Sussex Rugby - Heathfield & Waldron RFC

	Monday, May 15, 2006

Club AGM 13/06/2006

This year's AGM is taking place on Tuesday 13th June 2006 at 1930 in the Clubhouse.

Please can all members spread the word and make every effort to attend.

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5/15/2006 11:53:34 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

	Monday, May 08, 2006

Club Dinner Dance 24/06/2006

The annual dinner dance is being held this year on Saturday 24^th June 2006 at the Cavendish Hotel, Eastbourne and we hope that you will join us in supporting this event.

Cost per person for the evening is £38.00 and tables will be set for 10, but if you need 12, let me know and we will get this sorted.

The evening will begin at 7.30pm for 8.00pm with dancing until 1.00am when a C&S carriage will arrive to take you home in style (although some of you won’t notice if it was stylish or not!) with the dress code, as in previous years, being black tie.

We have reserved a limited number of rooms at the hotel which can be reserved by contacting the hotel directly on 01323 410222. Please let them know that you are with the HWRFC as we have a discounted price for the rooms.

Paid up Club members and VP’s should have received a letter with all the details by now but if you haven’t and you need a menu or more details please contact Amanda Collins or Ron Powell on 01435 869006 (Mon-Fri daytime).

All completed forms for the meal/wine/coach MUST be returned by Friday 9^th June as we have to advise the hotel of our requirements by the 10^th.

Amanda Collins

	Saturday, May 06, 2006

Rob Streeter Testimonial pictures

Thanks to Debbie Green for the photos

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5/6/2006 3:55:05 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

	Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Uckfield Sevens report

A talented squad of Heathfield players reached the semi-finals of the Uckfield sevens on Sunday. Under the banner of the Blackboys Inn but unmistakable in their Greenies shirts Dave Jones’s team won their group comfortably beating a Haywards Heath 2nd team in the process. In the quarter final they overwhelmed a Hellingly team with a stunning display of sevens, scoring ten or more tries. Their run was halted in the semis by a fit and experienced Haywards Heath 1st 7 masquerading as the Road Runners.

Coach Jones deserves huge credit for teaching our Heathfield lads the art and tactics of sevens and they provided excellent entertainment for the large number of Heathfield supporters. The players all contributed splendidly and all scored a handful of tries. Bryn Jones and the Pestell brothers clearly enjoyed the openings offered by sevens and the young flyers provided the speed to finish movements. Sadly one of the speedsters, Joe Riley, was injured in the pool games and could not take part in the latter stages of the competition.

The highlight of the afternoon for your correspondent was the Willis side step which involves eliminating the marker altogether before leaving him in a heap and then crossing the tryline. Levi and big Jim Cumming provided the power and bulk to the squad but both showed good turns of speed and along with their colleagues seemed to thoroughly enjoy the day. Thank you Dave and thanks to the Squad. You did the club and the pub proud.

Squad: Bryn Jones, Matt Walker, Damian Pestell, Bruce Pestell, Seb Jones, Lee Vockins, Kobe Tonkin, Jim Cumming, Levi Willis, Peter Philippou, Joe Riley, Charlie Jones

Report by: Mike de St Croix

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5/2/2006 11:48:41 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

	Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Well done Jerry!

Congratulations to VP Jerry Hodgson for completing the London Marathon, as seen on BBC1 last night!

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4/25/2006 2:34:29 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

	Monday, April 24, 2006

U14's Paris Tour

The Junior section of Heathfield & Waldron Rugby Club have just returned from their 2006 tour to Paris and as well as enjoying some good rugby and comeradery, enjoyed 2 good afternoons at Disneyland.

The under 14 squad faired the best out of the 4 age groups who toured winning their group final 10-0 against The Perth Rugby Academy, The under 14's focused well and squeezed their opposition into submission.

On their way to the final they overcome strong teams but scored some classy tries from Matt Halls, Dayle Hollands, Nic Evans, Robert Horsfall Turner and Alex Scott. Some great team play too followed with some good running by Ben O'Connell and Josh Eaton with Pudsie Pring and Ben Davis doing the hard graft upfront.

In between games, the boys enjoyed squad training sessions with 3 British Lions consisting of Robert Jones the ex Wales Scrum half and current Lions, Brent Cockbain and No.8 Ryan Jones.

But it was the Final match where the under 14's really knuckled down and played possibly their best rugby of the season. The forwards looked after the possession well with superb driving play particularly by Tom Keylock, Larry Platt, Ben Darcy, Halls and Hollands. The backs handling was good too with centres Imran Iqbal and Campbell Lacey combining well to give their wingers Peter Phair and Nic Evans good Ball. The tackling too was superb with Greg Salmon, Jake Tyler, Halls, Iqbal, Hollands and Lacey shining. The scrums were rock solid as ever, with Oliver Hancock and Tom Shrek ensuring the stable platform.

With Heathfield on the attack from the off, the Perth Side defended well for 15 minutes with last ditch tackles going in everywhere. But the opening score was one of the best and a team try with a bit of solo brilliance thrown in. From a Perth Scrum on their 20 metre line, Keylock hooked one against the head, Scrum half Will "pink hair" Chipchase passed to Jeremy Burdett. The ball went through the centres to wing Phair who was tackled. He managed to pop the pass back in side to Lacey who went to ground well setting up the ruck. Iqbal bridged and protected the ball for Salmon who spun back to Burdett. He dummied to Hancock then spun the ball to Hollands in midfield. His pass found wing Evans in loads of space. The brilliance then appeared. He went outside the first defender, inside the next, outside the next then accellerated inside the last one before touching down. A truly memorable try.

Half time came and Heathfield were not clear yet. Injuries started occuring and Heathfield lost their two flankers Hollands with a broken collar bone and Salmon who did one big tackle too many and injured himself.Chipchase injured his ankle and had to be carried off but was ably replaced by Elliott Marshall who also had a great game. The side juggled around with Alex Hope coming on at Hooker and Horsfall Turner in the Second Row. Thomas Pring came on at Prop and Jake Tyler on the wing.

The second try came once again from good team work. The ball was recycled way out on the right. Evans cut infield and fed Iqbal who fed Lacey and onto Phair whose run was cut short 5 metres from the Perth Line on the left. From the ensuing Perth Lineout, Ollie Hancock snatched the low throw and charged like an out of control bulldozer towards the line and scored to wrap the game up. Heathfield atet up the final minutes with brilliant driving play from Matt Halls who was one of the many "Players of the Tour"

Heathfield will enjoy their Team Awards Dinner on May 19th when the will look forward to an exciting season ahead.

Report by : U14 Management

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4/24/2006 7:11:29 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)

	Sunday, April 23, 2006

Heathfield & Waldron U16's/ U17's 27 Edenbridge U16's/U17's 5

Heathfield put out a mainly U16 side with 5 U17s versus a bigger looking Kent side but still put in a convincing performance to run out winners by 5 tries to 1.

With 24 players to choose from it was agreed that the match would be played in 4 x 20 minutes sessions so that everyone got a good run out. Heathfield started well with a well worked lineout move which saw Sean Dorrill peel round the front to score. Some indifferent forward play gave the visitors the chance to equalise but some great backs moves saw the flying winger Tom Hollyman crash over in the corner to give Heathfield a 10-5 interval lead in a tight first half.

The second half saw a tactical substitution with Tom “The Hitman” Rickman coming into Hooker and winning some good ball, coupled with excellent lineout throwing gave the home side the upper hand. Centre Ross Riley extended the lead with a breakaway try after a superb crunching tackle by Baz Hunt and then power house Dan Rumsey crashed over under the posts for Tom Ingram to slot the extra points.

By now the home side were becoming rampant and some great runs were made by the backs with support from the forwards ensuring continuity. Hollyman scored near the end in the corner to persuade the coaches that he should share the Man of the Match award with Tom Rickman.

The only area of concern were heavy injuries to Dom Hodge and Josh Jackson and both are doubtful as the U16s travel to Worthing for the Sussex 7s next weekend.

Head Coach Dickie Bird said “it was a wonderful performance and augers well for next season when the guys will play a mixture of U17 and U18 fixtures. It was the first time this season that the backs looked in full control and with Chris Salmon to return as backs coach we should enter 2006/7 full of confidence.