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• Registration Forms Update
• Web Sponsors
• Fantasy Rugby 2010
• Senior Tour 2011
• Sevens Tournaments 2011
• Club Disco & Internation Beer Pong Tournament
• Saracens Partnership
• Referee Course
• Coaching Courses
• Squads for Saturday
• 1st XV Match Report 11/9/2010 – Lost to Old Haberdashers 1st XV 21-11
• 2nd XV Match Report 11/9/2010 - Beat Bishop’s Stortford 4th XV 40-10

Senior Registration Forms

The registration form that the players were asked to complete was incorrect so please can you do the following.

All players must download & complete the registration form that is available here and if you are not already registered for league matches with the RFU, then download & complete the RFU Registration form that is here

Web Sponsors

You will start to notice adverts on the web site and in the emails that are sent out.  If you click through these and make a purchase the rugby club will be paid a commission from the store.  We are only going to try and put useful links in place so we aren’t covered in adverts but please use these links as they will be a good source of income for the rugby club.

All links are on this page

Currently we have signed up to Lovell Rugby, Compress Yourself and Kickback Sports (Use Code KBSSEP10 for 10% off non-sale items til midnight Thurs) for you to buy rugby equipment.

Maximuscle, Discount Supplements and Maxifuel (They are giving a massive 20% commission as a promotion until 1st October)

Sky, if you know anyone who wants to change to sky, get them to use our link on the website.

Fancydress.com & Fancy Dress outfitters just in case you need some

Cheshunt Fantasy Rugby 2010

Remember to complete your Fantasy Rugby Teams.  You can download an entry form from here or the page on the web site.

Teams need to be in to Linsell (James.Linsell@uk.tesco.com) by September 18th at the very latest.

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 repl to pay or register your interest.

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.

18th September – CHESHUNT RUGBY CLUB DISCO & INTERNATIONAL BEER PONG TOURNAMENT.

I have pleasure in announcing the 1st CRFC Annual International, well 2 Aussies and an Iranian,  Beer Pong Championship On Saturday.

It will consist of teams of 3.  All rules will be explained on the day.  If you have no friends (Jason Pearce) I will put you into a team. Entry will be £10 a head for seniors and £5 a head for juniors.  This should include for all beer during the competition. All comers are welcome.

This is followed by the 1st club disco for the season. Tickets £7.50 for Seniors £5.00 for Juniors. Please invite your friends along and Dave Lever will buy everyone a beer as he is celebrating his 32nd birthday on Saturday. So please make a few phone calls and invite your friends.

Festivities will start at about 5.30pm.

I look forward to seeing you all there,

Piggsy

Saracens Partnership

There will be a Saracens Partnership page on the web site in the next few days detailing the partnership and what we can get out of it.  This includes Coaching Courses, Guards of Honour for home matches and tournaments for the youth & mini sections.

In case you weren’t aware, Cheshunt can book tickets for Saracens Matches and for most games a level of Cashback is rewarded back to us.  Potentially its a really good source of income – the more we sell – the more cashback we make AND you dont pay the booking fee!  Any home match tickets can be purchased via CRFC with a strong emphasis on Bigger Target Matches.  Take a look at the Fixtures List and book your tickets via CRFC.

We are also working on a way to book & pay for your tickets via the web site and either collect them from the club or have them posted to you.  Watch this space.

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.

•       Tuesday 21st September                      Back to Basics – Developing key skills for the modern game – Matt Davies & Jan Bonney (FOC)

•       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.

It is VERY important that you use the links at the bottom of this email and subscribe to the Team News emails if you are a player.  You will NOT receive emails about training unless you are on the correct list, you’ll just get news and results.

Squads for Saturday – Club Disco After the Matches

1st XV Home v Barnet Elizabethans – 1pm meet, Club Shirt & Tie afterwards (The Squad will consist of 18 of the 19 on the list).

2nd XV Away v Harpended 3′s – 12pm meet – Location: Redbourn Lane, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2BA

3rd XV Away v Harrow 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 we will be doing 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.

Cheshunt 1st XV 21 – 11 Old Haberdashers 1st XV (By Piggsy)

On a sunny afternoon in front of  a decent crowd Cheshunt RFC opened their league campaign against Old Haberdashers, who were promoted last year.  Straight from the kick off Old haberdashers drove into the Cheshunt half and were awarded a penalty which they kicked to take an early 3 point lead.

Old Haberdashers continued to put Cheshunt under a lot of pressure and after some resolute defence the Old Haberdashers fly half was forced into an attempt at a drop goal. Cheshunt were slow to react as the ball bounced off the posts and into the Haberdashers wingers hands who ran in for a try which went unconverted for an 0 – 8 lead.

Cheshunt won the ball from the kick off and drove the ball into the Haberdashers 22 where they were awarded a penalty which was kicked by Tim Mcsherry to make the score 3 – 8.  The Haberdashers forwards continued to dominate at set pieces with Cheshunt on the back foot for a long period. Only last ditch defence kept Haberdashers from scoring. From the resulting 5 metre scum Old Haberdashers pushed the Cheshunt forwards over the line to score an easy try. Haberdashers missed the conversion to take an 3 – 13 lead.

With 5 minutes to go before half time Cheshunt started to play some open flowing rugby and mixed well between the forwards and backs to move the ball down towards Haberdashers line. Haberdashers again infringed to allow Mcsherry to slot the penalty to make it  6 – 13 at half time.

The second half started the way of the first with Haberdashers dominating the set pieces. They moved forward and scored in the 55th minute when the Haberdashers wing scored in the corner to make it 6 – 18 .  Cheshunt made 3 changes with Jason Pearce, Dean Gardener and Tom Mace coming off the bench. In the hot weather Old Haberdashers started to fade. Cheshunt defended well and started to dominate the loose play.

In the move of the match Cheshunt moved the ball down the right wing with Dean Gardener running 30m before getting tackled. The ball was recycled quickly and passed along the line to Dave Lever who easily beat his man to score in the corner. The conversion was missed to make the score 11-18 with 10 minutes to go.  Cheshunt again put the pressure on the Haberdashers line with no reward.  Haberdashers through their forwards again drove Cheshunt back towards their line. Once again they could not breach the Cheshunt defence. The Haberdashers Fly-half dropped a goal to make it 11-21.

Cheshunt again pushed at the Haberdashers line and when the final whistle went Haberdashers had deservedly won by 11 -21.

Cheshunt obviously need to work on a few areas but the defence and heart showed by the players will stand them in good stead for the rest of the season. Man of the match went to Dave Lever who scored Cheshunt’s only try but also showed he had learned to tackle during the summer.

Team.  O. Martinez, P.Barton, L. Chalk, S. Donnelly, G. Barton, D. Angell, A. Clarke, C. Jones, T. McSherry, G. Hayden, O.Amani R. Boulton, M. Corcoran(Captain), D Lever. Subs. D. Gardener, J. Pearce, T. Mace.

Cheshunt 2nd XV 40 – 10 Bishop’s Stortford 4th XV (By Batten)

A solid win for the 2nd XV at home on saturday built on a convincing pre-season that offers much promise for the forthcoming season. Saturdays team had an international flavour to it with the starting debuts of young ‘Hodgo’ at No.8 and the flame haired ‘Heinzy’ at inside centre. Saturday also saw the return to rugby of the perenially injured Jack Gutteridge and Scott Cummines, who both came through the game unscathed.

The day didn’t start too well when Aydan Duligall managed to pull his calf in the warm up after falling down a divot on the 2nd Team pitch.Cheshunt were slow in getting started against an experienced Stortford side who used all the tricks of the trade to disrupt the natural free flowing game that Cheshunt 2′s are known for. However, it didn’t take too long for for Cheshunt to get going and after some excellent pod work by the forwards ‘wiley old fox’ Jason Batten broke off of a maul and sprinted past the Stortford defence with great ease to then set up Tom Claridge who was ready and waiting on Batten’s shoulder. Reece Shoobridge stepped up with his reliable boot to put Cheshunt 7-0 up.

The second try followed a similar story with Jason Batten building on some excellent forward work to power his way through one Stortford defender and breeze past another before skillfully offloading to the supporting ‘Hodgo’ who ran clean through to score on his debut with Shoobridge duly converting to make the score 14-0. ‘Heinzy’ and his attacking runs soon paid dividends when he ran through the Stortford defence and drew in the remaining defence to set up the promising Jack Beckett to score. Shoobridge converted again and made it 21-0 to Cheshunt.

With Cheshunt’s backs now dominating the open pitch the creative Cheshunt were at their best and after some neat passing Jack Gutteridge showed he has gained some pace in his time off when he sprinted down the blindside wing past two Stortford players before setting up the supporting Tom Reynolds who pinned back his ears to run through and score with Shoobridge duly converting to make it 28-0.  A series of barnstorming runs was bound to take it’s toll, with the resulting tackles eventually forcing Linsell from the pitch just before half time with an injury to his ribs.

The second half started with Stortford making the most of their experience and playing downhill to score after a quick kick and run from their number 9 who got the best of a lucky bounce to score but failed to convert from what was an easy position to leave the score at 28-5. Cheshunt should have restored the gap after some good work to create space for Scott Cummines to run and draw the last defender but in amazement he managed to throw a weak forward pass to deny Charlie Porter from getting on the scoresheet.

Cheshunt soon restored the difference when Reece Shoobridge thrived on some stolen ball and ran blind to fool the Stortford defence before selling a brilliant dummy that saw the the opposition run off the pitch with a confused look on their face. He duly converted to bring the score to 35-5. The backs then exploited the gaps in defence when Heinzy threw a brilliant miss pass that fooled the defence to leave Charlie Porter to set up Aydan Duligall to power his way down the wing to carry on his impressive pre-season. Shoobridge missed the conversion after some suspect charging from Stortford. Stortford got a try back after a bobbling ball fooled Porter and he was tackled off of the ball but play was allowed to carry on and the conversion was duly missed to leave the final score on 40-10 to Cheshunt.

There were impressive perfromances from the two Aussies showing that they can plan rugby down there, old head Jason Batten showed his years of experience by being involved in every possible breakdown, Jack Beckett ran some impressive lines with pace and power and there was impressive tackling from young Archie Brixton and a rejuvenated Scott Cummines. Reece Shoobridge had another solid game at Scrum Half. However, man of the match had to go to a 17 year old debutant Ross Chamberlain who in his half hour on the pitch showed skill, power, strength and enthuisasm that any aspiring player should take note of! Chamberlain came on at flanker, not his normal position, and was always at the breakdown securing the ball, tackling the opposition or running through the opposition. After a very impressive 30 minutes it will be pleasing to see him soon get a full 80 minutes for the 2nd XV.

Team: Lewis, Lynn, Short, Linsell, Reynolds, Batten. Sr,Hounslow, Hodgo, Shoobridge, Claridge, Brixton, Heinzy, Beckett, Gutteridge, Porter, Spychal, Duligall. P, Duligall. A, Howard, Chamberlain, Wilcox, Cummines

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