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Sunday 30th March 2008

Hitchin u17's 38 v Stevenage u17's 5

Honours even. What a difference a week makes! Last Sunday, we were throwing snowballs and playing on a carpet of white stuff in Lincolnshire. Today, a real hint of spring in the air and a feel- good factor at the club, with our Saxons producing their best win for a long time and the U17s beating St Evenage to win their league. Well done! Wasps even managed to reverse their defeat by Leicester last week and won at Welford Rd (1st time in 13 yrs) and Sarries walloped Leeds, with a number of our group present.

Change of opponents

3 XV now away to ROYSTON VETS [Stevenage game off]

Chris Jones

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For further information about the club awards dinner please Download file

We will be holding the Junior Awards Dinner on SUNDAY 20th April at 6.30 for 7.00 pm.

There have been changes to fixtures for Sat 29 March foir the 3's and 4's

The U7's and U8's teamed up on tour and had a great time in the snow !!! Well done to all the players. Match report below courtesy of Helen.

Kesteven were truly wonderful hosts on a very snowy Easter Sunday. Everyone made us feel extremely welcome and our U7s & U8s were delighted to have a fixture. A bulldog game started the proceedings to warm the children up and clear away some of the snow; adults were entertained by the comical comments made by the Kesteven coach. The game commenced and it was a fantastic team effort from all individuals; great passing, tagging, defence & support play in difficult conditions. Particular mention goes to George, as the youngest player, an U6, who was all over the pitch and threw his body on the line.

With the cancelled game at Cambridge and a weekend off for Easter it seems quite a while since we played any Rugby. Royston are due to visit this weekend.

Well I hope you all enjoyed your Easter weekend, a Sunday without rugby for most of us except for the small few, who braved the rain, wind and snow on the tour. By all accounts you all had a great time even considering the weather. Thanks to Tom and Helen for looking after you in my absence.

After the home internationals, and Easter, we are now back to selecting four sides.

If your name is down please confirm availability as soon as possible.We are aware that not all those selected in the lower sides will necessarily be available. The sooner we know the better !

Again. if you are available but not selected, please advise Chris Jones .

Chris Jones

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We didn't get to play much rugby (though one half more than the U12s at least) but what the kids got was perhaps a once in a lifetime chance to play in perfect snow on a large expanse of flat ground; and better than that to share it with their mates. And those are memories which will be priceless in years to come. This was an outstanding tour.

U10’s ON TOUR TO CAYTHORPE COURT PGL, LINCS, MARCH 2008.

Although this result may seem a disappointment, a number of factors need to be taken into account

HERTFORD 5/6 FRIENDLY AWAY

1:15 meet for a 3pm kick off

The following sides have been selected

'B' XV will be published later today

It was a strange and disappointing Sunday this week with no rugby following the washout of the Cambridge Festival. Rather frustrating as it would have been a good experience for us prior to the County Festival, but never mind, what can we do about the great British weather! Anyway back to team matters.

Hitchin secure their place in the Herts. Presidents Trophy Final after beating Verulamians
Sunday’s cold and wet weather were not the conditions for champagne rugby. However no one told Hitchin

Rain ruins Cambridge festival and Hitchin training.

Hitchin RFC Under 14s reached the final of the Hertfordshire County Plate competition with a fine 58-7 semi-final victory against Hertford B last Sunday after playing some exhilarating rugby.

3 XV MEET 12.OO KO I3.00

Chris Jones

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A tremendous morning of well contested rugby, with no quarter asked or given, and where ultimately the honours were even across both games.

Three disciplined performances. Three wins. Three clean sheets. Three Hitchin tries in each game with three forwards and three backs scoring. Need more be said? Job done – once, twice, three times.
NB Cambridge squad information is included at the end of the report.

1 XV game is on Sunday

Saturday - 2 XV to be arranged "watch this space !"

3 XV v. Black Horse [home] KO to be agreed. Trying for 1 pm, which will mean 12 noon meet. Again," watch this space"

Chris Jones

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Sunday 16th March

This week we have a festival at Cambridge. We are only able to take one team to this festival and the following players have been selected: -

Alex Baber-Norris, Ethan Brace, Connor Dudley, Rory Fookes, Sam Henshaw, Guy Honnywill, Milly Reece-Jones, Ciaran Sale and Naomh Taylor.

We entertained Leighton Buzzard this Sunday, in what was a slightly disjointed morning. The plan was for Leighton Buzzard to bring two teams, but they could only field the one side, so as we had three teams the plans we had for the morning unfortunately went out the window! In the end we decided to play a triangular fixture with our Panthers and Jaguars sides, but it meant unfortunately that our young less experienced side the Leopards had to make do with training matches. Not ideal, but I hope the experience of playing some training matches with the more experienced players was beneficial. In the main matches with Leighton Buzzard we came out unbeaten, with the Panthers winning their match and the Jaguars drawing a match they could have won.

Leighton Buzzard visit Hitchin and find mixed results.

Hitchin 2nd XV traveled to Barcelona for a very physical Greene King Super Premiere Merit table game against Poblenou Enginyers.

please see document below

Cheshunt 0 v Hitchin 31

1 XV away v. Sarecens Amateurs

Meet time & KO TBA

3 XV away v. Black Horse

Meet time 11.15 [KO 1 pm]

Venue TBA - might be Hertford

[2 XV away in Barcelona]

Chris Jones

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A good training session on Sunday as we focused on playing some small sided games and worked on some specific areas throughout the morning. The more experienced players concentrated on defence and stopping teams scoring, whilst the less experienced players developed their passing and support play. It was a very good morning and I was pleased with the improvement in the groups during the session.

Sunday was one of those so called “must win” games which define a season, winning for either team would make the rest of the season much more comfortable and certainly decide the pecking order for next season.

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Hitchin’s chances of gaining promotion all be it disappeared on Saturday when they lost at home to North London side Old Merchant Taylors.

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