Sunday training

Training this sunday is 10 till 12 on the cummins farm pitches. Parking could be a problem on sunday due to building work so come early if possible.

Training dates

Training will start at Worcester on Wednesday 22 August. Over the Cummings Field pitches. Not sure what the state of car parking will be like. I would suggest you park in the club car park and walk across.

Until that time Wednesday torture, sorry training with Pete will continue. The U19s and prospective HPA and TDg players would benefit in coming down.....

Steve

Current state of the fixtures. I will update it as and when I can. CTM stands for Club/Training Match and means I haven't filled it yet.

Steve

02/09/2007		Club Training
09/09/2007		Club training/County dev
16/09/2007		Club Training
23/09/2007		Comets (A)
30/09/2007		County trials/Training
07/10/2007		Regional 10s
14/10/2007		CTM
21/10/2007		County
28/10/2007		Regional 10s
04/11/2007		County
11/11/2007		Welwyn (H)
18/11/2007		County
25/11/2007		Kettering (H)
02/12/2007		County
09/12/2007		Lichfield Burton (A)
16/12/2009		Comets (H)
Christmas break
06/01/2008		Wimbourne (A)
13/01/2008		CTM
Sat 19 /1/08		CTM??
20/01/2008		Regional Trials
27/01/2008		Westcliffe (A)
03/02/2008		Regional Training
Sat 9/2/08		Regional Training
10/02/2008		Regional Match
17/02/2008		Welwyn (A)
24/02/2008		National Cup Rd 1/CTM
02/03/2008		Lichfield Burton (H)
09/03/2008		Regional Training
16/03/2008		Regional Match
23/03/2008		EASTER
30/03/2008		National Cup Rd 2/CTM
06/04/2008		Kettering (A)
13/04/2008		National Cup Finals/CTM
Sat 19/4/08		CTM??
20/04/2008		Regional Training
27/04/2008		Regional Training
04/05/2008		CTM
11/05/2008		Regional Festival
18/05/2008		CTM
25/05/2008		National 7s

Off-season training

Remember that Pete is offering SAQ and fitness training at Malvern on Wednesday nights. We had 9 or so players down and it was hard work. I am pleased to say that Allan, Keith and myself all joined in and there was some real effort going in.

Personally, I learned that I can't do the Ickey Shuffle and we will have to see what weeks of practice will deliver at the end of the season. Unfortunately I'm away working next week so you will have to wait for the coaches entertainment value.

Thanks to Pete and Mark for running the sessions. For those who weren't there, I suggest you make it down if you can. You will feel the benefit of it at the start of the next season!

Awards (and Gaelic Football)

Thanks to all the players who made it for the last training session. Gaelic football was fun (does anyone know the final score?) although at the end some of the numbers seemed a bit skewed. Not helped by Bean only running on to play occasionally (when her can was empty I guess).

Awards

Players player of the year - Bean
Most improved - Coral
Back of the year - Beth
Forward of the year - Eliza
Coaches player of the year - Pikey

The Mark Edwards Memorial Award was presented to Ale.

Our thanks to all the players who have contributed through the year. On behalf of the rest of the coaches I'd like to thank you all for the gifts. It's nice to know that you do appreciate what we do and for that to be reflected in the presents was a nice touch. Thanks.

As announced by Pete, next years coaches will be: Forwards - Pete (Boss forward coach) and Steve (junior assistant deputy trainee forwards coach). Backs - Rich and Keith.

In the meantime, fitness will be taken by Pete at Malvern on Wednesdays. Starting next week, kicking off at 7pm.

We will let you know when we start pre-season as we just need to confirm the new pitches are ready.

Cheers
Steve

Final training and awards evening

Remember, this Wednesday is the final training night of the 06/07 season. We'd like everyone to turn up if you can. Not heavy training but Beth has promised to bring along her Gaelic football (and know the rules) and if we could have as many hurling sticks and balls as possible, I'm sure we can have a go at that as well.

It's awards evening too. A series of awards are up for grabs (players player of the year, coaches player of the year etc.) and it would be nice to have a good turnout.

Steve

Final statistics for the season

Results are:

Played - 39
Won - 37

Drew - 0
Lost - 2

Points for - 1155
Points against - 145

Total number of players scored - 25
Top points scorer - Bean

Steve

Pics from the day

National 7s - great result

A good day for us. A very well done to the whole squad. Everybody played their part. Results were:- Worcester vs. Reading (24-17); Worcester vs. Letchworth (27-0); Worcester vs. Dorking (35-5 (although we thought it was 38-5)). Then into the knockout stages.

A good match against an excellent Westcliff side, who we'll hope to meet up with next season. A 31-14 win, but they made us work hard for it. Into the semi final against Paviours. Some strong defence against a skillful side gave us a 19-7 win. The final was against Mowden Park, who we have never played against before. We finally ran out 19-5 winners, but the scoreline makes it look easier than it actually was. We were pinned downhill in our own 22 for some time in the last 10 minutes and only some great defensive kicking from Bean and Beth got us out of trouble.

Squad: Ale, Alyssa, Bean, Beth, Coral, Kim, Nic, Pike, Shove, Sophie, Rhi and Rose.

Steve

Last training session of the season

The final training session will be held at the club, on Cummings Farm. It's not in half-term week, but the week after. It will be on 6 June, at 7:00pm as usual.

Also you might like to remember that Pete is running fitness sessions on Wednesday nights at Malvern. Ask him for details on 6 June.

Steve

Missing players

I invited as many players as I had email addresses for. If you found out that I've missed anyone, can you get them to email me please, and I'll invite them to join the blog?

Ta
Steve

So, what do you think?

How does this work for you? We can use it to exchange information from the coaches, swap photos or whatever. Question is, is it useful?

Letchworth use exactly this and Rosie's Dad, Ralph, mentioned it. It works well for Letchworth (in fact they have won an award for it), so credit to them.

Let me know what you think, and if I have forgotten to invite someone to join, which I'm sure I have, let me know and I can add them in.

Steve (the boss)

Relaxing in the sun

There were some breaks, so relaxation was the name of the game

Herts 7s

A great result for us. Nice sunny day, a hard match against Welwyn and a good result against Kettering.