Chiswick RFC Times

1ST XV SLUMP CONTINUES

CLUB XV DEFEAT OLD STREET IN ENTERTAINING MATCH

Welcome to Chiswick RFC Times issue 26.

This week we have match reports from the 2 matches played last weekend as well as league results and round ups and a photo special from the 1

st XV match at Hemel Hempstead RFC.

This Saturday the 1

st XV play in the League versus Harpenden RFC in a match that they just cannot afford to lose if they want

to match last season’s 3rd

place finish or better it. The loss at Hemel has made 2nd

place very hard to achieve but not impossible it just requires the 1

st XV to win every remaining match and ideally by the full five league points available.

For information on Harpenden RFC please visit: www.hrfc.com

The 2

nd XV have a massive game on the main pitch at home against Rosslyn Park IV, the result will decide who plays whom in

the semi finals of MMT 1, please come and show your support if you are not watching the 1st XV at Harpenden.

Information on Rosslyn Park IV can be found at: www.rosslynpark.co.uk The Stags have a MASSIVE MMT 6 quarter final match against Northolt RFC at home this Saturday, the Stags are in their first season and the quarter final is a big achievement but rookie skipper Kelvin Campbell hopes the side can go further as if they lose this Saturday then the Stags season and some careers could be over (Due to age not Kelvin’s wrath) Information on Northolt RFC can be found at: www.pitchero.com/clubs/northolt

ISSUE 26 - 29/2/2012

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FIXTURES 3/3/2012

1ST XV: AWAY HARPENDEN RFC RFU NW 2 230 PM KICK OFF

CLUB XV: HOME ROSSLYN PARK IV MMT 1 215 PM KICK OFF

STAGS: HOME NORTHOLT MMT 6 QTR FINAL 215PM KICK OFF

RESULTS 25/2/2012

1ST XV: HEMEL HEMPSTEAD 32 15 CHISWICK RFU NW 2

CLUB XV: CHISWICK XV 31 26 OLD STREETONIANS XV FRIENDLY

CONTACTS / CAPTAINS

Club Captain: Shane Donaldson

anseranser@aol.com 07775512028

1ST

XV Captain: Rowan Tonkin

r.tonkin@orbisglobal.com 07778152819

1

ST XV V.Capt: Simon Hallett

Simon.Hallett@bbc.co.uk 07787822793

2

ND XV Captain: N/A

Chiefs Captain: Rob Tillen

robtillen@googlemail.com

4th

XV Captain: Kelvin Campbell

kelvin@shm-ltd.co.uk 07706356422

Vets Captain: Ian King

ianpaulking@aol.com

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CLUB KIT & ATTIRE

Please read the Club rules (available on the website) to see what we expect to be worn on match days. Chiswick RFC plays in white shorts, these are available from Club Captain Shane Donaldson, but normal White Shorts is perfectly acceptable. Club Socks are also available from Shane as well as all other Club clothing, ties etc.

FOOD AVAILABLE AFTER TRAINING

Don’t forget food is available after training for £3, please make the effort if you have time to sit with fellow players and enjoy the food as well as the company. Big thanks to Si Bartley for being our resident chef.

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MAIN PITCH SCHEDULE – MARCH 2012

3

RD MARCH 2012: 2

ND XV VS ROSSLYN PARK IV MMT 1 215PM

10

TH MARCH 2012: 1

ST XV VS STEVENAGE TOWN RFU L&SE NW 2 215PM

17

TH MARCH 2012: 1

ST XV VS TABARD RFC RFU L&SE NW 2 215PM

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TH MARCH 2012: 2

ND XV VS TBC MMT 1 SEMI FINAL 215PM

31ST

MARCH 2012: 1ST

XV VS OLD HABERDASHERS RFU L&SE NW 2 230PM

CAPTAINS CURRY NIGHT – WEDNESDAY 14TH MARCH 2012

To Celebrate our season and to improve team bonding before the Business end of the season our respective Captains would like to host you for a night of curry and bonding. The date for this is Wednesday March 14

th, tickets are £10 and for this you get a plate of Curry and a free pint or bottle of

larger as well as the chance to bond with your side and other playing members of the Club. The Captains will be rounding up numbers this weekend so I hope all sides from the 1

st XV to The Vets can make an effort

and get down for what should be a fun night.

TOUR 2012 – MAJORCA, SPAIN Speak to Weeman for more details but it promises to be EPIC !

CHISWICK STIFLED BY LIVELY HEMEL HEMEL HEMPSTEAD RFC 32 CHISWICK RFC 15

REPORT BY DAVID LOVELL

On a spring-like day, which should have suited them, Chiswick were worn down, and finally out-played by a lively Hemel team, who kept their foot on the gas for seventy five minutes. Chiswick started as if to exact revenge for their one point home defeat by Hemel. Sam Hood, Jon Joyce and Rikki Darroch were all involved in an attack which ended with a successful penalty kick by Keith Luckman, after Sam Biss had got close to the line. Chiswick had first tried a quick tap, and Darroch had gone over the line, only for the referee to call them back.

Joyce did well to hang on to the restart kick under a three-man assault, and Luckman then did well to eschew a kick in favour of setting Josh Noble free in some space. Noble made mincemeat of the nearest Hemel men, and then chipped neatly over the others. The ball did not bounce kindly for him, but went straight into the hands of hooker Biss on the follow-up, and he zoomed in under the posts, giving Luckman an easier kick than the first. 10-0 after 4 minutes. Chiswick kept attacking, but had their first set-back when losing their own lineout, where Hood was, most unusually, beaten to the ( accurate ) throw by the excellent Hemel No.8. Their second, more serious setback occurred after a scintillating run by captain John Gibson, who released Adie Lewis on a run to the left corner. As Lewis plunged over for the try, the referee, claiming, apparently that he wasn’t quite sure about it, as the corner flag had been hit by something at about the same time, disallowed it.

Chiswick lost a bit more momentum when Luckman just failed with a kick after a high tackle brought an attack to a halt well into the home 22. The Hemel back row were increasingly successful in their attempts to disrupt the flow of balls from the Chiswick scrums, and then Chiswick were lucky that an unspotted forward pass did not bring greater reward for the home team. Luckily, Gibson was on hand to sort things out. Hemel then gained a penalty, and mauled well from the ensuing lineout. A player broke from the maul and raced for the corner. He dived over, apparently touching down on the sideline ( your reporter was very close ). The referee, a little further away, saw no reason, on this occasion, not to award the try. The kick failed. Hemel threw away a good chance, being penalised for feeding, on a rare excursion into the Chiswick 22. However, they produced another good maul which led to another unconverted try just before the interval. Right on the whistle, Lowe gave Lewis a pass near the line, but his grubber kick went astray and the chance had gone.

Chiswick were under pressure from the kick-off, as Hemel stormed downfield and downwind, and a knock-on, followed by an inability to stop a run by the Hemel No.5, led to a converted try by the home team. Jon Joyce had to retire injured, and then an injury to Gibson led to a reorganisation of the Chiswick backs. With the forced changes, and a couple of other niggles being just about coped with, the ball was very much in the home court. They had a successful penalty kick, and kept up the pressure with good long touch kicks. Some ineffectual tackling allowed the lively Hemel left winger to get an inside pass away as he was driven into touch, and that was another home try, which was well converted. The next home attack led to their winger apparently hitting the flag as he went over the try line, and the referee did not award a try. Luckman, no doubt still smarting from last week’s charge down, then produced an excellent drop-out, caught cleanly by sub Brinley Price, who combined well with sub Ben Catliff before a forward pass halted the move. Chiswick’s handling got more urgent, but a spate of injuries didn’t help the minor revival. A knock-on gave Hemel a good field position, which they exploited with some careful passing, their No.12 finally scoring near the corner, the kick failing. With Chiswick finally reduced by injuries to fourteen, they produced their best move of the match, with Lewis, Darroch, Lowe, Luckman, Noble, Price, and Rory Fletcher all handling well before Tom Adams put Noble clear down the right wing, to cut inside the last defender to score. Luckman’s kick hit the post. Chiswick team :- Donaldson, Biss, Joubert ( Carroll ), Hood, Joyce ( Price ), Adams, Darroch, Fletcher, Lowe, Luckman, Lewis, Gibson ( Catliff ), Noble, Small, Perfect

RFU LONDON & SOUTH EAST NORTH WEST 2 FIXTURES 3/3/2012 HARPENDEN V CHISWICK

FULLARIANS V WELWYN

TABARD V HEMEL HEMPSTEAD

ST ALBANS V IMPERIAL MEDICS

OLD HABERDASHERS V UCS OLD BOYS

STEVENAGE V GRASSHOPPERS

CLUB XV SHOW SKILLS TO OVERCOME OLD STREET CHISWICK CLUB XV 31 OLD STREETONIANS CLUB XV 26

REPORT BY SIMON “BIG CHIEF”BARTLEY

With Chiswick needing to keep momentum going in the Merit Table, the Chiswick Club side pulled off a hard fought victory which should have come much easier. Old Streetonians who hosted us at the start of the season came for the return leg of friendliest, unfortunately a few players short so Olli Vivian and Pat Sloane stepped up and played for the opposition allowing for a very competitive game. Streets opened the scoring thanks to some sloppy defence from Chiswick; this was however closely followed by a Chiswick try through a well worked backs move allowing Greg Talbot to cross the line. The rest of the first half was very much back and forth between the two 22's to leave the score at five all at half time. The second half was a higher scoring 40 minutes of rugby. Steve Davis opened the Chiswick second half scoring followed by two converted from Streets. Dave Thornton then crossed the line with a 40 metre run to finish under the posts allowing him to convert his own try. Chiswick’s fourth try came from a break down the wing from James Edgson, again coming around and under the post which gave Thornton his second conversion of the afternoon. Streets final score came with about 20 minutes left on the clock, but it was Chiswick who sealed a hard fought and close match with a try from Scrum Half Andy Higgins which was again converted by Dave Thornton who was declared man of the match. This season is rapidly drawing to close gentlemen and we are getting to the business end, all three sides in Merit Table are headed for playoffs, with the stags starting their campaign for the final first with a quarter final match. The Chiefs are in a playoff position but the ideal would be a home playoff like last season. So the next two merit table games are vital in getting us that home advantage, the next two games are where the Chiefs step up to the mark and take two big scalps on the way to the final. The way in which we finish our season is up to us now. We can step up the mark and play for each other and progress further, or we don’t and we fail. There have been weeks where we have found it easy to field four competitive sides and others where we have struggled. In our first season with four sides we have done amazingly well, there are other clubs around us who are struggling and even folding sides so for us to be expanding is nothing short of amazing and its all down to you guys the players. So in these last few weeks it down to all of us to keep that momentum going and push Chiswick RFC further.

CHISWICK RFC TAG & MINI RUGBY

AGES 5 – 11

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LEAGUE ROUND UP

RFU LONDON 2 NW RESULTS 25/2/2012

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD 32 15 CHISWICK RFC

HARPENDEN 19 10 IMPERIAL MEDICS

OLD HABERDASHERS 40 0 WELWYN

ST ALBANS 45 22 FULLARIANS

STEVENAGE 20 12 UCS OLD BOYS

TABARD 39 15 GRASSHOPPERS

MIDDLESEX MERIT TABLE 1 RESULTS 25/2/2012

ROSSLYN PARK IV 43 24 IMPERIAL COLLEGE OB

RFU LONDON 2 NW LEAGUE TABLE NO TEAM PLD W L D F A DIFF BP PTS

1 OLD HABERDASHERS - - - 17 16 1 0 497 230 267 8 72 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -- - - - - -- 2 STEVENAGE TOWN - - - 17 13 4 0 504 246 258 15 67 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- -- 3 ST ALBANS - - - 17 12 5 0 498 311 187 11 59

4 HEMEL HEMPSTEAD ↑ 17 11 6 0 408 387 21 11 55

5 CHISWICK RFC ↓ 16 10 5 1 362 349 13 8 50

6 TABARD RFC - - - 16 8 7 1 346 282 64 12 47

7 IMPERIAL MEDICS RFC - - - 17 6 11 0 352 437 -85 11 35

8 UCS OLD BOYS - - - 17 5 11 1 323 457 -134 12 34

9 GRASHOPPERS - - - 17 4 11 2 366 442 -76 7 27

10 FULLARIANS - - - 17 5 12 0 290 416 -126 5 25 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - --- -- 11 HARPENDEN RFC - - - 17 5 12 0 278 467 -189 4 24

12 WELWYN RFC - - - 17 2 12 3 283 483 -200 6 20

MIDDLESEX MERIT TABLE 1 NO TEAM PLD W L D F A DIFF BP - PTS PTS

1 EALING COUGARS - - - 10 7 2 1 231 160 71 2 -2 50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 CHISWICK RFC 2

ND XV - - - 10 6 4 0 240 167 73 5 0 49

3 ROSSLYN PARK IV ↑ 10 6 4 0 226 254 -28 1 -2 43

4 IMPERIAL COLLEGE OB ↑ 9 5 4 0 289 206 83 4 0 42

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

5 BLACK BAA BAA’S ↓ 10 5 4 1 174 249 -75 0 2 42

6 CS RUGBY 1863 II ↓ 10 3 6 1 254 238 16 6 0 40

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 STAINES RFC II - - - 10 1 8 1 115 255 -140 3 -8 21

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LEAGUE ROUND UP

MIDDLESEX MERIT TABLE 4 RESULTS 25/2/2012 NO MATCHES PLAYED

MIDDLESEX MERIT TABLE 6 RESULTS 18/2/2012

LONDON FRENCH II 27 0 CSSC BAA BAAS

BULLDOGS 0 25 BRITISH AIRWAYS AWO

MIDDLESEX MERIT TABLE 6 QUARTER FINAL DRAW – 3/3/2012 CHISWICK STAGS VS NORTHOLT RFC

HAC III VS BEDFONT SPORTS

BRITISH AIRWAYS VS LONDON FRENCH II

UXBRIDGE II VS SPARTANS

MIDDLESEX MERIT TABLE 4 NO TEAM PLD W L D F A DIFF BP -PTS PTS

1 L.CORNISH CHOUGHS - - - 11 10 1 0 644 59 585 10 0 72 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 WASPS II - - - 13 8 5 0 466 315 151 6 0 64

3 CHISWICK RFC CHIEFS - - - 12 8 4 0 303 215 88 3 0 59

4 GWR ↑ 13 7 6 0 237 375 -138 2 -2 54

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 WEST LONDON II - - - 12 6 6 0 226 322 -96 1 0 49

6 LONDON WELSH OCCIES ↓ 12 4 7 1 262 340 -78 5 0 47

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 HARINGAY II - - - 13 3 10 0 180 614 -434 4 0 42

8 STAINES III - - - 12 2 9 1 233 311 -78 5 -4 35

MIDDLESEX MERIT TABLE 6

NO TEAM PLD W L D F A DIFF BP -PTS PTS

1 HAC III - - - 10 9 1 0 359 99 260 5 -1 60 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

2 BRITISH AIRWAYS ↑ 10 7 3 0 330 164 166 5 0 53

3 CHISWICK STAGS - - - 10 7 3 0 225 143 82 2 0 50

4 UXBRIDGE II - - - 10 6 4 0 224 179 45 5 0 49

5 SPARTANS ↓ 10 6 3 1 167 184 17 2 0 48

6 NORTHOLT - - - 10 5 5 0 243 187 56 5 0 45

7 LONDON FRENCH II ↑ 10 4 6 0 191 177 14 6 0 42

8 BEDFONT SPORTS ↓ 10 3 7 0 128 188 -60 4 0 36

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9 FELTHAM III - - - 10 3 6 1 126 305 -179 2 -2 34

10 BULLDOGS - - - 9 3 6 0 123 283 -160 2 -2 28

11 CSSC BAA BAAS - - - 9 1 8 0 82 272 -190 2 -2 22 \

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PHOTOS FROM HEMEL HEMPSTEAD V CHISWICK

MATT SMALL IN FULL FLIGHT

RIKKI DARROCH LEADS THE CHARGE

ADY LEWIS ON THE ATTACK

JON JOYCE WINS THE LINEOUT

RORY FLETCHER KEEPS THE BALL

ALIVE

JOSH NOBLE SCORES CHISWICKS SECOND TRY