NEWS
16 March - Jared, one of our Under 13s will be getting his haircut to raise funds for Matt Hampsons Trust during the Tigers course. If you'd like to support "Mophead" to get a haicut please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Mophead-gets-a-haircut
16 March - PLEASE SEE THE COACHING CO-ORDINATORS NEWSLETTER and also a vacancy for Communication Manager for ECRU
16 March - SENIORS - Both the first and second teams recorded wins over Fakenham. The 1sts winning 97-7 and the seconds 20-17.
16 March - YOUTH - Pictures from the Under 15 game against Holt can be seen HERE
16 March - MINIS - The only report for the Diss festival so far is from the Under 7s who won their age group. The report is HERE and photos of the team are HERE
8 March - Match report for Under 13s HERE and Under 15s HERE
7 March - Pictures from the matchs Saturday can be found HERE
7 March - The under 13 and under 15 teams both played Spalding at home. In very physical games they recorded losses of 41-12 (Under 13s) and 34-7 (Under 15s). Reports to follow. Under 15 some of the pictures are HERE and HERE
26 February - Club newsletter now avaliable - email Spike for a copy
21 February - Pictures from the second's game are HERE. All youth and mini matches on Sunday fell foul of the snow.
14 February - Good result for U13s against Bury - report to follow. Under 15s beat Dereham 36 -5 excellent squad performance - report to follow but pictures from the game are HERE
9 February - Match report for Under 12 games can be found HERE. The Under 15's won against L&Y 21-7 and their match report can be found HERE and the Under 13s finally managed to play Walsham in the cup after they located a referee.
5 February - The club has been awarded some funding from the Breckland Youth Council for our youngsters to run a project. Three young players - Joe Milligan, Emily Davis and Bruce Whitehead faced a Dragon's Den style panel where they had to present plans, costs and benefits in order to bid for funding. They were successful and details fo the funding and project will appear soon. The project will be wholly run by these young players together with some of their team mates.
5 February - UPDATED YOUTH & MINI SECTION FIXTURES
26 January - The weekend saw the first team winning at Lakenham and Hewit. The Under 13s cup game didn't happen as the hosts were unable to secure a referee. The Under 14s lost to Beccles in a close match in the cup and the Under 16s lost to Lowestoft and Yarmouth in a well contested and very physical match. The mini section hosted Stowmarket and Holt and match reports will follow.
FOR ATTENTION OF YOUTH AND MINI TEAMS - UPDATED FIXTURES ARE HERE
18 January - Not much rugby has happened recently due to the snow and now the amount of water on the pitches but the first team recorded an excellent 25-0 win at Dereham just before Christmas. Given the conditions and the avaliability on the day this was all the more pleasing.
Members should be seeing a letter about a forthcoming VP's diner as well as a newsletter. The newsletter will be avaliable in the club house or if you would like an email version please contact SPIKE
30 December - Hope you all had a brilliant Christmas. ECRU have sent their monthly update out this morning and it can be seen HERE
24 November - Youth fixtures including cup matches now updated on the youth fixtures page. This weekend sees the club hosting the
Prima Tiger Cup Under 10s competition. 12 squads from across Eastern Counties will take part and look to win a place playing at
Welford Road in the National Quarter finals.
17 November - News of social events -
Saturday 19th December - Stars In Your Eyes night - 7pm 'til late. £6 Adults, £4 Juniors (Under 18). The evening format is as follows: 10-12 Acts, then a buffet and break, then judges decision, followed by a disco through to the small hours!
Sunday 27th December - The Big Game 2 - Bus departs Swaffham RUFC at 10am to travel to Twickenham for Harlequins vs. London Wasps (4pm KO). Total cost for return coach journey and match ticket is £35.
15 November - Youth - U13s lost to Norwich as did the U15s - Match reports to follow
4 November - Mini section match reports from a very wet Holt festival are on their page
1 November - Under 15s win at Dereham (Match report on their page and pictures vis their blogsite).
29 October - Under 15s win at Holt (Match report on their page and pictures via their blogsite). Also on Sunday Des was awarded with a RFU branded Hoody as recognition of the work he has put in for the club. Well done Des! Picture HERE
20 October - Club Co-ordinator Newsletter - worth a read
20 October - Pictures from the 1st's match against Mistley - HERE
20 October - The Under 13s have formed links with Watton and Dereham recently with boys from all three clubs forming a team to play against Newmarket and Lowestoft & Yarmouth. All three clubs need players in order to field full squads and as we all focus on recruitment this arrangement allows the boys to get valuable game time. Fakenham should also be involved in this arrangement soon.
20 October - Rugby Ready course (pre-requisite to the Level 1 course) being held at the club on Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 - most coaches aware but some spaces still available. Contact spike.
20 October - Mini section results from the West Norfolk festival are available HERE
14 October - 3 X £52 Tickets to England V Wales are available to paid up club members - game 6 Feb 2010
Contact Mike Pond - 01362 697412 / 07970 663751 - mikepond@tiscali.co.uk
10 October - Senior teams table links added to their pages. See the following link for an update from Andy Sarek from the RFU Council
6 October - Mini section reports and Under 15 match report on their pages. Also pictures from 1st and 2nd XV can be found HERE
26 September - First team win at home against Broadland 15 - 10. Pictures thanks to Sam are HERE
20 September - First team lose 14 - 17 and Second team win 69-0 against Watton. Pictures from Second team match HERE
16 September - MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
In the light of further increases in alcohol prices charged by the breweries earlier this year, the club committee have no option but to pass on some of this increase.
However, we have decided to instigate a system whereby those who pay their memberships are rewarded for their loyalty, and feel the best way is by keeping prices to members as low as possible and to enable this to happen we will be issuing membership cards this year which will entitle the bearer to membership rates in both the bar and the club shop.
MEMBERSHIP CARDS 2009/10 SEASON
Orange Cards will be issued to members who are over 17 at the start of the season.
Blue cards will be issued to junior / mini player members who are below that age at the start of the season.
A Family Membership will initially receive one card of each colour. (Extra cards can be issued on request).
As from November 1st this year, all Members will be asked to show their card when buying drinks from the Bar, or purchasing equipment from the shop in order to qualify for membership rates.
If you do not have a card with you - you will still be served, but will be charged non-members rates.
You will either not be served alcoholic drinks if you do not have an Orange Card or if you are old enough you will be charged the non-members rate.
If you lose your card it will not be replaced.
13 September - 1st team beat Mildenhall 38-0. Sam's pictures of the match can be seen HERE
7 September - Saturday saw the 2nds run out against Watton in a close match which finished Swaffham 12 - Watton 18. Sam was on hand with his camera and has captured the action which can be viewed HERE
6 September -
Swaffham, under the leadership of new skipper Louis Gunnell, began the 2009 season in fine style by winning the Cambridge round of the national Heineken Tens tournament at their first attempt. The aim was to use the event as a fitness session in preparation for the new league season, but after they were victorious in their first two games against Colchester and Holt having amassed over 60 points with no reply, their competitive spirit kicked in.
A fine draw against Bury St Edmunds guaranteed their place in the top two of the group, and the players then eased off in the final game losing by 20 points to Cambridge. Finishing second in the group gave them a tie against Shelford in the Cup semi-final. It looked like a game they were unlikely to win, as Shelford had finished top of their group amassing a total of over 160 points in four games. However, Swaffham played their own style of rugby and some excellent defensive work kept the young guns down to just three tries and a conversion, in reply to Swaffhams three tries and two conversions. This gave them a superb 19-17 victory and a place in the final. Shelford, the organisers, and most of the partisan crowd were surprised, but Swaffham had achieved their final place through excellent team work and support play, rather than individual brilliance.
The final was against Esculodians, an invitational side, brought up for the day from London, and Swaffham knew that to play an open game against a side full of pacy ball players would be asking for trouble. With that in mind the crowd were treated to some awesome offloads, and possession rugby from Swaffham and they spent nearly 10 of the first twelve minutes with the ball in the oppositions half. During that period both sides scored converted tries leaving the half time score finely balanced at 7-7. In the second half it was the professional side that started to wane and some strong driving play by the Swaffham forwards, eventually made the space for DJ Barnard to score under the posts for the winning try. Esculodians tried to fight back at the end but their handling let them down and Swaffham ended the game deep in opposition territory and with a 14-7 advantage. It’s a good job Carlsberg don’t do rugby!
WELL DONE BOYS!
1 September - Pictures from Thursday night's match against THETFORD are avaliable HERE - Thanks as ever to Sam for the pictures.
1 September - The 6 NATIONS - 2010 is on the horizon and via the club you can apply for tickets to;
1 August - Pictures from the final day of the 2009 Tigers course can be found HERE. The club would like to thank DMA, Waitrose and Norfolk Farm Produce who supplied all the food for the 5 days and special thanks to Waitrose who made sure the the players had drinks after there was a water mains burst outside the club. They supplied 100 Litres of bottled water to ensure the players could continue with their rugby.
31 July 2009 - Pictures from Day 4 of the Tigers course can be found HERE day 5 will follow shortly. The course is over now, huge thanks to Tigers, their coaches and Sammy for patching all the boys up. Massive thanks to all those who helped out on the days in the kitchen and to Kev and T for making wonderful food. More details will follow.
29 July 2009 - Pictures from Day 3 of the Tiger's course can be found HERE
28 Juy 2009 - Pictures from Day 2 of the Tiger's course can be found HERE
27 July 2009 - Pictures from Day 1 of the Tiger's course can be found HERE
23 July 2009 - The Tigers course for 2009 has sold out. Daily updates and pictures will be posted from Monday.
21 July 2009 - Youth (open age group) training Thursday evening from 7pm and also Sunday morning. Tigers course starts Monday 27th July.
14 July 2009 - Please note that there is no mini or youth training on Sunday 19th July. Please pass this on.
06 July 2009 - ATTENTION INTERNATIONAL TICKETS - England V Australia (7 Nov 09) & England V NZ (21 Nov 09) The club has been allocated for the above games, at Twickenham. The price catergories are £71, £60, £52 & £41.
If you wish to apply for tickets you need to provide a personal cheque for the total of your requirement made payable to Swaffham RUFC (and be a member of the club). If the demand exceeds the supply names will be entered into a draw and unsuccessful applicants will have cheques returned.
Contact Mike Pond by end of July at the Latest - 3 George Borrow Road, Dereham, NR19 1HH / 01362 697412 / mikepond@tiscali.co.uk
29 June 2009 - Youth & Mini open training session this Sunday morning 10:30AM. Feel free to bring a friend!
25 June 2009 - Membership forms for 2009-10 are HERE - Please complete and return to Michelle. Please note LATE Payment Charge!!
14 June 2009 - The club AGM is on this Thursday evening at 7:30pm - Please try to attend!
14 June 2009 - There are a few spaces left on the Tigers course - Call Spike for details
09 May 2009 - DAVID ROUTLEDGE
It is with much sadness and deepest regret that the Club announces the demise of David Routledge on Monday 4th May 2009. David had been bravely fighting a debilitating illness for a number of weeks past but still insisted on seeing his close relatives and friends whenever possible and his diminishing strength allowed, always extending his customary cheerful and warm welcome.
David, who joined Swaffham RUFC as a founder member in 1981 was also a Club Trustee. He was a devoted servant of the Club for almost 28 years, serving on the club committee and as President, Chairman, Secretary and, in recent years, as Vice-Presidents Secretary.
David also spent many years teaching science at Swaffham Hamonds High School and was a Deputy Head Teacher, on his retirement some six or seven years ago.
A pint on a Saturday afternoon, in season, will just not be the same, without his cheerful demeanour; his willingness to talk to and encourage all and his warm 'Geordie' humour.
The Club extends sincere condolences to his wife Margaret and Michael and Jane, his two children.
God Bless you Dave.
27 April 2009 - Mini / Youth fixtures for 2009/10 are HERE
23 March 2009 - Under 14s match report HERE and the first team semi final cup match report is HERE and pictures one and two
22 March 2009 - Senior match photos HERE and HERE, and under 14s are on the blogsite
18 March 2009 - Match reports for 1st XV, Under 15s annd Under 14s from the weekend. Click the team to read the reports. Also as an update Kelsey McTaggart, mentioned below, who suffered a brain haemmorage is breathing unaided and showing positive signs of recovery, obviously our best wishes go out to her and her family.
17 March 2009 - Pictures from U15 cup semi final - HERE
11 March 2009 - 1st team match report - HERE
10 March 2009 - The club would like to thank Malcolm, Des, Rod, Stretch, Woody and Spike for helping out at a number of school events over the last few weeks. These events have led to a number of new players coming along to the club and helping raise the profile of what we do within our community. If anyone would like to assist in any future please talk to one of the committee.
8 March 2009 - Sunday saw the U14s play at Bury and the match report is HERE. Some of our girls were involved in the Eastern Counties game and a report can be found HERE. THe 2nds won well against Fakenham with reports showing a 84-0 victory. The Under 12's won the Diss festival and the report is HERE, the Under 8's also won their age group and reports are HERE and the under 7's report is HERE. The Under 9s' report is HERE
On another note the club would like to pass our thoughts and best wishes to Kelsey McTaggart - one of our Under 15 girls who suffered a brain haemmorage on Tuesday and is currently in Addenbrookes hospital.
3 March 2009 - On Sunday the club played host to an Under 18 girls match between Letworth and Suffolk Sabres - Kelsey & Alex from Swaffham played for Sabres. A match report can be found HERE together with an update on the injury which saw the Air Ambulance landing on our pitch.
1 March 2009 - Pictures from the Under 15s match against Wymondham HERE. The pictures from the firsts and seconds home games from yesterday can be found HERE. PLEASE NOTE THE SPECIAL PICTURE OF OUR LEADER.
24 February 2009 - The 2nds play Marham Wednesday night under floodlights PLEASE CAN AND SUPPORT THE TEAM. 7:00PM at the club.
24 February 2009 - Please see HERE for a message from Mike Pond (Organiser) regarding the clubs results for the RFU GRAND DRAW.
24 Feruary 2009 - All clubs have received THIS LETTER from Huw Davies who is responsible for discipline for Eastern Counties. PLEASE READ IT. As Youth Chairman Spike has spoken with Eastern Counties regarding this letter and whilst any abuse of any official is unacceptable the point was raised that given the numbers involved this is a very small level issue. For example 40 Red Cards of which 25% relate to the youth game (10) of which 30% are for abuse of the official (3). Most clubs have 4 youth age groups and if we assume that each age group has 25 players that is 100 players per club per week. With 30+ clubs in Eastern Counties that is 3000 players per week or 30,000 over 10 weeks which means that the level of Red Cards is 0.0001%. HOWEVER LETS ENSURE WE ARE NOT THE 4TH CLUB THEY NEED TO SPEAK TO!
22 February 2009 - The Under 14s match report is HERE. Pictures from the 2nd team match from 21 February can be found HERE
17 February 2009 - In a period where rugby has fallen foul of the weather there has been little to report but the 2nd's page has now been updated with their recent scores. News also reaches us of the Under 15's success in the Norfolk Cup beating Lowestoft & Yarmouth in the quarter final stage - hopefully a report to follow.
2 February 2009 - Pictures from the Broadland game including the 'Air Morrissey' shot can be found HERE. This weekend's Norfolk cup games saw the Under 13's lose to West Norfolk and the Under 14s lose 24-12 to Norwich. Match reports to follow.
27 January 2009 - First team report is HERE.
25 January 2009 - The Under 14's played Dereham and the match report can be found HERE. Reports of a first team win against Broadland and the second's only just lossing out at UEA should follow. Sadly all the mini age groups (away at wymondham) together with the two cup matchs (Under 13 & Under 15) which were due to be played at home had to be cancelled as teams fell foul of the weather.
20 January 2009 - The Under 13's have played against Fakenham this weekend and their match report can be found HERE. The 1st XV report can be found HERE. The club also hosted a match between our Under 14s and West Norfolk which saw the visitors take the game. During the afternoon the county Under 14 selection took place on one pitch with most of the girls playing for the Norfolk Nomads against Fakenham. Sadly Fakenham's players 'forgot' about the game but the 20 girls who turned out for the Nomads enjoyed a game of 10s.
5 January 2009 - Firstly Happy New Year to you all, hope you had a good Christmas. This weekend was a bit of a wash out with the weather giving us frozen pitches after weeks of muddy ones. The 2nds played Norwich Union and lost away from home 8 - 25. The under 13s were cancelled at home and most of the minis also fell foul of the frost. The under 8s have a report which can be seen HERE.
ALSO Swaffham RUFC are now on FACEBOOK and can be found HERE (You need a facebook log on to access this)
22 December 2008 - Pictures from both the first's and second's matches from Saturday are HERE. Thanks to Sam for another excellent set of pictures. All the very best for Christmas and see you all in 2009.
14 December 2008 - Pictures from the second's game against Walsham are HERE. The firsts won in the cup, report to follow. Mini section and Under 14s were victims of the weather with games cancelled due to pitch conditions. Some of the girls played for Eastern Counties today and report will follow on that too.
6 December 2008 - Pictures from Tuesday's win at Thetford are HERE and today's first team match at Dereham HERE and the second's against Wymondham HERE
30 November 2008 - Pictures from the 2nd's game against Dereham (Swaffham 10 - Dereham 13) are HERE
18 November 2008 - 1st XV match report posted on their page. The Under 15's report is also on their page.
18 November 2008 - Pictures from the weekend's 1st XV game are HERE and the 2nd XV game are HERE. Also the results from the 2nd's game and Under 17 matches have been posted and the Under 14 match report is up too.
9 November 2008 - Pictures from the weekend's game are HERE
3 November 2008 - The Under 8 team won the Holt Development festival. Well Done to the team and coaches. The report is HERE . The Under 14's match report is also available HERE. The last two results for the 2nd XV are on their page and match reports are also posted for the Under 17s
2 November 2008 - Pictures from the 2nd XV match HERE
21 October 2008 - 1st & 2nd reports, U17, U15, U14 additional, U13, U12 and Under 11 match reports posted
20 October 2008 - Details of 2009 Seniors tour - Click HERE
19 October 2008 - Pictures from 1st XV match HERE and Under 14 match report is posted.
15 October 2008 - Match report for Under 15 squad is posted. Check out the Notice Board for details of coaching coaches coming soon
14 October 2008 - Match reports are posted for the 2nd XV, Under 17, Under 14 & Under 13 squads.
7 October 2008 - Match reports are available for the 1st XV, 2nd XV, Under 17 squad, Under 14 squad and combined Under 7 & Under 8 match. With the weather at the weekend providing just a spot or two of rain the minis fixtures were slightly compromised with some age groups being called off by their hosts as the players were arriving. Further reports will be posted once submitted.
4 October 2008 - Pictures from today's first and second team matches are HERE & HERE
3 October 2008 - News of a couple of changes to the youth matches this weekend. Sadly Lowestoft & Yarmouth have cancelled the U13, U15 and U17 matches. The under 14 game is still on at Lowestoft & Yarmouth. The under 17s now have a home match against Diss kick off 10:30AM. The Under 15 squad will train and details for the Under 13s will appear soon.
29 September 2008 - Details of international tickets for 6Nations on the NOTICEBOARD page
28 September 2008 - Pictures from yesterday's first and second team matches are HERE & HERE
24 September 2008 - The Under 15 Match report is up. Click HERE
23 September 2008 - Nine girls from our squad have been selected as part of the Eastern Counties squads at Under 15 & Under 18 for the Sussex tournament this Sunday. They are;
U18's
Pippa Curtis
Alex Grant
Kelsey Davis
Chloe Cotton
U15's
Kelsey McTaggart
Emily Davis
Lydia Hooper
Katie Parke
Shelby Davis
Obviously well done to all of those selected and to those who on this occasion weren't selected. To those of you going to Crawley, have a good time and enjoy the games.
22 September 2008 - Firsts beat Hadleigh 36 - 17 away from home (excellent result boys - match report HERE), the seconds played away at Dereham and the verbal report was that Dereham won the match. However the seconds played well and had a good few passages of play (again match report to follow).
The Under 15 & Under 17 squads played hosts to Ely on Sunday and reports will follow.
The minis and other youth age groups trained and the Girls squad were all involved at selections for Eastern Counties and the club wishes them all the best for this as the first Eastern Counties squad of this session will be involved in matches this coming Sunday at Crawley.
15 September 2008 - Match report for the 1st XV match from Saturday is avaliable HERE together with some photos from the match HERE, thanks to Sam Knox - the one of Adam (Russell) Lamb is PRICELESS.
31 August 2008 - Sam Knox, a local photographer took pictures from the first match of the season which can be found HERE
27 August 2008 - New codes of conduct published on the PAPERWORK page. Please check them out
26 August 2008 - On Sunday 31 August 2008 the club will host a taster session for mini and youth age group players (both boys and girls) and looks forward to welcoming some new faces to the North Pickenham Road club.
21 August 2008 - NEW SEASON MEMBERSHIP FORM IS AVALIABLE CLICK HERE
21 August 2008 - A youth and mini's taster day will be held at the club on 31 August - This is a chance to come and have a go.
21 August 2008 - The close season has seen a lot of activity at the club with the removal of one of the trees from the car-park and surfacing work to other areas within the car-park resulting in a huge expansion in parking area. Also all the changing rooms have been re-painted and there is new flooring going down in the clubhouse itself.
England V Wales : SAT 6 Feb
England V Ireland : SAT 27 Feb
Tickets £71, £60, £52, £41
Contact MIKE POND :01362 697412 / 07970 663751 / mikepond@tiscali.co.uk
by no later than 14 OCT 09
All applications must be accompanied by a cheque for the full value payable to Swaffham RUFC and you must be a member of the club.
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