Kettering 17th February 2018

The Buzzards

Official Match Day Programme Midlands Division 1 East Season 2017/18

Arran Perry 28th October 2017 v Kettering

Kettering RFC Saturday 17th February, 2018 Kick off 2:15pm

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Midlands Division 1 East

Leighton Buzzard RFC v Kettering RFC 17th February 2018 Kick Off 2:15pm Welcome one and all to Wright’s Meadow for the latest round of Midlands 1 East. A warm welcome to all the players, guests and supporters from Kettering who have made the trip down this afternoon. We hope you enjoy your day.

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Congratulations to the Under 15 squad who last week qualified for the Beds cup final by beating Luton. The new Junior academy system seems to be bedding in nicely and the results can be seen on the pitch where we are very competitive against sides that have, in the past, beaten us well. Also the results off the pitch look good where the numbers in the age groups are on the rise. Well done to all the coaches and players.

Next week will see the 1st xv back in cup action in the Senior Beds cup against Biggleswade. Supporters welcome. For those of you unable to make the trek across Bedfordshire to cheer on the boys the 6 Nations will again be shown at the club. All welcome Enjoy your day and enjoy your rugby here at Leighton Buzzard Page 3 of 40

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Round Up - Midlands Division 1 East Saturday 10th February, 2018 Kettering 36 - 10 Peterborough

Saturday 3 February, 2018 rd

Bedford Athletic Bugbrooke Paviors Peterborough Syston Wellingborough

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Melton Mowbray Market Rasen & Louth Oundle Old Northamptonians Northampton Old Scouts Kettering

Buzzards Secure Vital Away Victory Huntingdon 18 - 25 Leighton Buzzard Leighton Buzzard secured their first league away win of the season in a closely fought game at Huntingdon. As with the previous week, the victory was based on a solid scrum, good game management and committed defence.

On a dry but cold afternoon with almost no breeze, Leighton kicked off with the advantage of the slight slope. Leighton started well with the majority of the initial possession, but rarely threatened the line, although an Ollie Taylor penalty gave Buzzards a three point Jordan Cummins lead after nine minutes. Huntingdon equalised with a penalty midway through the half.

As the half developed, the Buzzard scrum with Jon Henkes solid at tight head, was beginning to take control over their larger opponents and were to win a number of scrums against the head throughout the afternoon. Fly–half Jack Whitehouse was giving Buzzard territory with his long angled kicks but it was two moments of individual brilliance in three minutes Jack Whitehouse Page 5 of 40

from Whitehouse that gave Leighton a significant lead. After thirty-two minutes he jinked his way through the home side defence to score under the posts – shortly afterwards he nearly repeated the trick but, when tackled just short, passed to James Brett to score. There Jack Whitehouse was more than a hint of a forward pass in the second try, although the referee was well- positioned with a clear view and awarded the try. Both tries were converted by Ollie Taylor to give Leighton a 17-3 lead.

Huntingdon quickly responded with a try – driving over from a five metre lineout – the successful conversion making the halftime score 17-10.

A Huntingdon penalty early in the second half had James Brett cut the Buzzard lead to four points. However when a Buzzard attack was stopped illegally in the Huntingdon twenty-two, the referee showed the home side’s left winger a yellow card. The penalty gave Ollie Taylor the opportunity to restore Leighton’s seven point lead and numerical advantage gave Jack Whitehouse the Greg Falcon opportunity to kick long into the space vacated by the absent winger. As pressure grew from territory, the Buzzard pack drove over with Greg Falcon scoring Leighton’s third try. The difficult conversion was missed but the lead was now 25-13.

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with their captain particularly prominent, continued to be a good source of possession. With Buzzards infringing, when caught in possession trying to run the ball from their own half, the home side kicked for the corner. With the Buzzard line under pressure, Ash Walsh was shown a yellow card. Once again the home side kicked for the corner and almost inevitably drove over. With the conversion missed, Leighton led 25-18 with twelve minutes left.

Head Coach Tom Mowbray commented : “We’ve been working so hard on our game management over the last few weeks and we put in a superb performance to come away with the win. A special mention has to go to Jack Whitehouse for how he controlled the game.

Also, Reece Harris-Smith put in a man mountain effort in defence and attack. The boys need a well deserved rest this week and we look forward to welcoming Kettering to Wright’s Meadow on the 17th February” Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Syston Bedford Athletic Kettering Paviors Peterborough Old Northamptonians Oundle Leighton Buzzard Melton Mowbray Bugbrooke Northampton Old Scouts Wellingborough Huntingdon & District Market Rasen & Louth

P 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19

W 18 17 15 14 12 12 9 7 6 6 6 5 4 0

D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0

L 1 2 4 5 7 6 10 12 13 13 13 12 14 19

PF 709 973 624 724 571 496 545 380 323 333 305 313 239 206

PA 251 244 241 303 363 371 511 596 718 719 537 433 641 813

+/458 729 383 12 208 125 34 -216 -395 -386 -232 -120 -402 -607

TB 15 14 13 12 11 7 9 5 6 4 4 3 2 0

LB Pts 0 87 1 83 2 75 3 71 5 64 2 59 4 49 2 35 2 32 3 31 2 30 1 28 3 23 4 4

League standings at 10th February 2018

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Leighton Buzzard Scorers 2017 - 2018 Midlands 1 & Bedfordshire Senior Cup Name

Tries

Darren Braybrook 4 Jordan Marshall 0 Arran Perry 8 Ben Beaumont 7 Euan Irwin 7 Mike Lynch 6 Ollie Taylor 1 Jack Whitehouse 4 Jacob Barker 3 James Brett 3 Tom Mowbray 3 Ashley Walsh 2 Jack Kempster 2 Jacob Murtagh 2 Matt Stacey 2 Mike Robert 2 Raef Braithwaite 2 Reece Harris-Smith 2 Ben Johnson 1 Ed Wiggins 1 Gerard Collins 1 Greg Falcon 1 James Ward 1 Jordan Cummins 1 Owen Forsythe 1 Richie Graydon 1 TimothĂŠe Vampouille 1 Wills Messum 1 Lee Walker 0 TOTALS 70 Points 350 % of Total Points 73

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17 19 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 41 82 17

8 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 45 9

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Total Pts % Club Pts 78 44 40 35 35 30 25 20 15 15 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 477 477 100

16 9 8 7 7 6 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100

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Received Contributions An elderly country preacher had a teenage son, and it was time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men, the boy didn’t really know what he wanted to do, and he didn’t seem too concerned about it.

One day, while his boy was off at school, his father decided to try an experiment. He went into the boy’s room and placed on his study table four objects: A bible, a silver dollar, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a Playboy magazine.

‘I’ll just hide behind the door, the preacher said to himself, ‘and when he comes home from school this afternoon, I’ll see which object he picks up.’

‘If it’s the Bible, he’s going to be a preacher like me, and what a blessing that would be! ‘If he picks up the dollar, he’s going to be a businessman, and that would be okay, too.

‘But, if he picks up the bottle, he’s going to be a no-good drunkard, and Lord, what a shame that would be. ‘And worst of all, if he picks up that magazine, he’s going to be a skirt-chasing bum.’

The old man waited anxiously, and soon heard his son’s footsteps as he entered the house whistling and heading for his room.

The boy tossed his books on the bed, and as he turned to leave the room, he spotted the objects on the table. With curiosity in his eye, he walked over to inspect them.

First, he picked up the Bible and placed it under his arm.

Then, he picked up the Silver Dollar and dropped into his pocket.

Next, he uncorked the bottle and took a big slurp while he admired this month’s centerfold.

‘Lord have mercy,’ the old preacher whispered in horror, ‘He’s going to be the next president!’

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Midlands Division Round Up Who’s doing what in the leagues around us Team 11 12 13 14

Lichfield Longton Newbold on Avon Old Halesonians

Midlands Premier

P 19 18 19 19

W 5 5 4 0

D 0 0 0 0

L 14 13 15 19

PF 404 330 370 175

PA 635 672 600 1141

+/- TB -231 10 -342 7 -230 4 -966 1

LB Pts 5 35 1 28 5 25 2 3

Newbold promoted at the end of last season would appear to candidates to join us next season.

Midlands 1 West - Lutterworth (with 3 games in hand) and Rugby Lions are sitting mid table and unlikely to directly impact M1E(S) Midlands 2 East (South) 1 2 3 4

Team

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W

D

L

PF

PA

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TB

LB Pts

Oadby Wyggestonians Market Harborough Luton Old Laurentians

15 15 15 15

13 12 12 11

0 0 0 0

2 3 3 4

567 577 578 453

214 235 206 273

353 342 372 180

13 10 11 12

1 3 1 1

PA

66 61 60 57

Oadby Wygges are going strong and have already beaten 2nd & 3rd placed sides away this season. In the next month the top 3 sides all meet again.

Any one of the top three sides could make it into Midlands 1 Midlands 3 East (South) Team 6 Stockwood Park 10 Dunstablians

P

W

D

L

PF

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TB

LB Pts

15 15

8 4

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7 340 298 42 11 214 361 -147

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3 2

40 20

Local East Midlands sides Dunstablians are having a poor season and are 3rd from the bottom in M3E(S). Stockwood Park are doing better with more wins than losses.

London & SE Premier

Team P W D L PF PA +/- TB LB Pts 14 Towcestrians 19 2 1 16 301 787 -486 5 1 16 Towcestrians moved up into National League 3 Midlands from SW1E at the start of 2016/17 season finishing 10th at season’s end. At the start of this season transferring to London & SE Premier.

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1st Team Appearances 2017 - 2018 Name Jack Whitehouse Darren Braybrooke Jacob Barker Mike Robert Mike Lynch Arran Perry Owen Forsyth Oliver Taylor James Ward Reece Harris-Smith Jacob Murtagh James Brett Dan Baroux Jordan Marshall Ben Beaumont Richard Graydon Kristian Hastings Tom Mowbray Ashley Walsh Euan Irwin Billy Nash Greg Falcon Jordan Cummins Paul Gravestock Jack Kempster Wills Messum

Appearances All League 19 19 18 17 18 17 17 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 14 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 11 10 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 8 9 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6

Appearances Name All League Ed Wiggins 5 5 Keiran Turney 5 4 John Henkes 4 4 Luke Stanbridge 4 4 Matt Stacey 4 3 Elliot Swann 3 3 Harry Cootes 3 3 Gerard Collins 3 2 Michael Carter 2 2 Paul Greenway 2 2 Raef Braithwaite 2 2 Ryan Tift 2 2 Tom Byard 2 2 Ben Johnson 2 1 TimothĂŠe Vanpouille 2 1 Adam Stacey 1 1 Ben Silvester 1 1 Ed Taylor 1 1 James Alred 1 1 James Pratt 1 1 Lee Walker 1 1 Patrick Fraser 1 1 Ryan Eaton 1 1 Jake Wheeler 1 0 Ross Bevan 1 0

Those names in grey are in a photo finish place.

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Received Contributions The Drunk guy at a funfair!

A man in a state of excessive inebriation rolled up at a fairground rifle range booth and threw down the necessary money.

The booth operator at first refused to let him have a turn considering that his inebriated state would endanger the public. But the drunk insisted and was given a gun.

He aimed unsteadily in the general direction of the target and after trying to focus, pulled the trigger three times. The booth owner, on inspecting the target, was astonished to see that he had scored three bullseyes.

The star prize for the evening was a large set of glassware, but the showman was certain that the drunk wasn't aware of what he had done, and gave him a consolation prize instead, a turtle. The drunk wandered off into the crowd.

An hour or so later he came back, even more drunk than before. Once again the showman demurred, but once again the drunk insisted, and once more scored three bullseyes and was given another turtle.

Eventually the drunk rolled up again and insisted on a third attempt. Once more he picked up the rifle, waved it around in the general direction of the target, and pulled the trigger three times. Once more he had scored three bull's eyes. But this time there was an onlooker with good eyesight.

"That's fantastic," the man said. "Hasn't he scored three bulls?"

The showman, cursing his luck, made a play of going over to the target and inspecting it closely. "Yes Sir!" he announced to the crowd. "This is fantastic! Congratulations, sir, you have won tonight's Star Prize, this magnificent 68-piece set of glassware."

"I don't need any b----y glasses," the drunk replied. "just give me another one of those crusty meat pies."

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Congratulations to Jacob Murtagh and James Brett for their East Midlands U20 winning performance on Sunday, 11th February against Warwickshire. Final score East Midlands 40 - 13 Warwickshire Page 24 of 40

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John McDougal Points Of Law Grounding the Ball & Standing Up In The Scrum What Constitutes Grounding?

There is little doubt that TMO got the decision on the Welsh “try” v England wrong. People often say that the player scoring the try needs to be in control and exert downward pressure. Just touching the ball on the ground is sufficient pressure and there is no mention of control in the laws. In fact the ball can be grounded not just by hand(s) or arm(s) but also by any part of the body from neck to waist, which rather dispels the myth of control.

Standing Up In The Scrum Collapsing scrums is often one of the most difficult decisions for a referee.

At high level you often see referees giving free kicks at the scrum; this is often because they are not sure so don’t want to give a potentially match deciding penalty. I used to coach referees to do this if they weren’t sure.

A free kick (for example shoulders below hips) restarts the game quickly.

What I find frustrating is referees failing to penalise standing up in the scrum. If you are being pushed backward it is the safest way to disrupt the drive. It normally happens when the weaker scrum has won its own ball but is then being pushed off it. If the scrum is stationary and both front rows stand up that is normally just pressure, so re-scrum. But if it is moving then standing up is almost always deliberate and is easy to spot and penalise.

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Time Gone By - Midlands 1 East The last encounter with Kettering was last year on the 28th October at Kettering; Buzzards lost 48 - 0. Buzzards were soon 7 - nil down, then penalised (10 - 0 down), James Ward went of injured and Buzzards got a yellow card. After 19 minutes were 17 - 0 adrift, at 30 minutes 22 - 0. In the second half Buzzards competitive and defence more solid until the 21st minute when a long pass by Buzzards was intercepted for a try under the posts (27 - 0). With 10 minutes left, a poorly dealt with kick favoured Kettering (34 - 0). Buzzards didn’t give up and a fine break by Reece HarrisSmith deep into Kettering’s half fizzled out when the ball was lost and Kettering scored (41 - 0). Loss of the ball in contact enabled Kettering to score their 7th try of the day, final score 48 - 0.

Season 2016/17: 11th March 2017 Kettering 68 - 8 Buzzards, 19th November 2016 Buzzards 3 - 42 Kettering Midlands 1 East 2016 - 2017 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Team Newbold on Avon Kettering Old Northamptonians Lutterworth Huntingdon & District Melton Mowbray Market Rasen & Louth Paviors Bugbrooke Leighton Buzzard Northampton Old Scouts Wellingborough Dronfield Ilkeston *

P 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26

W D L PF PA 23 1 2 931 390 22 0 4 1010 326 19 0 7 817 483 16 0 10 624 580 16 0 10 667 588 13 0 13 582 551 12 0 14 582 556 11 1 14 578 584 10 0 16 498 430 11 1 14 579 686 12 0 14 508 665 11 1 14 525 660 3 0 23 363 784 1 0 25 286 1267

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+/- TB LB Pts 541 20 1 115 684 20 3 111 334 19 4 99 44 13 0 77 79 9 3 76 31 13 2 67 26 8 4 60 -6 10 3 59 68 8 11 59 -107 9 3 58 -157 8 1 57 -135 8 2 56 -421 1 8 21 -981 0 2 1

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Dickie’s Drivel Why Continental Props are more intelligent… …than Home Nations Props - or why Home Nations Props are even less intelligent than Continental ones?!

Watching Italy v England earlier in the month got me thinking why front rows always engage to the left in the scrum.

Steve, the Dark One, subsequently, both kindly and correctly, informed me of why this is, and the bio-mechanics that predicate it, all of which made absolute sense, but, as I said to Donald Trump only recently, let’s not allow the facts get in the way of a good story.

Therefore, the Dickie take on it is that in the UK we drive on the left and it would confuse Props if they had to engage on the left in the scrum and drive on the right.

However, I would give them some credit, as at least it is them, and not the rest of the forwards, that have to make the engagement in the scrum (and rarely get it wrong). Props, by necessity, are, thus, the most intelligent of all the forwards.

In coming to this conclusion, I reference Andy Powell, the Welsh back row, who was famously arrested for driving a golf cart down the M4. This was obviously an act of extreme stupidity but I note that he was driving on the hard shoulder.

Of all the four lanes, or channels, he could have engaged with, he did so with the one at the most extreme left. By doing so, he proved himself to be a frustrated loose-head but obviously not clever enough to be one!

Had he wanted to be a tight-head, he would have been driving in the middle lane!

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Dickie’s Drivelling Continued Which is why, because they have to engage on the left but drive on the right, French and Italian Props are more intelligent than those from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

So, would it have been different had Rugby been invented on the Continent? Of course, this is a totally absurd notion, as God, being an Englishman, created Britain, so that we could invent all the meaningful team sports. God even gave us the arrogance to create a benign enough empire to be able to globalise all the best sports.

Hence, we now have Rugby and Cricket World Cups, largely gestated within the former British Empire but increasing in global appeal.

Even Scotland’s greatest sporting export, Curling, or as I like to call it ‘synchronised house-keeping on ice’, is a Winter Olympics favourite.

France had an empire but is there a Boules World Cup? The US invented Baseball but the World Series has reached no further than Canada! And, as to the Italians, they haven’t invented any games since the infamous Lions v Christians fixtures in about 80 AD! And those spoilers, the Germans, who have never invented any worthwhile or notable sport, other than invading their neighbours, put an end to those when their forerunner of the SS, the Visigoths, sacked Rome a few centuries later!

That said, the Swiss, the most boring nation on earth, did take enough time off from making money to invent the bobsleigh - but probably only did so to make even more money!

However, it’s sad to say that we’re not faultless in our generosity - after all, we did give the world the sport of batting a dead budgie back and forth over a garden fence, Badminton, and Boris Johnson! Oh, the shame, the shame!

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48-7

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0-55

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3-52

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3-82

14-27

22-24

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30-19

5-41

Syston

15-15

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3-26

22-29

18-40

5-43

5-76

12-60

21-24

17-5

29-7

5-24

22-22

28-19

34-19

8-15

39-26

22-20

Leighton Buzzard

10-27

Kettering

Bedford Athletic

3-25

Bugbrooke

Huntingdon & District

Huntingdon & District 56-0

Old Northamptonians

18-60

Kettering 95-0

Paviors

Bugbrooke

Leighton Buzzard 104-0

Market Rasen & Louth

38-0

Melton Mowbray

21-20

Northampton Old Scouts

52-7

Oundle

98-0

Peterborough

Bedford Athletic

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LBRFC Office Bearers & Officials 2017-2018 President Mr Mark Hardy

GENERAL COMMITTEE Gordon Fletcher—Chairman L Beaumont, R M Evans, P Cohen, S Draper, M Gray, D Masters, J Davis, J Baroux, T Summers, R Armitage BOARD OF DIRECTORS M. Hardy, G. Fletcher, P. Arthur, R M Evans, E Cohen, L. Beaumont, M Gray

LIFE MEMBERS

H Ansdell, P O’Reilly, H Thomas, P Jackson, R Giltrow, T Tift, R Dillamore, A Hodey, Mrs M Reeves, N. Coles, G Blower, R. Robinson, E Banks, J Hall, A Micans, A Turney

Vice Presidents Mr R Allen

Mr R Ellis Mr M Evans Mr A Batchelor Mr J Fraser Mr L Beaumont Dr B Gilvary Mr N Bedford Mr S Gore Mr D Bowell Mr A Grace Ms L Briggs Mr M Gray Mr C Bundle Mrs M Gray Mr K Burchell Mr T Guerieria Mr K Byard Mr J Halstead Mr E Cohen Mr M Hardy Mrs P Cohen Mr T Cox Mr P Hawkins Mr H Davies Mr D Hayter Mr A Dawson Mr K Healy Mr T Dixon Mr R Hill Mr J d’Souza Mr J Hooper Mr S d’Sylva Mr T Horne Mr M Dyer Mr D Hyde

Mr B Irvine Mr T James Mr M Jones Wg Cdr M Jones Mr P Jones Mr T King Mr D Lee Mr R Lemon Mr A Linden Mr A Long Mr S Maddison Mr M Marrone Mr J McDougal Mr D Middleton Mr L Minney Mr K Minor Mr G Moulds Mrs T Neil Mr D Newton

Mr M Pamplin Mr M Parker Mr C Pearson Mr B Pragnell Mr B Pratt Mr K Prosser Dr I Pullen Mr A Purr Mr T Russell Mr G Sear Mr M Shayler Mr D Siddon Mr J Sirrett Mr M Smith Mr N Smith Mr P Smith Mr H Stanton Mr R Stirling Mr J Surguy

Leighton Buzzard Rugby Football Club Limited Wright’s Meadow, Leighton Road Stanbridge, Bedfordshire. LU7 9HR www.buzzardrugby.co.uk

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Mr J Tarbox Mr M Taylor Mr M Taylor Mr A Tooley Mr C Turner Mr M Turner Mr D Tysom Mr A Walton Mr C Ward Mr T Watkins Mr A White Mrs C Williams Mr M Williams Mr B Wilson Mr A Worral Mr J Wray Mr B Yirrell

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and corporate supporters, KidsOut works to remind these children and thousands of others living with disadvantages what it is like to be children and just have fun.

To get involved and find out more about the lifeͲchanging work KidsOut does, please visit www.kidsout.org.uk Leighton Buzzard Rugby Club is proud to support KidsOut

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