11 Feb Premiership Program

from the Valley they call Happy

round 15

Hard to believe we are heading into the last few weeks of the season, despite this all teams are looking to finish with a bang!

Valley Prem Mens willl be playing Tigers in a key fixture for both teams, as they vie for points heading into the play off rounds.

Valley Prem Womens and Reds will also be taking on the Tigers Women’s team. Valley will be looking to put on a better performance from their previous encounter with the Tigers Prem , whilst the Reds will be hoping for a repeat victory.

Mavericks will be traveling up north to take on seasonal rivals Tin Shui Wai, whilst our Griffins will have a fixture against City RFC in Tin Shui Wai.

Valley SCAA Causeway Bay 7 56

round 14 summary

The half century was brought up by captain Bella Milo and her troops last weekend in a dominant display of rugby against SCAA Causeway Bay. The Valley Womens side were well in control of the game from the onset with an early intercept try from Zoe Smith setting the tone of the game. Defensive pressure was tested by Causeway Bay as the looked to edge over Valley‘s try line at times, however big tackles coming in from Karen So and Anna Marsland did not make the job easy. The inception of Chloe Chan and Cherly So in the team has lifted the players and the team will be looking positively ahead at the next few weeks.

A game lost by Valley rather than won by the opposition is an accurate description when summarising the Mens defeat at the hands of Sandy Bay last weekend. With repeated infringements from Sandy Bay early in the first half, we were rewarded with a early penalty try, to counter the penalty kicks slotted by Sandy Bay. This followed up with great inter linking passages of play between our forward pack led by Rob Lennox and our back line with the Max Woodward and Luke Treharne weaving lines The forwards were ever so dominant up front which led to excellent team tries, however a lapse of defensive concentration in the last play of the game, allowed Sandy Bay to carve around our back line and score the decisive try in the corner

Valley

Sandy Bay 23 17

AFTER ROUND 14

L E A G U E T A B L E S

WOMENS

the teams

ANNA

POSITION

Lock / Flankerr

YEARS @ VALLEY

2 years

WHY THE RED & BLACK

To challenge myself to play at a higher level & learn from playing alongside the best in HK

WHAT DOES YOUR GAME DAY PREPARATION LOOK LIKE?

Consume copious amounts of caffeine, attempt to decode Westy's lineout drawings & try and cheer on my former team Sandy Bay Storm if I can!

IF YOU COULD CHOOSE ANY PLAYER TO BE IN YOUR TEAM, WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Richie McCaw so I wouldn't be the only person with a black eye (thanks Bella)r

WHO HAS BEEN YOUR BEST COACH AND WHY?

Bella! She's very patient when I have no clue what's going on

WHERE DO YOU GO IN HONG KONG TO SWITCH OFF AND CHILL??

Sun Yat Sen at sunset

I met Andrew Kelly for intense contract negotiations in the basement of Medusa. Golden handshake Bali trip was not influential whatsoever

WHAT DOES YOUR GAME DAY PREPARATION LOOK LIKE?

In exact order: Rise, Walk dog, Flat White, complete some remedial task as requested by middy, Breakfast (Tai Hang venue preferred) and finally a minimum of 1 hour down time before meet

IF YOU COULD CHOOSE ANY PLAYER TO BE IN YOUR TEAM, WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Max Lahiff

WHO HAS BEEN THE BEST COACH YOU HAVE HAD AND WHY?

Andrew Long or Steve Pope. No nonsense and massive front row favoritism

WHERE DO YOU GO IN HONG KONG TO SWITCH OFF AND CHILL?

club day spotlight

We have thoroughly enjoyed our Club Days this season where we celebrate all the good that is Red and Black about our Club. Club Days gives us the opportunity to showcase all our rugby teams with back to back games.

18th February will be our last Club Day of the season at Kings Park before we move back to our home pitch at Happy Valley in July.

There will be some key fixtures for the Club next week, particularly with our Premiership sides as both our Womens and Men’s team aiming to finish 2nd or 3rd place in the league tables, which would put us in favourable positioning leading into the Grand Championship Finals.

Lets head down and cheer our players on!

1300 PITCH 1

MAVERICKS V TYPHOONS

1500 PITCH 2

REDS V GAI WU

1630 PITCH 1

1330 PITCH 2

GRIFFINS V KOWLOON

1500 PITCH 1

VALLEY M PREM V HK SCOTTISH

KNIGHTS V HK SCOTTISH

1800 PITCH 1

VALLEY W PREM V GAI WU

18THFEBCLUBDAY

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Societe Generale Valley RFC would like to acknowledge and express sincere thanks and gratitude to our sponsors and partners

We would not be here if it was not for our Title Sponsor Societe Generale, and our primary sponsors TV5 Monde, Mayer Brown, Bonaqua, Swire Properties, Links Moving, HKEX and the Happy Valley Bar and Grill.

We are also lucky to have the support of ONLY Beverage, Gweilo Beers and Metabev who provide our members with products and discount codes to be used throughout the season.