Game on Sunday

girls just to let you know its a 2.00pm Kick Off at Newbold-on-Avon Rugby Club

Cars will be leaving from worcester at 12.oopm if you need a lift please get in contact with myself, steve or Jem before sunday!!

otherwise its a 1pm meet at newbold, please dont be late this is our first match of the season lets make a good impression ay!?

Also, all of you who havent filled a player registration form yet need to, i will have some with me on sunday but if you could let me know if you need one that way i will have enough for everyone. remember - no forms, no play!

See you sunday - Tolley


Tolley- 07875375654
Steve-07795244165
Jem- 07762278621

Directions
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Training (pre-season and in-season)

Training is continuing on Wednesday nights and we had 11 U18s this week,. These are great numbers and are allowing us to really move things along and skills are improving across the whole squad.

The first Sunday training is on 7 September and we will be on Cummings Farm, just not sure which pitch yet. It would be great to see everyone on both this Wednesday and next Sunday.

Steve

Summer training

Summer training is going well. We are moving things along but we need to see the rest of the players down if we are to keep up the pace. If you're not on holiday, we would like to see you down training. Numbers are OK, but we could do with a few more......

Steve

TDG

After the recent 3 day National Talent Development Camp at Hartpury College you will all be pleased to know that Sophie Watkiss has been selected for the RFUW 2008/09 Talent Development Group(TDG).

Sophie's displays for Worcester last year mark her out as a real prospect and we all look forward to her demonstrating further progress in the coming season.

Some people might think that as National Cup Winners & National 10's winners last season Worcester may have had more than one representative in the TDG squad however our success last year was down to quality coaching & the incredible hard work & committment of the players that took us unbeaten until our defeat in the semi-final of the 7's on the last day of the season. Rugby really is the ultimate team game and last year you girls showed week in week out the sort of qualities that make a stand out team. Let's do it again next season!

John

Loads of players available for the Bears this week for the friendly against the Army. The Army turned up with a weakened team and only started with 13 players. Other players turned up and as there were some injuries they were needed.

The Bears started well and several of the players we know had good games. Ale was running things in the centre and Jo Hart had another storming game in the full back and centres. Tolley was looking good in the forwards until she was forced off with an ankle problem. Weewee was having a reasonably quiet game on the wing until BJ from Camp Hill put her over for a try in the corner. She was unlucky not to score again a little while later when she was held up by the Army in the same corner. Jo put in a fantastic break from the centre to score. Coral put in a 50m run to score while Bean missed a tackle to allow the Army back into the game in the last few minutes. The final score was a Bears win of 22-10. Look at the Bears web site for a full report.

Steve

(All of the above is true except for any reference to Coral or Bean. They just turned up to watch... Good support girls..................)

Summer Training

Time to wake you all up again!

Pre-season fitness training is available to all of you from next Wednesday the 2cnd July. Training will start at 7.30pm on Cummings Field over the canal bridge. Bring with you Trainers and Boots.

See as many of you there as possible to get fit for another very successful season.

john

End of season silverware

HPAs

Many of you (most of you) haven't confirmed attendance at the HPAs yet. You will have received an email with a PayPal link. Do that and pay your £5 and that's good enough to be registered.

You won't get any more reminders from the RFUW, so take this opportunity.......

Steve

Rugby League (contd.)

Rhi is having a good time. The team is friendly, the training is good and all rugby related and I think she might even get a bit of game time against the RAF tomorrow. All 16+ players ought to have a think about doing it. It'll do wonders to keep up fitness levels across the summer. I know it's adult players (over 16 counts as adult in League) but trust me, you have the skills to keep up. The team is the Coventry Bears so have a look

I can take people from Bromsgrove if lifts are needed.

Steve

Summer Rugby League

I'm taking Weewee to Coventry on Thursday to look at League training. Anyone else interested, let me know.

Steve

REGIONAL CONFERENCE

Thanks for the girls who offered to help out at the regional conference this coming saturday but i have found out today that you will not now be required .

thanks keith

End of year lunch

Remember all, it's going to happen on Sunday June 8th. We will be meeting at the club (in the main car park) at 12:30 for 1:00pm. We'll take the opportunity to0 take some photos with trophies.

Steve

Seven's results

Not exactly what we wanted for the end of the season, but the day stayed dry and the rugby was of the highest quality.

We were drawn in smaller pool (one team short) and played Letchworth first and then Tynedale. We won both matches with some big scores and went into the quarter finals where we played our old rivals Burfield. A win there and we were into the semi final stages.

We were drawn against Exeter Saracens who we had never played before. They put 4 tries on us! Fair play, they were a quality team and played some superb 7s rugby. They had some great players and we struggled to keep up with them. They went on to contest the final against Wimbourne and our season finished on a lower note.

Having said that, we won a chunk of silverware this year. Cup winners, 10s winners and regional champions is a record second to none and Rich, Keith, Pete and I are justifiably proud of the team we have coached and seen growing in stature over the last two years. It's been a privilege and a pleasure to be involved in such a team.

Steve

Sevens squad update

Lydia is fit and will be joining the squad on Saturday. Good luck to all.

Steve

National Sevens

The National Sevens will take place at Leighton Buzzard RFC on Saturday. You should aim to be there at 9.30am. Early start I know. The Herts County Show is on the same day so the traffic might be a problem, so watch out.

The squad is:

Ale
Beth
Bean
Sophie W
Jade
Kim
Coral
Eliza
Weewee
Pikey
Ghostie.

There is one spare space that I will confirm shortly.

Steve

Last training sessions

As it is end of season, our final training session before the 7s will be Wednesday 21 May. So no training this Sunday.

Steve

West Midlands are regional champions

Congratulations are due to the West Midlands regional squad who had a great day on Sunday. Winning both pool matches (29-0 and 17-0) put them into the cup rounds.

A win against a tough East region side 5-0 put them into the final. A controversial match followed but the West Mids were victorious with a 7-0 score. The coaches handled their squads well and everyone played their part even though some were unable to play in the final. No matter, the squad performance got us to the final and helped us win.

Worcester regional players:

Siobhan Adams
Leanne Cook
Coral Hinton
Ale Lewis
Sarah Mimnagh
Kim Morris
Jade Newman
Anna Norris
Beth O'Brien
Katie Pittaway
Eliza Slinn
Lydia Thompson
Stacey Tolley
Rhiannon Watkins
Sophie Watkiss

Well done all.

National 10s review

Well, a good day at Lichfield for all. We had to work hard against all the opposition, Reading was a struggle and everyone had to put in some big games to come away with it. Final results were:

Worcester 49-0 Tynedale Panthers
Worcester 26-5 Darlington Mowden Park
Worcester 36-0 Letchworth (Coral's 50 yard run in!)
Worcester 12-0 Reading
Worcester 24--7 Wimbourne

Points for - 147, points against - 12.

Squad: Shove, Fidler, Coral, Ale, Jade, Kim, Nic, Pikey, Bean, Lize, Lydia, Tolley, Weewee, Sophie, Wino,

Steve

National 10s Winners!

Well done to everyone. Sorry I couldn't be there. I'll put a better report in when I get some more info. Key headlines I got off Keith was let in 2 tries, scored 23. Not bad....

Steve