday. With injuries catching up with a few players there were some changes in the side with both Tom Mace and Dave Angell coming in after playing for the 1′s the previous week. The game did not start off well for Cheshunt with Harpenden using all of their experience to gain the advantage over Cheshunt. Harpenden were soon 8-0 up after scoring a penalty and soon following up with a wide backs move that left their speedy winger to outpace Charlie Porter. Soon after this Dave Angell had to come off after a 2-inch wound appeared on his head, which proceeded to gush blood over his face like a horror movie, but soon returned all stitched up and a fetching headband reminiscent of forwards from yesteryear.

    Cheshunt soon rallied round and after a barrage of forward pressure Jason Batten powered his way past two Harpenden players to score. Reece Shooobridge duly converted to bring the score back to 8-7. After this Harpenden took the upper hand till half time and proceeded to score two penalties and a suspect try that had as rather obvious knock on that the referee was unable to spot. With the score at 19-7 before half time tempers began to flair as Harpendens ‘old-school’ players began to make the most of the rules of rugby to gain any advantage they could. This finally came to a head with the two teams being slpit up and Hodgo shouting the Australian war cry of “come on then princess”.

    As soon as the second half started there was a clear difference from Cheshunt as they came out more aggresive and refused to let Harpenden out of their half and when they did clear their lines the new ‘slimline’ Tom Mace returned the ball with much haste, and carried on doing so thoughout the game to setup up numerous counter attacks. After a two forced changes due to injury, Heinzy and Connor Pearce came onto the pitch and added some clear straight and aggressive running to the Cheshunt game and this clearly affected the Harpenden play as they soon got scrappy and started giving away penalties. Shoobridge attempted a long range penalty to close the gap but narrowly missed and showed his dissapointment on the pitch but didn’t let this get him down as he soon found himself on the scoresheet after picking up the ball off of the back of a ruck, after the forwards gained about 40 yards with excellent mauling and rucking, and cooly added his first senior try to bring the score to 12-19.

    Cheshunt were now the dominant force in the game with Heinzy and Pearce both breaking the Harpenden lines everytime they ran with the ball. Heinzy, in particular, shone with his choice of line and power giving him, what appeared to be, an average gain of 50 yards evertime he got the ball. One of Heinzy’s powerful runs setup, what can only be described, as a classic team work try. After getting Cheshunt from the Cheshunt 22 to the Harpenden 22 the ball was quickly recycled and went through the hands to the left side of the pitch where Dave Angell found himself in space and passed to Scott Cummines and looped round to receive the return pass and score. Shoobridge duly converted to bring the scores level and then added a penalty to makes the score 22-19 to Cheshunt.

    Paul Duligall was brought on for Hodgo and became part of a trifecta of tackling force when he and Scott Cummines added to, an already impressive, Jack Gutteridge tackle and proceeded to leave the Harpenden scrum half off of the pitch for the remainder of the game. Ben Hounslow then got unfairly yellow carded after getting spear tackled by two Harpenden players and merely questioned what they thought they were doing. However, this didn’t unsettle him as he soon found himself on the scoresheet within seconds of his return to the pitch. Heinzy managed to steal the ball from a Harpenden play player running at full pace, something that those who were on the sidelines are still mesmerised by now, and ran half the pitch before passing to Ross Chamberlain who powered past one player before offloading to Hounslow to deservedly score. Shoobridge converted to bring the final score to 29-17 to Cheshunt.

    Yet again there were impressive performances from everyone for Cheshunt. However, special mentions need to go to Tom Mace for his excellent defensive work and counter attacking from full back. Heinzy for his forward runs that gained so much ground and helped setup numerous try scoring chances. Jason Batten, and the forwards in general, for their rucking, counter-rucking and running with ball in the second half. Dave Angell and Ben Housnlow for always being where the ball was and running forward and gaining at every chance and Charlie Porter for being a defensive rock with some hard tackling throughout the game. Man of the Match was Scott Cummines who, finally, lasted a whole 80 minutes and put in numerous ‘Boom’ tackles that no one believed he could do.

    Team: Lewis, Hounslow, Short, Hodgo, Reynolds, Batten. Sr, Chamberlain, Angell, Shoobridge, Starkey, Porter, Cummines, Beckett, Gutteridge, Mace, P. Duligall, C. Pearce, Heinzy

    By James Batten

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