Paviors 9th March 2019

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Midlands Division 1 East Leighton Buzzard RFC v Paviors RFC 9th March 2019 Kick Off 3:00pm Welcome to Wright’s Meadow and welcome to Paviors committee guests and players.

Last week was an unlucky week for Buzzard teams with the Under 15’s losing out in the last minute of the East Midlands Cup semi final. It was a great game and showed we have the talent coming through.

Then on Saturday the first team narrowly lost out to Oundle, fourth in the league, in a tight game which did not reflect the relative positions of the teams in the league. Again it was down to the final minutes before Oundle managed to start to take control in the scrums and grind out the victory. the seconds suffered a defeat against a very strong Tring side who play at a higher level to ourselves and have the strength in depth we are striving to achieve.

Today we have two teams at home, as I write this, and then the 6 Nations on TV. Sounds like a great afternoons rugby.

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Rugby Round Up - Midlands Division 1 East Saturday 23rd February, 2019 - Round 16

Kettering 69 - 14 Melton Mowbray

Saturday 2nd March, 2019 - Round 21 Northampton Old Scouts Oadby Wyggestonians Old Northamptonians Paviors Peterborough Rugby Lions

0 41 25 17 30 31

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43 7 41 34 11 20

West Bridgford Melton Mowbray Lutterworth Kettering Wellingborough Towcestrians

* Friday Night Fixture

Brave Buzzards Just Miss Out Oundle 27 - 21 Leighton Buzzard Leighton Buzzard were fifteen minutes away from pulling off the shock result of the whole Midlands 1 East league season at Oundle on Saturday. Despite the ultimate defeat, this was Buzzard’s best performance of the season against a side that is fourth in the league and scored over fifty points against Leighton early in the season.

The performance was based on a committed defence and unbending team spirit. With the Buzzard pack under pressure from the huge Oundle pack, and the lineout misfiring, the home side had the majority of possession. However line speed in defence, numerous turnovers at the breakdown and making the most of opportunities kept Leighton in the match.

Oundle kicked off with the benefit of the wind. Despite early encouragement for Leighton with an excellent break from fullback Harri Sayer, it was Oundle who took the lead. Having kicked a penalty to the corner, the home pack drove over from the resulting lineout to give Oundle a 5-0 lead after eight minutes.

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It took five minutes for Leighton to respond, after initial sniping round the fringe of the scrum from James Brett, it was Owen Forsythe who crashed over to equal the score at 5-5.

Oundle backs were looking increasingly dangerous but it was through the home side’s Owen Forsythe forwards that they re-took the lead with a forward drive after twenty seven minutes. With the successful conversion the score was now 12-5. Seven minutes later Oundle added a penalty awarded for crossing – just as Leighton were looking to break out of their twenty-two – to extend the lead to 15-5.

Whilst there were no further scores before half-time, Buzzards finished the half on the attack as both Jack Whitehouse and then Matt Brazier were tackled short.

When Leighton finally crossed the line, the referee adjudged Owen Forsythe to have made a double movement and disallowed the score.

Now playing with the wind, Jack Green - debut match, debut try Buzzards started the half in a positive mood and it took just six minutes to cut the lead. James Brett caught Oundle napping and took a quick tap penalty from thirty metres out. He was supported by wing-forward Jack Green who scored the try on his league debut to cut the score to 15-10. Buoyed by this, Leighton attacked straight from the kick off with Eddie Wiggins prominent in the break. Whilst the attack was stopped, a penalty was conceded and, with James Brett’s successful kick, the score was now 15-13.

Midway through the half, Leighton took the lead. An Oundle dropped pass was pounced on by James Brett who kicked ahead and then adroitly regathered the ball to score to take Buzzards 15-18 ahead.

Within five minutes of taking the lead, a bad ligament injury to 2nd row

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Adam Lackey caused a reorganisation of the pack. The Buzzard scrum was now under intense pressure and shortly afterwards the Oundle pack drove up to the try line. As the scrum collapsed the referee awarded a penalty try, restoring the Oundle lead at 22-18.

Again Buzzards came back with a further James Brett penalty to bring James Brett them within a point at 22-21 with ten minutes remaining. Sadly Buzzards could not add to their total and with the last play of the game, the home side’s forwards were adjudged to have driven over to leave the final score 27-21.

Buzzards will take much more from this match than the single losing bonus point. Whilst five seasons of level 6 rugby is coming to an end with relegation, this youthful Leighton side is showing considerable spirit and fight. No doubt the experience gained from matches against fine sides like Oundle will be of benefit next season. Whilst this was a team performance, a special mention is deserved for Reece Harris Smith who volunteered to play out of position as a prop.

Midlands Division 1 East 2018 - 2019 Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Kettering Paviors Peterborough Oundle Oadby Wyggestonians Lutterworth Towcestrians West Bridgford Old Northamptonians Wellingborough Rugby Lions Leighton Buzzard Northampton Old Scouts Melton Mowbray

P 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21

W 19 17 15 15 13 13 12 10 10 9 7 3 2 1

D 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 11 12 14 18 19 20

PF 756 752 470 611 671 589 638 609 440 415 486 288 243 194

PA 233 341 297 398 455 461 438 484 425 549 624 675 819 963

+/523 411 173 213 216 128 200 125 15 -134 -138 -387 -576 -769

TB LB Pts 16 2 94 17 3 88 7 4 73 12 1 73 13 3 70 13 2 67 13 3 64 12 4 56 7 3 50 5 2 43 9 3 40 4 3 19 0 2 10 2 3 4

2nd March 2019

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Future Buzzards Under 18s Buzzard colts were in action for 3 Counties Barbarians and also reinforced a depleted Peterborough RFC team on Sunday. Excellent ball handling by the backs in wet weather resulted in George Pratt finding the defensive gap to open the scoring for Barbarians. However, Peterborough fought back with the assistance of 2 loaned Buzzard players, Rhys Richards and Julian Gallie, and it was Julian who penetrated the Barbarian defence to touchdown. Sustained pressure by Barbarians ended with a dropped ball on the try line. After a series of set pieces, George used his pace and power to drive over for his second try. Max Green made his presence felt in the rucks and Dane Richards was always threatening on the wing. At the end of the first half Barbarians were in control. Early in the 2nd half, Rhys scored for Barbarians, outpacing the Peterborough defence. Peterborough fought back and tries were traded but in final play Julian showed his fitness as he broke through from within the Barbarian half being brought down on the 5m line, a neat pop pass to George and with Peterborough in Rhys Richards disarray the ball went to Rhys to touch down for his second. Final score was a Barbarians win 40-19.

Under 9s

Our under 9s enjoying the sun and the atmosphere at Allianze Park

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New & Returning Player Wayne Chapman, has returned

to playing rugby at Buzzards.

Wayne has taken time out from rugby to start a family and develop his career. Wayne made 107 first team and 95 league appearances; there’s still time to get the 100th appearance.

Harry Charter, started his rugby

at Buzzards and has been away at Saints for a while where he was advised to play at Ampthill as a colt.

Harry has chosen to come back to his roots. Harry has made one first team appearance. Today he is playing in the Schools U18s Vase semi-final for Samuel Whitbread Academy v Worksop College at Allianze Park. In the previous round they beat Newcastle School 45 5 and along the way; Aylesbury Grammar, St George’s School Harpenden, St John Lawes and Bishop Stortford College.

Haydon Jones and John Fudge both lads started their playing careers at Buzzards and will be alongside Harry on Saturday. The club wishes all three the best of good luck and look forward to them returning to rugby at Leighton Buzzard.

Harry’s dad Glen played for the club and was 2nd team captain for a season he also played for the vets but possibly as an imposter.

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1st Team Appearances Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

Jack Whitehouse Jacob Murtagh Owen Forsythe Andrew Harris-Smith James Brett Harrison Sayer Tom Mowbray Dan Baroux James Pratt Kristian Hastings Damilola Adebayo Matt Brazier Adam Lackey Reece Harris-Smith Ed Wiggins Jon Henkes Matt Bloxham Oliver Gronert Ross Bevan Oliver Taylor Graham Magill Mike Lynch Mike Robert Karl Evans Jack Kempster Harry Cootes Nick Geoghegan Jake Wheeler Will Batchelor Michael Carter Elliot Swann Keiran Turney Ashley Walsh Adam Stacey Raef Braithwaite Patrick Fraser Chris Bateman Ben Johnson Ryan Eaton James Draper Ryan Andrew Ed Taylor Ben Beaumont James Ward Jordan Marshall Anthony Wilson Harry Charter Jack Green Keir Wheeler

2018-2019 Season 20 20 19 19 17 17 16 15 15 14 14 14 14 13 13 10 9 9 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

League 20 20 19 19 17 17 16 15 15 14 14 14 14 13 13 10 9 9 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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Total % 95% 95% 90% 90% 81% 81% 76% 71% 71% 67% 67% 67% 67% 62% 62% 48% 43% 43% 38% 33% 33% 33% 33% 33% 33% 33% 33% 24% 24% 24% 19% 19% 14% 14% 14% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5%

All 137 39 41 19 36 17 25 261 16 35 16 14 14 51 23 54 12 9 87 177 109 73 56 39 14 12 7 63 14 7 37 11 56 13 9 23 5 5 4 2 110 63 48 45 39 2 1 1 1

League 131 38 40 19 35 17 25 235 16 33 16 14 14 50 21 52 12 9 81 166 100 73 54 38 13 12 7 52 14 7 37 9 55 13 9 23 5 4 4 2 100 59 48 44 37 2 1 1 1

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Leighton Buzzard Scorers 2018 - 2019 Midlands 1Â Player

Tries

Convs

Pens

DG

Points

James Brett James Pratt Harrison Sayer Jake Wheeler Reece Harris-Smith Oliver Taylor Owen Forsythe Jacob Murtagh Jack Whitehouse Andrew Harris-Smith Ed Wiggins Damilola Adeybayo Raef Braithwaite Matt Brazier Jack Green John Henkes Mike Lynch Graham Magill Mike Robert Try Penalty TOTALS Points

4 8 6 1 4 1 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 46 230

7 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 28

5 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 30

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

49 40 30 21 20 16 15 15 15 10 10 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 288 288

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% Club Pts 17.0 13.9 10.4 7.3 6.9 5.6 5.2 5.2 5.2 3.5 3.5 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 2.4 100

100 At 2nd March 2019

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2nd Team Merit Table Standings Young’s London Gold Merit Table - 2018 / 2019 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Team Northampton Casuals II Olney II Leighton Buzzard II Stewarts & Lloyds II Oundle II Northampton Old Scouts II Milton Keynes II Bugbrooke II Huntingdon & District II

P W D 9 8 0 9 7 0 5 3 0 5 3 0 6 3 0

L 1 2 2 2 3

F 356 362 131 92 234

A 133 170 145 219 174

Diff 223 192 -14 -127 60

% 89 78 60 60 50

Pts 33 30 14 14 15

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6 159 234 -75 22 16 0 5 179 227 -48 14 11 0 4 55 198 -143 0 4 0 2nd March 2019

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31/08/2017 11:57

John McDougal Points Of Law A Kick To The Corner And Touch-In Goal One point of law arising from our recent home game against Old Northamptonians.

Buzzards had a penalty and Jack Whitehouse kicked for the corner. However, Jack misjudged it and the ball went dead – touch in goal. Old Northamptonians’ asked for the scrum – back from the place of the kick rather than a twenty-two drop out. The referee, Nicola Reynolds, said no it has to be twenty-two drop out, as the kick was a penalty and not open play.

The Old Northamptonians’ bench asked me if this was correct. My instant view was that she was wrong although there was referee in the crowd on a day off who was convinced she was correct.

The law states, if a team kicks the ball dead in the opponents in goal area, except by an unsuccessful kick at goal or attempted drop goal then the defending team has two choices – a drop out or a scrum from where the ball was kicked.

So therefore the referee was wrong and a scrum back should have been allowed.

This point seemed strangely familiar – and looking back my Points of Law from October 2016 covered the exact same point when a referee had got it wrong in the away games at Paviors.

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Buzzards Coaching & Support Team

Tom Mowbray Head Coach

Assistant Coaches

Paul Greenway Forwards

Backs

Skills

John McDougal 1 XV Manager st

Graham Magill

Dave Chapman

Chris Bateman

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Leighton Buzzard RFC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 (A) (D)

Owen Forsythe (A) Elliot Swann (A) Kieran Turney (A) Dami Adebayo Reece Harris-Smith (A) Jacob Murtagh (A) Ross Bevan (A) Andrew Harris-Smith (A) James Brett (A) Jack Whitehouse (A) (Captn) Ref Braithwaite (A) Eddie Wiggins (A) Mike Robert James Pratt (A) Harri Sayer Ben Savage (A)(D) Will Batchelor (A) Adam Stacey (A)

Prop Hooker Prop 2nd Row 2nd Row Flanker Flanker Number 8 Scrum Half Stand Off Left Wing Centre Centre Right Wing Full Back Replacement Replacement Replacement

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Schools Cup As I was about to send the programme to the printers I learned that Kai Baines, one of our U15s is also playing in the Schools Cup Vase semi-final for Samuel Whitbread school on Sunday 10th March at Allianze Park. Kick off 10:30am. Good luck Kai.

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New & Returning Player Sam Connolly - A warm welcome

to him from the club. Sam joined the club after moving to Leighton Buzzard at the start of the year. He has made three appearances for Buzzard 2s already and is playing for them again today. Here he’s seen disappointed that Wayne Chapman didn’t pass to him to score Buzzards 5th try against Bugbrooke the other week.

Callum Creber - Has returned

to the club having completed his university studies. Callum has made two appearnaces for the 2nd team; the first against Bugbrooke and the second against Tring last week. In the Bugbrooke game he made his mark on the game from the moment he came on the pitch and finished off bagging the 2s sixth try of the afternoon. Callum is a player to watch, I’m sure he will be a regular member of the 1st team squad next season.

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New & Returning Player Ben Savage - I

wouldn’t normally add Ben’s photo until after he has made is return appearance but I thought this photo had some interest.

Ben playing as a colt is in the centre of the photo carrying the ball.

Also in the photo is Will Batchelor and Adam Stacey both playing in the 1st team alongside Ben today. Also in the photo is Jordan Cummins who has gone somewhere else. Photo - 19th April 2015

Ladies & Girls Rugby Linslade School Girls Rugby Squad - The

club hosted the local school’s squad for a training session on Wednesday afternoon and they had a thoroughly good time. There are 2 more session over the coming weeks.

This week club chairman Gordon Fletcher and Mini Chairman Kevin Street ran the session.

Steve Maddison - flushed with success of organising Mens Touch Rugby Wednesday evenings is now organising Ladies Touch Rugby. If you are interested in playing or know someone that is contact Steve direct or speak to anyone on the committee who will do their utmost to help you.

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Time Gone By The fixture earlier in the season showed great spirit from The Buzzards and the score did not reflect our performance. Beaten 41 - 13 Buzzards fought hard throughout the game and applied good pressure but injuries to Paviors players interrupted Buzzards’ flight plan on a number of occasions. A good attack through James Pratt saw the ball spread wide for Andrew Harris-Smith to release his brother Reece for a try. Eight minutes later Reece burst out of the 22m area barging several Paviors players out of his way to release brother Andy to score. Paviors scored 6 tries to Buzzards 2. Well done the Egg Men Reece and Andrew, encore please.

Buzzards Paviors

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Midlands 1 East - 2017 -2018 Team P W D L PF PA Bedford Athletic 26 24 0 2 1299 302 Syston 26 23 0 3 983 331 Kettering 26 21 0 5 903 346 Paviors 26 18 0 8 966 488 Old Northamptonians 26 17 1 8 713 470 Peterborough 26 13 0 13 701 686 Oundle 26 13 0 13 740 715 Melton Mowbray 26 10 0 16 502 868 Northampton Old Scouts 26 10 0 16 494 722 Wellingborough 26 9 2 15 492 604 Leighton Buzzard 26 9 0 17 508 822 Bugbrooke 26 8 0 18 426 984 Huntingdon & District 26 5 1 20 390 890 Market Rasen & Louth 26 0 0 26 300 1189

+/997 652 557 478 243 15 25 -366 -228 -112 -314 -558 -500 -889

TB 20 21 18 15 11 13 13 10 8 6 6 6 4 2

LB 1 1 3 3 3 6 5 3 2 1 3 3 4 5

Pts 117 114 105 90 84 71 70 53 50 47 45 41 30 7

28th April 2018

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Dickie’s Drivel Returns I’m informed that former pupils of High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham, from amongst which our opposition today, Paviors, was founded, include the satirist John Bird, the actor Peter Bowles, who charmed the nation in ‘To the Manor Born’, and the serial killer Harold Shipman.

So, let’s hope we don’t get murdered on the pitch this afternoon. If we are, I’m sure it’ll be done charmingly and without satirical mockery!

Otherwise, you may have seen the roadside signs around the town advertising that, at 7.30pm this evening, Richard Allen, the prize-winning Harpist, will be playing music by Debussy, Hindemith, Fauré, Henriette Renié and more.

In case you are considering attending this, thinking it’s me, please rest assured that it’s not, if only as, suffice it to say, by 7.30pm this evening I’ll be a different sort of ‘pist’ - and it won’t be ‘ha’pist either’ - with the tunes played having been provided by Messrs. Dubonnet, Hennessey, Remy Martin and, needless to say, more than a few by the great Portuguese maestro, Mr. Taylor.

Meanwhile, my niece, who is, of course, English but married to a Scotsman, gave birth to a baby boy recently. There was some debate within the family as to what he should be called. My suggestion that the wee bony bairn be named ‘Calcutta Cup’, as he’ll have competing English and Scottish sides, was not taken up.

As accident has it, the boy’s father was a project manager for the Marks & Spencer store that opened recently on the edge of town. Unfortunately, I have past ‘form’ with M&S and my one and, now probably, only visit to the new store did not improve on this.

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Some years ago, I was in the Milton Keynes version of M&S and asked for a 50% reduction on the item I was buying. This was, inevitably, rejected and I was asked on what grounds I thought I warranted such a discount.

So, I pointed at the back wall and the sign saying ‘Try it on’ and informed the cashier that I was “trying it on”. There were three, very unprofessional, ‘f…ing’ words in her reply - only one of which referred to the sign being for the fitting room! I seem to remember the word ‘Muppet’ also being used.

On a subsequent occasion, as is my usual practice, I went straight up the escalator to the men’s clothing floor and bought my item but, never having had to do so before, needed to ask one of the assistants how to get out of the shop into the car park rather than back into the shopping centre. She informed me that I should turn right at the food section, to which my response was “What food section? I didn’t even know you sold food”.

You’ll be pleased to hear that I’d taken this on board when I visited the new store and, so, wasn’t surprised that it, indeed, sells food. However, both I and the very keen shop assistant were surprised when he asked me whether he could help and I asked him for directions to the men’s clothing part - me because there isn’t one and he because I thought there would be. What’s the world coming to when an M&S shop doesn’t sell clothes? I blame it on Brexit!

The new store does, though, sell the FT and Peroni, which is more than can be said for WH Smith on the High Street, but they don’t do All Day Breakfast sandwiches, so, henceforth, it’s back to the ‘greasy spoon’ around the corner again for me.

All in all, the experience was ‘pants’, because they don’t do pants!

Let’s hope the 1st Team aren’t the same on the pitch today…

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2nd XV Fixtures & Results 2018-19 Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

1-Sep 8-Sep 15-Sep 22-Sep 29-Sep 6-Oct 13-Oct 20-Oct 27-Oct 3-Nov 10-Nov 17-Nov 23-Nov 1-Dec 8-Dec 15-Dec 22-Dec 29-Dec 5-Jan 12-Jan 19-Jan 26-Jan 2-Feb 9-Feb 16-Feb 23-Feb 2-Mar 9-Mar 15-Mar 23-Mar 30-Mar 6-Apr 13-Apr 20-Apr 27-Apr

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Young’s London Gold East Midlands Merit Herts/Middlesex Merit Table 3

Friendly Milton Keynes II Northampton Casuals II Hitchin II Finchley II Fullerians III Northampton Old Scouts II Friendly Old Grammarians Black Horse Bugbrooke Amersham & Chiltern III Olney II [Friday Night] Biggleswade II Old Albanians Gladiators (III) Northampton Casuals II WELLINGBOROUGH (DEV) Christmas/New Year CHESHAM II NORTHAMPTON MENS OWN II Northampton Casuals II

Milton Keynes II

NORTHAMPTON MENS OWN II

Bugbrooke TRING III BIGGLESWADE III Olney II [Friday Night] TABARD II

Milton Keynes II AMPTHILL VI

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Buzzards Junior Fixtures U15

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Cup SF Northampton Old Scouts (C)

Peterborough Lions Kettering (L) Cup Final

U16 Dunstablians (L) H Luton (F) H Wednesday Evening 7:30 pm KO H Long Buckby (L) H H Cup SF Cup Final

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Congratulations Louis Beer - Louis has

been selected for the England Counties U18 squad for the Ireland tour.

England Counties U18 team manager Dave Penberthy has named the squad to face Ireland in a two match tour in April.

The 23 player squad was selected following a national development weekend at Stourbridge RFC which saw players gather for several days of coaching and selection.

The squad will gather on 18th April at HMS Temeraire in Portsmouth to prepare for two fixtures in Dublin against Ireland U18 Clubs and Schools.

The first match will take place on Wednesday, 24th April followed by the second game on Saturday, 27th April.

Colts from 2014 - 2015 Where are they now? I count at least 8 as still playing for Buzzards, 3 have moved on. Kieran Turney, PJ Fraser, Michael Carter, Ben Savage, Kristian Hastings, Will Batchelor, Matt Stacey and Adam Stacey.

Bold Italics = playing today for the 1st Team, Underlined = Injured

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Man of the Match Award Both visiting and home supporters will be able to vote for their “Man of the Match” in all Leighton Buzzard 1st XV home Games this season.

To vote please complete and detach the voting slip below and place it in the box on the bar after the final whistle.

Once voting has closed, the votes will be totted up by an almost independent adjudicator and the winner will receive their award in a short presentation.

This award is open to both Buzzards and their opposition so please vote fairly and only vote once. We are very thankful to M&M Properties for sponsoring this seasons man of the match awards.

Leighton Buzzard RFC - Man of the Match Award 2018/19 In Association with M&M Properties.

Player’s Name:

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Player’s Club:

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Reason:

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Old Northamptonians

Oadby Wyggestonians

Northampton Old Scouts

Melton Mowbray

Lutterworth

Leighton Buzzard

Kettering

3-43

7-3

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7-3

7-81

48-5 17-31 26-11

45-17 43-33 54-12 38-17 24-35 20-32 14-21 10-36 0-15

43-7

36-22 17-7 31-10 21-48 25-26 52-14

55-5 27-60 28-3 35-46 19-31 17-25

34-8

22-18

17-24

34-13

31-20 20-21 20-17

36-17 20-6 30-11 17-26

20-15 57-12 29-14 59-5

6-17 16-13 33-13 40-23 44-26 48-19

West Bridgeford

29-22 62-3

19-6

13-29 0-62

20-10 33-28

12-27

37-32

8-43 13-60 19-21 0-43

31-26

22-19 41-36 39-34 42-18 23-27 12-5

30-5 12-12 24-17 15-13 33-32

40-26 17-0 26-17

46-17

17-29

0-61

0-48

38-15 3-20 19-18 45-21 26-25 3-10 24-12 15-47 8-27

25-7

58-0

48-13

18-27

13-52

37-35

Wellingborough

Towcestrians 16-24

Rugby Lions

Peterborough 12-10 13-6

27-21 38-14

Paviors 17-34 41-13

Oundle

Old Northamptonians 12-32 10-5 25-41 52-0 43-20

28-13 5-63 41-7 37-14

7-41 18-16

Oadby Wyggestonians 12-13 29-15 25-6

Northampton Old Scouts

Melton Mowbray 13-65 12-17 0-34

71-3 57-21 22-31 21-17

3-53

Towcestrians

8-24 31-22

Peterborough

22-35

34-8

Wellingborough

Lutterworth

17-34 36-24 35-19 0-50 15-32 8-53

Oundle

Leighton Buzzard 5-50

Paviors

33-0 44-7 69-14 61-0 29-22 39-10 36-5 24-20

Rugby Lions

Kettering

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West Bridgeford

1st XV Fixtures & Results 2018-19 Sat Sat [A] Sat [A] Thu [E] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

11-Aug 18-Aug 23-Aug 1-Sep 8-Sep 15-Sep 22-Sep 29-Sep 6-Oct 13-Oct 20-Oct 27-Oct 3-Nov 10-Nov 17-Nov 24-Nov 1-Dec 8-Dec 15-Dec 22-Dec 29-Dec 5-Jan 12-Jan 19-Jan 26-Jan 1-Feb 9-Feb 16-Feb 23-Feb 2-Mar 9-Mar 16-Mar 23-Mar 30-Mar 6-Apr 13-Apr 20-Apr 27-Apr

Lge WK PS PS PS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Opposition

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LUTON LETCHWORTH FULLERIANS Wellingborough Kettering West Bridgford Lutterworth Melton Mowbray Northampton Old Scouts Kettering [Rescheduled] Oadby Wyggestonians Old Northamptonians Oundle Biggleswade [Beds County Cup - QF] Paviors Peterborough Rugby Lions Towcestrians Kettering Res/Cup Christmas/New Year West Bridgford Lutterworth Melton Mowbray Northampton Old Scouts Res/Cup Oadby Wyggestonians Old Northamptonians Bedford Queens [Beds County Cup - SF] Oundle Paviors Res/Cup Peterborough Rugby Lions Towcestrians Wellingborough EASTER Cup/Res Play Off

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H H A H A A H A H A x H H A H

R W Evening C Afternoon L Evening L P L L W L L L L L AWO L Kick Off L Times L 3:00pm L during L L L W W

A L H L A AWO A L H A H A H

Sept, Oct, Mar & Apr 2:15pm during, Nov, Dec, Jan & Feb

Other Midlands 1 East League Matches This Weekend Kettering Lutterworth

v v

Peterborough Oundle

Melton Mowbray

v

Old Northamptonians

v Northampton Old Scouts Oadby Wggestonians Wellingborough v Rugby Lions West Bridgford v Towcestrians * Friday Evening Fixture

Buzzards Other Fixtures This Weekend Buzzards II

v

Biggleswade III

* Friday Evening Fixture

Under 16s

Buzzards

v

Long Buckby

League fixture 11am kick off Sunday 10th March

Buzzards U18s Forth Coming Fixtures

Date 10-Mar 17-Mar 24-Mar 7-Apr 28-Apr

Opposition

Towcestrians Mens Own Grove Bletchley Stockwood Park

A A A A A

Venue Towcestrians NMORFC Grove St Ives RFC SPRFC

Unless Stated Otherwise all Fixtures Sunday 11am Kick Off

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LBRFC Office Bearers & Officials 2018-2019 President Mr Mark Hardy DL

GENERAL COMMITTEE

Gordon Fletcher—Chairman L Beaumont, R M Evans, E Cohen, P Cohen, S Draper, J Gibson, K Street, J Davis, J Baroux

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

M. Hardy, G. Fletcher, P. Arthur, R M Evans, E Cohen, L. Beaumont

LIFE MEMBERS

H Ansdell, P O’Reilly, H Thomas, 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 G D Allen Mrs Linda Baroux Mr Lee Beaumont Mr Richard Beer Mr Danny Bowell Miss Liz Briggs Mr Neville Brown Mr Colin Bundle Mr Keith Burchell Mr Kevin Byard Mr Jon Chapman Mr Henry Clark Mr Eric Cohen Mrs Pauline Cohen Mr Russell Cohen Mr Terry Cox Mr Steve d’Sylva Mr Hugh Davies Mr Alan Dawson Mr Tony Dixon Mr Martin Dwyer Mr Richard Ellis Mr Mike Evans

Dr Brian Gilvary Mr Stuart Gore Mr Ashley Grace Mr Mel Gray Mrs Myra Gray Mr Tony Guerieria Mr Darren Hayter Mr Kelvin Healy Mr William Henderson Mr Ron Hill Mr Andrew Hogg Mr John Hooper Mr Tony Horne Mr Dave Hyde Mr Ben Irvine Mr Terry James Mr Andy Jenkins Wg Cdr M Jones Mr Peter Keane Mr Trevor King Mr Dave Lee Mr Roy Lemon Mr Jeff Lewis

Mr Adrian Linden Mr Andy Long Mr Steve Maddison Mr Mario Marrone Mr John McDougal Mr David Middleton Mr Les Minney Mr Keith Minor Mr Gordon Moulds Mrs Trish Neill Mr David Newton Mr Maurice Parker Mr Bill Pragnell Mr Bryan Pratt Mr John Pratt Mr Keith Prosser Mr Andy Purr Mr Richard Roff Mr Steve Rogers Mr Clive Rose Mr Trevor Russell Mr John Sear Mr Martin Shayler

Mr David Siddon Mr John Sirrett Mr M J Smith Mr Neil Smith Mr Peter Smith Mr John Surguy Mr John Tarbox Mr Marc Taylor Mr Malcolm Taylor Mr Andy Tooley Mr Chris Turner Mr Mike Turner Mr David Tysom Mr Matt Vincent Mr Andy Walton Mr Cliff Ward Mr Nobby Ward Mr Terry Watkins Mrs Carol Williams Mr Mike Williams Mr Barry Wilson Mr Alan Worrell Mr Bill Yirrell

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

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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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