Pre-season is creeping up fellas!! We are starting at the club on Thursday 2nd July 7pm sharp followed by a BBQ / curry night with Julie.

Then it is Tuesdays and Thursdays 7pm at various locations ( sheets givem out on 2nd July!!)

Regards

Simon Mason

The club lost a legend this week in Ray Nugent and all of our thoughts and prayers go out to the Nugent Family. They would like to let everyone know that Ray’s funeral will be at St. Annes Church in Rock Ferry Friday 8th May Noon.

If someone had told me last August, when we where having serious doubts about whether we could actually field a Colts side this season, that eight months later we would be beaten in the Halbro Colts Cup Final and would finish mid table in the Halbro Colts League Division ‘C’ we would have bitten their hand off.  

The boys were beaten yesterday in the Colts Cup Final (the Show Piece Game for the Halbro League) by Stoke RUFC, a side that fielded England age group and Gloucester Academy Fly Half Danny Roberts amongst others. Stoke won the Colts League ‘B’ Division at a canter and should have been in the ‘A’ Division, so to hold them at half-time to 7 - 0 and on the hour mark to be only 14 - 7 down was testament to the boys determination, to lose 34 - 7 was hard on the boys and didn’t reflect the game. Boys you can be proud of yourselves.

What everyone needs to know about the Colts this season is that we had the Youngest side in the League, 50% of the boys playing up a year and therefore still eligible to play Junior Colts again next season. We’ve been competitive in every game and won more games than we have lost in both the League and Cup. The Halbro League is the strongest Colts competition in the country and the one the RFU want to copy nationwide.

Congratulations Boys on tremendous season, it’s been great to watch.

Neil.

Congratulations to everyone in the 1st team squad who has contributed to a highly successful year. Including of course Ed Cooper, Taff Jones, Dave Buttery and our now Aussie legend Gaz Williams. It was just rewards for a bunch of players who showed a real desire to improve and work hard. We will need to continue our development through the off-season and then hit the next league running! Once we beat the then unbeaten Warrington in December I had every faith in our ability to win the league never mind gain promotion. The fact our points difference was so much higher than anyone else shows how we went out to play exciting rugby every Saturday!

Well done

Simon Mason

Director of Rugby