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July 2002
Junior Section
The Club is planning to launch a Junior Section in October this year.
See the New Junior Section of this Web Site - Junior
Section
Summer Academy
The morning of Sunday 28th July saw the final week of the Summer Academy
which finished with a round robin tournament of Tag Rugby. There was even
the opportunity for the mums and Dads to have a go - all who took part
thoroughly enjoyed it!. Our particular thanks go to Dany Johnson for all
his help and assistance on the coaching side. Unfortunately, he is unable
to attend the last session., but he says:
"Sorry I'm not on 28 Jul 02, due to the fact there is a coach's
society day which has been re-arranged from June for also tomorrow.
I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on a well
organised and structured academy over the last six weekends, its the
way forward so keep up the excellent work. I would like to thank the players
and members of Verwood Rugby Club for
the hospitality & welcome they gave to me, if you could please
pass that on. If there is anything I can assist with in the future please
do not hesitate to get in touch.
GOOD LUCK FOR THE COMING SEASON!
Regards Dany Johnson"
Club Communication
In a recent Dorset Poll, the Club has been highly commended for its
means of communication with members and players. Notwithstanding this,
the Club is updating its records. If you are not on the Club's e-mail list,
please supply your e-mail details asap. To e-mail the webmaster click on
e-mail the Club
Wot no in Goal Area?
The Club has decided on its tactics for the forthcoming season. As
a special dispensation from the RFU, the Club has been allowed to play
one way this season due to Wessex Water undertaking major drainage works
at Potterne Park. How many points is this worth? Is this a record for the
shortest ever in-goal area?
The work will hopefully be complete by the end of September. However, all the Club's Matches will be away in September to accommodate these works.
Bob Burr appears in Touchline
Magazine
Bob Burr is featured in the current edition of the RFU's magazine Touchline.
See the on line version at the RFU's Web Site. See
Touchline
Fitness Training
Our thanks to Robbie Burr for running his excellent fitness sessions
at Potterne on Friday 12th & 19th July. Training now reverts to its
normal Thursday night slot at 7.30pm. The first Thursday session will involve
a series of fitness tests including the dreaded "bleep test".
Robbie Burr
Good on ya mate! Robbie was a fitness coach to the Australian Rugby
League side Brisbane Broncos. The Club have been very fortunate in being
able to make use of his expertise. See Brisbane
Broncos
Lawrence McCarthy
As many of you know, Lawrence has not been on the scene for a little
while due to personal problems. He has asked for his letter to the Club
to be published on the Web Site. See Lawrence's
letter
We all look forward to seeing you back in the fold Lawrence.
Powergen Junior Vase
This is a National Cup competition for Junior Clubs culminating in
the Final at Twickenham. Verwood has drawn Fawley away in the first round
on 21st September. For the low down on Fawley see their Web Site at
Fawley RFC See Powergen
Cup Draw
2002/3 Fixtures
These have now been fixed. Our thanks to Neil Scarisbrick for all his
hard work. See Fixtures
Summer Academy
Week 3 (Sunday 7th July) proved to be very successful with 30 youngsters
participating despite the lack of sunshine. See Pictures
Pre-Season Training
Bob Burr has managed to enlist the services of his nephew, Robbie Burr,
a professional Fitness trainer who hasworked with the Brisbane Broncos,
a Super 12 Club. He will take us through the first two
pre-season sessions on Friday 12th July and Friday 19th
July @ 7.30pm. Following this, (back to
Thursdays) at the session on 25th July there will be fitness tests.
The purpose is to gauge each
individual’s fitness so that a benchmark can be obtained to measure
improved fitness over the
months ahead. These simple tests will be repeated probably at 4 weekly
intervals.
The first coaching sessions will commence on 15th August. The Club's
coaching team have decided to map the season ahead so that everyone can
see what the purpose is of each session is and can prepare accordingly.
If any playing member has not had a copy of this document please contact
any member of the committee.
Touch Rugby
The Club's Touch Rugby Tournament ended on Thursday 4th July. Congratulations
to the Barbarians who won all their six matches and lifted the Hookway
Cup. Congratulations to Natalie who was considered to be the best Lady
Player, with David Hoggins picking up the honours for the best Junior.
Our thanks to The Fayrewood, Albion and Swans for their support which has
been greatly appreciated. Finally, a big thank you to "Paddy" and Mike
Cockram for their refereeing prowess which was tested to the full on a
number of occasions!
See Table and Results & Pictures
See Policeman Sin binned
Summer Academy
Mark Ramsey doing his bit for youth development. Continuing throughout
July on Sunday mornings. If you want to help or are aged 8-12 years old
and want to take part, please contact us.
Nick Carlyon Memorial Shield
Our thanks to Danny Johnson for generously donating
to the Club a Shield to record the winners of the end of season Past v
Present matches
June 2002
Summer Academy
It is fitting that the last day of the month saw another good turnout
for the second week of the Summer Acedemy. 30+ youngsters turned out. It
was particularly pleasing to see so many parents and grandparents staying
to watch the session.
The second phase of the Club's Youth Development programme commenced
on Sunday 23rd June with the start of the Club's Summer Academy for 8-12
year olds. This will run for six weeks on Sunday mornings at Potterne Park.
The Academy organiser is the Club's Community Rugby officer, Dave Hockaday.
He said: " I was pleased with the turnout with 36 enthusiastic youngsters
attending the session. This builds on the success of our Hillside First
School initiative"
Touch Rugby
Week 4 of the touch rugby sees victories again for the Swans and Barbarians
Week 3 of the touch rugby sees another good turnout - fortunately the
weather has been kind to us on Thursday evenings. The Albion were particularly
impressed with debutante's Sarah Mason-Smith and Ali Howell!
Wins for the Barbarians in a closely contested game as well as the Swans.
The Tour Pictures have at last been tracked down by our Internet sleuth Mike Wheatley. They can be found at:
http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/bc/paigntonrugby
Week 2 of the Touch Rugby sees the Verwood Barbarians at the top of the table winning their first two matches. See Table and Results
The Club is looking to enter a team(s) in the Weymouth Beach Tag Rugby Festival on Sunday 7th July & the Bournemouth Beach Tag Festival on Sunday 14th July. If you are interested use the Availability Link
May 2002
The first week of the Touch Rugby sees wins for The Swans and the Verwood Barbarians. An excellent turnout.
Forest FM, Verwood's local radio station, is back on air until 21st June on 106.6 FM Click on Forest FM below
The practice session for the touch Rugby Tournament starting on Thursday 30th May was a resounding success with 30+ attending. The picture shows Dave Hockaday at full gallop. The Tournament ( now in its third year) starts on Thursday 30th May at 7pm at Potterne Park from 7pm onwards. See Touch Rugby for all the details. The latest Team squad details have also been updated see Team Lists
As you can see a live weather newsfeed has been added to this page. Also, see Potterne Park on the Club's new Webcam. See Webcam
The Club's Tag Rugby initiative at Hillside school concluded on 15th May having run for the last six weeks. See Hillside School
Bob Burr's RFU Recognition Award will be featured in the June edition of "Touchline" the official newspaper of the RFU. See Bob Burr
In case you missed it, here is the End of Season Quiz
The Club's Annual Dinner was held at the Chrischurch Ski centre on Friday 3rd May.
A good time was had by all. Congratulations to all those who collected Club awards:
Top Try Scorer: Tim Wynn
Most Improved Player: Ross Wilkinson
Captain's Player of the Year: Mike Lock
Clubman of the year: Bob Burr
Player of the year: Neil Westerman
Best Newcomer: Nigel Brunning
Coach's player of the year: Andy Hoggins
Further congratulations also go to Bob Burr. The RFU accepted the Club's nomination that he be presented with an RFU VIP tie in recognition of his contribution to the Club this season. See Awards Photos
The Team Photo from the Chineham match is now available for purchase. See Team Photo
April 2002
The Nick Carlyon Memorial Match - Saturday 27th April
Verwood Past 41 Verwood Present 22
This last game of the season was a fitting tribute the to the late Nick Carlyon who died last year. He was a young man and a friend to all at Verwood RUFC. As a founder member of our Club, he played in the front row and later in the backs at centre. His happy and generous disposition was always apparent. Sadly, he took his own life.
A total of ten tries were scored in what was a very open game of rugby played in good spirit. See Match Report & Pictures
All proceeds from today’s game will be passed to the Wooden Spoon Society, a rugby charity which helps under privileged children.
Scorers:
Verwood Past: George Leyland (3); Charlie Cockran ; Dave Stephens;
Dan Johnson;Tim Wynn; John
Penalty - George Leyland
Conversions: George Leyland (3); Robin Peirce (1).
Verwood Present: Nigel Brunning; Ross Wilkinson; Andy Coe; Gary Maidment
Conversion - Gary Maidment
Visit the WSS Web Site by clicking on the logo below:
The boys joined Paignton RFC for a tour of the IOW on the weekend of 20/21 April. All returned in one piece although various parts of the anatomy got shaved. What was Simon Banks up to?
Verwood RUFC have been piloting After School Tag Rugby at Hillside First School, Verwood, over the last two weeks. So far the sessions have gone very well with 30 very enthusiasic youngsters taking part. The Club will run this for the next four weeks to assess the interest in establishing a mini section at the youngest age group for Season 2002/3.
This is how Division 2 finished. It is not yet known who will be relegated as there has been talk of re-structuring the League so that Four may enter Division 3.
Hampshire 2
Team
P W D L F A Diff Pts
New Milton & District 17 14
1 2 527 253 274 29
Eastleigh
17 12 1 4 363 184 179 25
Isle Of Wight
17 10 2 5 227 214 13 22
Portcastrians
17 9 2 6 336 220 116 20
Ventnor
17 8 2 7 307 233 74 18
Fordingbridge
17 10 0 7 263 215 48 18 2*
Fleet
17 7 010 222 279 -57 14
Lytchett Minster
17 4 0 13 123 323 -200 8
Kingsclere
17 3 1 13 160 373 -213 7
Overton
17 3 1 13 171 405 -234 7
Verwood ended their first season in Hampshire Division 3 with a well fought victory over Stoneham Park 26-22 at Potterne Park. See Match Report League Table & Pictures
Other Results from Hampshire Division 3:
Ellingham & Ringwood Home W/O Chineham
Paxton Pumas 77 - 5 Brockenhurst
New Picture from the Twickers Trip. The Chaiman is seen here chatting to JPR Williams (far left).
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No game was played on Saturday 23rd Match because of the England v Wales International. 11 of use went up to the match by minibus and 11 of us returned home. We also watched London Welsh v Crawshays in the morning. See Pictures
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Verwood took delivery of their "changed" strip on Saturday 16th March which was worn against Chineham. See Team Picture below
To everyone's great disappointment, Verwood lost away to Chineham in
Hampshire Division 3 17- 6 on Saturday 16th March. Verwood controlled the
game in the first half and led 6-3 at half-time through two well struck
penalties from full-back Phil Emery, with Chineham's Steve Knight adding
a penalty just before the break. Two opportunist tries by Andy Bloodsworth
and Richard Avenell (both converted) allowed Chineham to take a commanding
lead following which Verwood were always on the back foot.
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Other recent results from Hampshire Division 3
Saturday, 16 March 2002
Alresford 26 - 3 Paxton Pumas
Brockenhurst 7 - 74 Ellingham & Ringwood
Chineham 17 - 6 Verwood
Saturday, 9 March 2002
Chineham Home W/O Brockenhurst
Ellingham & Ringwood 13 - 6 Alresford
Paxton Pumas 14 - 7 Stoneham
D & W Division 2 South on 16th March 2002
Puddletown 5 Weymouth 64
Verwood beat New Milton III 12-0 in a very scrappy and ill tempered
match.
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Some pictures of Simon Banks and Roy Hammond's excursion to France last weekend are now available. See Pictures
A party of 16 from Verwood will be travelling up to HQ on 23rd March to see England play Wales. Those that are going on the mini bus will be hosted by London Welsh in the morning to watch the traditional Crawshay's game KO 11am. See Web Site of the Month
See also our own Exiles Page as there are a fair few in the Verwood Club.
Verwood's game against Puddletown was cancelled on 2nd March. We are all intrigued to find out how Simon Banks got on with his £7 tickets for the France England game.
February 2002
Verwood secured their largest League win on Saturday 23rd
February beating Brockenhurst 58-17
Our thanks to Lynda O'Brien for the pictures
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See Match Report Pictures & League Table
Other results from Hampshire 3:
Stoneham Park 7 Ellingham & Ringwood 16
Alresford 56 Chineham 10
Richard Shore (the Dorset & Wilts training officer) gave a very helpful presentation to the players prior to the training session on Thursday 21st February. He explained the more troublesome laws ie tackle area, ruck/maul and there was a question & answer session.
Verwood lost at home to Southampton III 29-12 on Saturday 16th February.
See Match Report & Pictures
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See Southampton RFC
Verwood lost away to Paxton Pumas 18-7 on 9th February. This was an
immense performance by the Club against second place Paxton as Verwood
played with 14 men including Chairman Ken Banks (seen below) and Secretary
Andy Hoggins - talk about putting the Club first!
See Match Report and League
Table As to Photos, our touchline photographer was in artistic mode
see below:
But their are a couple in the changing room of Darren Kendall and Phil Emery (the one of Dave Hockaday was censored)
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Verwood secured the double over Poole at their wind swept Turlin Moor ground 12-10 on Saturday 2nd February. See Match Report
Verwood are no longer bottom of Hampshire three following a series of points deductions.
January 2002
Verwood lost at home to Oakmeadians III 7-10 on Saturday 19th January. See Match Report and Pictures
Verwood lost their first League game of 2002 away to Alresford on Saturday 12th January 35-0. See Match Report
Click below to visit Alresford RFC's Web Site
The other matches in Hampshire 3 on 12th January were:
A.C. Delco 11 - 10 Brockenhurst
Paxton Pumas 6 - 16 Ellingham &
Ringwood
Ian Mackrell has finally decided to hang up his boots but we still expect him to prop up the bar.
Verwood lost 17-59 to Lychett Minster on Saturday 5th January. See Match Report
See our Club News from August to December 2001 and January to July 2001
For Club News from 2000 click on Archive