Walsall Rugby Football Club

Walsall v Leek - Saturday 5th September 2019

3pm Kick off

Staffs Cup First Round

MIDLANDS 2 WEST (NORTH)

P W D L PF PA PD BP PTS

BURNTWOOD

CAMP HILL

CREWE & NANTWICH

LEEK

LONGTON

MOSELEY OAK

NEWCASTLE (STAFFS)

SHREWSBURY

STAFFORD

TAMWORTH

WALSALL

WOLVERHAMPTON

Welcome to Walsall RFC

Good afternoon and welcome to all members and visitors to Walsall Rugby Club. I hope you enjoy today’s game and the traditional rugby hospitality in the club and at the bar! We continue this season in Midlands 2 West (North), renewing old rivalries with Longton and welcoming Burntwood and Moseley Oak to Delves Road for the first time in the league. For 2019-20 Geraint Tilllott as DoR and playing Head Coach Jon Ford continue in their roles, supported by Mark Gilbert and Rich Henwood. On the pitch Captain Roger Weston continues in his role sup-ported by new Vice-captain Tom Aston. I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing them all the best for the season. Off the pitch our sincere best wishes go to Frances Southall who has left the role of Club Steward after 5 years. Kenny Wallace has been appointed in her place, who I’m sure you will support in your capacity to enjoy a drink at the bar. We also welcome Demi Shilton who will be providing the food offering at the club. We have also made significant strides regarding the club infrastructure. The development plans have been accepted by the RFU and planning permission has been granted. The funding plan has been outlined for seeking grants and fund aid from the supporting organisations, but importantly also members. Please take the time to look at the plans and where possible can I encourage you to support the fund raising effort, either financially or if you are have ideas or are prepared to spend time helping as part of the house, development or other committees please get involved.

Finally, to all those who volunteer and help at the club in any capacity, thank you. Without your time and commitment the club would not be able to function and provide the excellent sporting and social base for a game that I, and I’m sure you all, enjoy and love. Here’s to a great season, a great day, a great game and win or lose, an en-

joyable drink or two with a few friends.

Cheers,

Tim

Staffordshire Cup - ROUND 1

We welcome the players, officials and supporters of Leek Rugby Club back to Delves Road for the Staffordshire Cup fixture this afternoon. We also welcome our members back to the club for the first 1st XV home game of the season, the 2nd XV are on the bottom pitch playing Stratford in a friendly before their league begins next week. We hope you all enjoy the afternoon.

Our Referees this afternoon are Carl Pearce from Staffordshire Referee Society for the 1st XV and Nigel Evans from North Mids Referee Society on the bottom pitch. Hopefully they enjoy the afternoon and a great game!

The raffle will be drawn after the game in the clubhouse.

Club Events

There are some events planned for the new season, more will be added. Please keep checking the website and Facebook for updates and support when you can!

Sunday 22nd September Bring a Friend to training 10am

Sunday 22nd September England v Tonga 11.15am

Saturday 5th October England v Argentina 9am

Saturday 12th October England v France Brunch 9am

Sat/Sun 26th/27th October World Cup Semi Final 9am

Saturday 2nd November World Cup Final 9am

Friday 8th November Fireworks Extravaganza 6pm

Sunday 10th November Remembrance Sunday 11am

Wednesday 18th December Christmas Carolers 6pm

Sunday 22nd December Children's Christmas Party 12 noon

Thrusday 26th December Boxing Day Game v QMGS OB 12 noon

100+ Club

Be a part of the 100+ Club and be in with a chance of winning £100,£50, £25 or £10 quarterly with a bonus £250 in

December.

£20 paid for the year.

It can be paid in cash annually or £5 per quarter via SO.

Please speak to Jo or Mick Broadhurst and they will be happy to sign you up!

Easyfundraising –

When you shop online you could be raising much needed funds for the club, without incurring any cost to yourself! All you have to do is register with easyfundraising and then shop as normal.

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/walsallrufc/

Follow us @WalsallRFC

BEAR FACTS

Leading Appearances of Current Players up to end of last season

Roger Weston 193, Simon Weaver 172, Daniel Simpson 162, Mike Benson 151, Jamie Hickman 134

Career Records (League)

Most Appearances: Roger Weston - 164

Walsall RFC League Record

P W D L F A

664 316 14 320 14614 14453

Age Grade Rugby

We look forward to the official start of the Age Grade Season tomorrow morning. All age groups are training - Under 7’s—12’s girls and boys and Under 13’s—16’s boys are training at 10.30am. The Under 17’s and Colts will play in a controlled training game at 11am.

The Under 13’s. 15’s and 18’s Girls train at 12.30.

On 22nd September training will be at 10am - 11am for the Under 6’s - U13’s and it is also the Bring a Friend Sunday. Any player who brings a friend to the session and they sign up will receive a rugby ball from the club as a thank you.

England play Tonga in the World Cup at 11.15am. All players and parents are invited to watch the game at the club.

Mixed Touch Rugby.

Mixed Touch is on Monday evenings from 6.30pm. All welcome, female and male, Aged 15+ players, returners, never played before; for fun and fitness. If you are interested please contact Nick Rose on 07920 595291

The Captain’s View

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking time to read today’s match day programme. I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Leek's players and supporters on behalf of the Walsall squad. It's always exciting heading into a new season, going into the un-known and flip-flopping between optimism and pessimism! Our pre-season has been as productive as it could have been, with the squad being fitter, stronger and deeper than it has been for a very long time. Over the past couple of weeks we have played friendlies away against Veseyans and Droitwich. We proved far too strong for Veseyans, coming away with a 62-5 victory. More impressive was our performance in a 29-19 defeat to Droitwich, who are playing level 6 rugby next season. Despite missing five first-team regulars, we com-peted physically and looked dangerous throughout. It's great our young squad developing and making strides forwards. As far as aims for the season go, we know that this is still a squad in its infancy but we also know that showing progression is essential. We lost a lot of games last season by less than a score, and learning how to close those games out is essential. We also know that scrap-ping around in the bottom half of the table isn't where we should be, given the emerging talents that we have. Personally I’d love for us to finish in the top half this season, and to start to turn Delves Road back into a difficult away game for all of our opponents. I look forward to reacquainting myself with some familiar faces in the bar after the game, after a long summer away. Cheers! Roger

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15 Roger Weston

14 Chev Taylor

13 Nico Watkins

12 Rob Angell

11 Adam Tamilio

10 Will Hennessy

9 Dan Carpenter

1 Pete Fitzgerald

2 Tom Aston

3 Simon Weaver

4 Louise Vale

5 Michael Lockett

6 George Perkins

7 Matt James

8 Hal Gozucukuk

16 Dan Poston

17 Joe Brookes

18 Jack Crowhurst

WALSALL RFC

15 Jack Newton-Taylor

14 Sam Brereton

13 George Hunt

12 Tom Scragg

11 Kini Buli

10 Sam Hunt

9 Dan Needham

1 Lewis Dunleavy

2 Ed Cheadle

3 Bobby Cheadle

4 Luke Hardern

5 Jake Bainbridge

6 Billy Kidd

7 Reece Milner

8 Joel Booth

16 Luke Granger

17 Tom Fairhurst

18 Dan Sherratt

LEEK RUFC

Date Opponent Venue Result Score 24-Aug F Veseyans Away W 5-62

31-Aug F Droitwich Away L 29-19

07-Sep C Leek Home

14-Sep L Camp Hill(A) Away

21-Sep C Old Laurentians H Home

28-Sep L Crewe & Nantwich(H) Home

05-Oct L Leek(A) Away

12-Oct

19-Oct L Longton (H) Home

26-Oct L Moseley Oak(A) Away

02-Nov

09-Nov L Newcastle(H) Home

16-Nov L Shrewsbury(A) Away

23-Nov L Stafford(H) Home

30-Nov

07-Dec L Tamworth (A) Away

14-Dec L Wolverhampton(A) Away

21-Dec L Burntwood(H) Home

28-Dec

04-Jan L Crewe & Nantwich(A) Away

11-Jan L Leek(H) Home

18-Jan

25-Jan L Longton (A) Away

01-Feb L Moseley Oak(H) Home

08-Feb

15-Feb L Newcastle (A) Away

22-Feb L Shrewsbury(H) Home

29 Feb L Stafford(A) Away

07-Mar

14-Mar

21-Mar L Tamworth (H) Home

28-Mar L Wolverhampton(H) Home

04-Apr L Burntwood(A) Away

11-Apr Easter Saturday

18-Apr L Camp Hill(H) Home

25-Apr End of Season Ball

DEVELOPMENT

The development of our six changing rooms to RFU standards with integral showers

and toilets will be done in three phases and will entail an extension to the clubhouse

to accommodate new toilets, office, storage and entrance hall. The RFU are keen to

support this development through the provision of interest free loans so that the work

can begin as soon as possible. We have to pay back the loans and also raise more

funds ! We are going to do this by arranging fund raising events and by making indi-

vidual pledges.

The pledges will be of £2 a week for 10 years. We will need just over one hundred

pledges in place to secure the first loan, with gift aid the £96 a year is increased to

£120, the ten year pledge then becomes £1200. Please look at the board in the en-

trance hall for more information and help yourself to a leaflet.

If you have any ideas on how to raise more funds by organising events or any other

means please speak to Tim Smith, Dave Rogers or Martin McCluney.

We are looking at organising sponsored events with the Senior players and also in-

volve the Mini and Juniors—if you have any fantastic ideas, please get in touch!

World Cup matches will be oninthe club, please come and watch them with us!