Rugby for Girls in Essex

2008-02-14T07:51:00.002Z

Well done to all the Essex County Girls who represented East Region in Yorkshire at the weekend.
It was a weekend of mixed fortunes for the two age groups with the U18's going down 28-5 and the U15's winning 25-5.

U18's
Nat McClarnon (Capt)
Sarah Carmen
Rachel French
Emily Scott
Cherelle Alphonse
Charlie Micallef

U15's
Jess Harris
Ellie Martin
Megan Robson
Alex Grant
Lucie Wood
Layla Pickering
Abbie Cook
Maddy Lockwood
Olivia Stembridge
Yasmin Pemberton

Congratulations to Abbie and Olivia who both scored tries on their Regional Debut.

T- Birds Recruiting now!!!

2008-01-29T21:25:00.000Z

Change of the Guard at RFUW

2008-01-24T09:06:00.000Z

January 24th, 2008

This appeared on the Eastern Counties Blog today, and I am sure Vincent would not object to a bit of cut and pasting to acknowledge the service of someone who has done wonders for the Ladies and Girls game in this country.

Most of us at grassroots level know little if anything of who does what amongst the senior management of the RFUW.Yesterday, a change was announced which is worth recording.
Carol Isherwood is stepping down as Director of Rugby.

Why is this important to us? Two reasons:
Firstly, it is worth recording the departure of one of the longest serving and most dedicated servants of women’s rugby. Isherwood was a founding member of the RFUW in 1983 (i.e long before many of those who read this site were born!).
Her profile on the RFUW site includes the following information:
As a founding member of the RFUW in 1983, Carol Isherwood also sat as its first secretary. From there, she was appointed to a number of volunteer board roles over the next 15 years. Her achievements in sport are many, from working for the Westminster City Council for 10 years as the Sports Development Manager, to being the first Captain of the Women’s Great Britain Squad (1986) and the Women’s England Squad (1987). Carol is also a Level 3 coach, and has coached Richmond (girls, second and first teams), the South Division, England Emerging and the England Squad (Assistant Coach). Carol was recently awarded an OBE (2003) for Services to Women’s Rugby.
The other reason this change is worth marking, is Carol’s prime responsibility to
Direct and manage strategies for the development and growth of women and girls rugby.
Organisations change as they grow, and the RFUW’s capacity to support junior grassroots rugby has evolved and improved very swiftly over the last few years.
Given that “The RFUW Board will be reviewing the current staffing structures before any further announcements”, her departure seems bound to have further implications for our area of the game.
We wish her all the very best in whatever she does next.

Regional Selections

2008-01-22T11:18:00.000Z

Congratulations to all the Essex Girls who attended trials for the East region on sunday at Coopers Coborn School in Upminster.
The standard of Rugby this year is higher than ever and the Coaches had a difficult task in selecting the final 26 to make up this years squad.

Regional U18's

Cherelle Alphonse. (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Sarah Carmen. (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Rachel French. (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Natalie McClarnon. (Basildon RFC)
Charlie Micalef. (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Sophie Russell. (Basildon RFC)
Emily Scott. (Basildon RFC)
India Harvey. (Westcliff RFC)
Keziah Hopkins. (Westcliff RFC)
Dannie Harris (Westcliff RFC)

Regional U15's

Abbie Cook (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Alex Grant (Basildon RFC)
Jess Harris (Basildon RFC)
Jess Wilkins (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Frances (Basildon RFC)
Madeleine Lockwood (Basildon RFC)
Ellie Martin (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Layla Pickering (Rochford Hundred RFC)
Megan (Basildon RFC)
Olivia Stembridge (Romford & Gidea Park RFC)
Lucie Wood (Basildon RFC)
Yasmin Pemberton (Rochford Hundred RFC)

Well done to all the girls.

Well Done Essex U15's

2007-12-04T11:34:00.000Z

This season the U15's produced some excellent rugby whilst playing in County Colours.

The Girls played 10 Games in total (5 of which were at the County Festival)

In those 10 games they suffered only 1 defeat which was against a well drilled Herts side.

This year the forwards have grown in stature, and in 99% of their games have totally dominated their opponents.
The Backs have shown that they can compete against anyone and on sheer pace and handling have left many opponents in their wake.

In their 10 games they have scored 235 points and only had 25 scored against them.

Results

Essex 51 Berkshire 5
Essex 10 Kent 5
Essex 51 Kent B 0
Essex 19 Eastern Counties 0
Essex 15 Middlesex 5
Essex 44 Leicestershire 0
Essex 0 Herts 10
Essex 10 Oxfordshire 0
Essex 17 Middlesex 0
Essex 36 Berkshire 0

Essex Squad 2007/8

Ellie Martin Rochford RFC
Jess Harris Basildon RFC
Alice Wright Basildon RFC
Megan Robson Basildon RFC Captain
Frances Hughes Basildon RFC
Alex Grant Basildon RFC
Layla Pickering Rochford RFC
Yasmin Pemberton Braintree RFC
Lucie Wood Basildon RFC
Jessica Wilkins Rochford RFC
Abbie Cook Rochford RFC
Maddy Lockwood Basildon RFC
Emma Dorrington Rochford RFC
Olivia Stembridge Romford RFC
Anna Roberts Westcliff RFC

Coach Pete Turner

Asst Coach Rebecca Howard

Asst Coach Phil Robson

Team Manager Tina Turner

Congratulations to all girls for your effort and performances this season.

Unfortunately the age banding means that this successful team has played its last game, as some of the girls move up to the U18's next season. Good Luck to those girls who move up to the U18's next season and good luck and keep up the good work to all those girls who will be carrying the U15's banner next season.

It has been a pleasure to work with you all at County this season

Thank you

Phil

Essex Programme Manager

Essex U15's @ Slough 2nd Dec 07

2007-12-04T10:35:00.000Z

On sunday, our U15's braved the weather to play a tri match against Berkshire and Middlesex.

Having already played both teams this season which resulted in wins for the Essex girls, they went into both games full of confidence despite missing 4 players through injury.

The first game against a middlesex side that had a back line full of pace started just as we wanted, the ball was kept tight in the forwards and their sheer power and technical ability soon showed. The Essex girls were dominant at the scrum and quickest to each breakdown and with the forwards continually pushing towards the middlesex line, it drew the middlesex players into some desperate defending, which opened up a gap in the defence for Alex to crash through to score 5-0.

The backs full of confidence were given quick ball of the back of the scrum and some superb handling saw the ball spread across to the wing where Jess Wilkins had overlapped to recieve the ball and run through to score the second try 10-0
Maddy duly put her conversion away 12-0.

Meg, lucie, Ellie and Alex in the forwards continually put hard tackles in on the middlesex players and kept the middlesex backs quiet for the whole game.

At the turn aroud, the sheer dominance of the Essex girls reduced middlesex to having to kick the ball upfield to try and get out of their own half as the Essex girls kept them pinned in their own 22 for the whole of the second half.

Alex and lucy combined to attack the Middlesex line and only some desperate defending stopped them crashing over, but a quick ball from the back of the ruck saw the backs spin the ball across the park where Abbie and Anna were waiting to run at the line. As they here held up on the line, Meg and Lucy crashed over to clear the defenders to allow Ellie to pick up and dive over for a try 17-o.

The ref blew up shortly after to end what was a terrific display or rugby from our youngsters.

In the 2nd Game the girls played against Berks, and with the weather turning colder and wetter the girls used their advantage in the pack to pressure the Berks defence which opened up gaps allowing the girls to run in 6 tries with Maddy converting 3.
Tries Jessica (3), Alex (2), Ellie
Cons Maddy (3)

Well done to all girls, and lets hope Abbies shoulder heals quickly.

Essex U18's V Berkshire U18's

2007-12-04T10:30:00.000Z

Sunday 2nd December 2007

In very windy and wet conditions, Berkshire kicked off and the Essex girls immediately took the initiative and made their way into the Berkshire 20m zone, where they set up camp and refused to leave, despite every attempt that Berkshire made to clear the danger. There came a series of scrums, (I lost count after 7!), in which the Essex pack showed their dominance, only for ‘knock on’s to occur before Essex could try to get the ball over the line – mainly due to the difficult conditions, but Berkshires stout defence was also forcing some of the errors. The deadlock was broken when the Essex forwards formed a ruck on the 5m line, and Frenchie picked the ball up and ran through a defender to score a typical flankers try 5 -0.
From the kick off, Berkshire came on the attack – producing some big tackles on the Essex girls, and trying to force their way into Essex territory. An Essex player was sent to the bin for 10 minutes for an un-intentional incident, but this just seemed to fire the Essex girls up – down to 14 girls, the scrum was very effective and Essex pressed forward. After the binned payer came back on, Essex carried on pressing forward, and at least three try scoring chances went begging due to ‘the final pass’ not being given early enough, and the half ended with Essex having the majority of the territory, but just 1 try on the board.
Essex kicked off the second half and as you would expect, Berkshire made some in-roads to the Essex half. But the Essex girls were in no mood to let anything through, and were very quick to spot where Berkshire were going to attack – always putting in tackles to stop the momentum before it had time to build. The next Essex score came from a scrum within Essex’s own half – Essex won the ball and the forwards moved it forward in a series of rucks and mauls. It was then passed out to the backs where three passes later, it found Danni, who ran around the last Berkshire defender to score in the corner 10 – 0
There then followed a period of play where neither team could make much headway, centred around the half way line. A Berkshire player went down with an injury which caused the game to be halted for 6 or 7 minutes. (We wish her the very best with her recovery.)
After the restart, Essex again won the territory battle and there followed a try by Sarah Carmen (pick and drive from ruck 5m out) 15 – 0, and then another from Charlie (forwards drive) to make the final score 20 – 0.

Final score: Essex 20 Berkshire 0

The coaches want me to pass on their thanks to ALL of the girls within the Essex U18 squad, for what has been a absolutely fantastic County season – and they hope that many of you will go on to be successful in the Regional programme which starts in January.

match report courtesy of your intrepid reporter Phil (Clark Kent) French

Essex Festival 2007/8

2007-11-19T20:07:00.000Z

Sunday 18th November 07

Last weekend saw the 2nd Annual Festival played at Harlow RFC.

A special Thanks is to go to Alan Brooking,Chris McFerren, Alan Webb and all the staff at Harlow Rugby Club for organising a terrific days rugby.
Kelly and the ladies section for a superb job as pitch marshalls despite suffering frostbite.
Linda and the girls in the Kitchens for the food and hot drinks throughout the day.
Alex Fleming the overworked Physio,
Ken & Callem Potter for getting up early to set up the pitches and marshalling points.

Last but not least Tony McClarnon, Paula Bates and Tina Turner whos tireless work in getting the thing off the ground didnt go unnoticed.

And all the coaches, girls and parents who braved the weather to ensure the day was a success.

U15's

The Essex girls started the day full of confidence following the back to back wins against Kent and Berkshire in the previous county fixtures.

The day started well with a 19-0 victory against Eastern Counties who put up a stirling display for what was a relatively new squad of players.

Scorers: Tries Alex (2) Abbie (1) Cons: Yasmin (2)

The 2nd Game against Middlesex saw the girls come up against a team with some pace out on the wings and only some resulute defending in the opening exchanges stopped Middlesex from opening up a lead.
The forwards soon started to control the game and it wasnt long before the 1st try came from Yas. This spured on the girls who soon opened up a 15-0 lead.
However a momentary lapse out on the wing, allowed a middlesex player to race through and touch down.
Final Score 15-5

Tries Yasmin, Lucie, Abbie.

The 3rd game was against unknown Leicestershire, however the girls quickly settled into their stride and with the forwards dominating at scrums and the breakdown, it wasnt long before Alex opened the scoring with the first of her two tries. Not to be out done, Abbie and Anna both grabbed a brace each before Lucie and Jessica added one apiece.
Final Score 44-0

Tries: Alex (2), Abbie(2), Anna(2) Lucie and Jessica
Cons Yasmin (2).

Going into the 4th Game, Essex and Herts both had maximum points and the winner would almost be certain to lift the trophy .
Both sets of girls know each other well from club and regional rugby, and the game started at a terrific pace.
Both sets of forwards refused to give an inch and the game at half time was finely balanced.
Towards the end of the 1st half, an Essex penalty on the Herts 5m line looked like it would be the opening score, but some excellent defense from the Herts girls withheld the onslaught and cleared the danger.
The game swung Herts way when a clever dummy from Claire gave her an opening to go outside the defense and go over in the corner 0-5.
Again both teams were evenly matched and as the minutes ticked away, another break from Herts gave them their 2nd try of the game.
Final Score 0-10.

The last game for the girls saw them up against Oxford and having to win and hoping Herts slipped up against middlesex.
Although cold,tired and understrength due to injuries in the previous game, the girls were too strong for the Oxford girls and two well worked tries gave them a 10-0 victory. Thanks to Herts for the loan of the 3 girls who played as our front row following the loss of 4 players in the previous game due to injury.

It was a terrific days rugby all round, and Herts were worthy champions for the 2nd year running.
The respect and friendship that has grown between Essex and Herts can only serve to make East a formidable force to be reckoned with in the coming Regional programme.

Here's to next year when we want our trophy back.

Congratulations to all the girls who played some excellent rugby and did themselves, their coaches, clubs and county proud.

Essex County Festival U15's Champions Hertfordshire
Runners Up Essex

Essex Squad

1 Frances
2 Jess
3 Alice
4 Megan
5 Lucie
6 Alex
7 Layla
8 Yasmin
9 Jessica
10 Abbie
11 Olivia
12 Madeleine
13 Emma (Mouse)
14 Anna

U18's

Before starting with the match reports, huge congratulations must be given to all the organisers and volunteers, who through their un-stinting efforts made the festival an extremely enjoyable and successful day.

Without their efforts, these events would not take place, and I know that all the girls, from all the County sides, want to say a massive thank you.

The day started cold – and remained that way(!), but at least forecast rain/sleet/snow held off until the last game of the day, leading to some excellent rugby being played.

The first game for the Essex girls was against Eastern Counties, with the girls from Suffolk/Norfolk/Cambridgeshire kicking off into a stiff breeze. From the start, the Essex girls took the initiative and pressed forward, with the impressive Essex pack leading the way. The Eastern Counties side put up some stout defence, but Essex were pressing the attack at all opportunities. The scoring was opened when Kes received the ball in her own half, gave a couple of steps and turned on the pace to sprint fully 55m to score near the corner 5 – 0.
Following the kick off, and a couple of passes, Danni also showed her pace to score virtually from the restart with another blistering run 10 - 0
Essex kept up the pressure, and the Eastern Counties girls were gradually driven back towards their line, with Essex knocking on 5m out. From the resulting scrum, the Essex forwards again showed their strength, winning the ball against the head, and Scotty (scrum half) ran in to score the third Essex try 15 – 0.
Half time came and went with Essex still taking the game to their opponents – the forwards were now dominating the scrums, and providing a fantastic platform for the backs to work off. This allowed India to be on the receiving end of a good passing move, and she duly obliged by scoring with ease. 20 – 0.
The Eastern Counties girls rallied, but Essex were in no mood to ship any points and their defence was as good as their attacking play, with all the girls covering any move made by the opposition.
Late in the game, Danni was again the beneficiary of a great passing move and went over to score her second try to bring the game to a close 25 – 0.

Final score: Essex 25 Eastern Counties 0

Next up for Essex were Leicestershire – an unknown quantity as the Counties had not met in recent history – and they proved to be a tight, well drilled, physical side. Again Essex dominated territory from the start and applied the pressure through the whole team. The Leicestershire girls put in some excellent defensive play, but India managed to score after a period of sustained Essex pressure 5 – 0.
Play resumed with Essex attacking, and Leicestershire defending. The Essex pack were starting to have their way in the scrum, and the backs always looked dangerous. After a couple of scrums, Natalie managed to power over the line for the second Essex try 10 – 0 at half time.
The second half continued in the same vein as the first, with Leicestershire making some big defensive tackles to keep the Essex girls at bay, but following a tap penalty 10m from the Leicestershire line, Natalie again powered over the line for her second of the match 15 – 0.
The score line didn’t reflect the excellent effort that the Leicestershire girls put into the game – well done – and it would be nice for the two counties to meet each other on another opportunity.

Final score: Essex 15 Leicestershire 0

The final game of the day for the Essex girls was a ‘winner takes all’ match up with their rivals from neighbouring Hertfordshire. The girls play a lot of club rugby against each other, and then form a large portion of the East Region representative side, so they know each other very well, and everyone was looking forward to a great match – and we weren’t disappointed.
From the outset, both teams played some excellent attacking rugby, combined with some excellent defensive rugby, culminating in a game mainly centred between the two 20m lines. As Essex tried to find a way through, the Hertfordshire girls shut the door firmly in their faces, and the Essex girls put in some great tackles whenever Hertfordshire looked like finding the telling pass. It was going to take something special to break the deadlock – and Essex found the move late on in the first half. Kes managed to step her marker and made a break out of her own half. Wonderful supporting play from the Essex girls resulted in Natalie offloading the ball from contact to Frenchie, who ran a great line to score from 10m out. 5 – 0 at half time.
With a game as tight as this, the Essex girls showed some maturity by playing for territory during the second half. With a great display of kicking for touch, combined with not giving an inch when Hertfordshire attacked, the Essex girls ran down the clock to successfully defend their title.
Congratulations and commiserations must be given to the Hertfordshire girls who gave Essex a run throughout the whole game – lets hope the Essex and Hertfordshire girls, combined with the Eastern Counties girls combine after Christmas into an awesome East Region side.

Final score: Essex 5 Hertfordshire 0

Essex County Festival U18 Champions Essex
Runners-up Hertfordshire

And finally, a message of thanks for all the players, from all the Counties, who made the day worthwhile with excellent displays of rugby – the future looks very bright indeed!!

Phil French Ace Reporter Daily Bugle

Basford Girls Easter Tour 08

2007-11-16T22:08:00.000Z

Girls

Having been in touch with Mandy at the Yorkshire RFUW, we can now confirm that our Easter tour will be to the North East, and in particulatr the scenic coastline around Whitby.

The dates are the 21st to 24th March inc and the plan is to stay at a local youth Hostel for 3 nights and to play games on the Saturday and sunday against local teams.

More information will be posted in due course, in the mean time put your thinking heads on to come up with this years theme.

Ideas so far
Gavin Village People
Gavin Super Hero's
Gavin Any thing where he can dress up in spandex and tights.

Simon and Myself will be voting for a scooby doo theme ( cos we have the gear)!!!!!!

So get thinking the best idea wins a ???????????????????

Phil

Essex U15's v Kent

2007-11-05T20:45:00.000Z

Sunday 4th November 07

Last Sunday saw the 2nd County Game of the season take place at Rochford Rugby Club

We were pleased to welcome Kent to Rochford, and the girls were hoping for a reversal of fortunes after last seasons defeat to Kent.

From the off, the game was played at a terrific pace with both teams playing some excellent rugby.
No quarter was given by either side with some big tackles being made across the park.

Kent took the lead after some poor handling by the Essex side allowed them to break through the normally robust defense for Iona Todd to touch down. 5-0

The Girls kept on playing to their game plan, and the forwards continued to make in roads into the Kent half of the park.
Following yet another turn over at the scrum, the ball was fed to mouse who pulled a perfect pass to Abby out on the wing who then raced through the Kent defence to touch down. 5-5, although the conversion was pulled wide the girls now had the upper hand.

The forwards were dominating the scrum with some excellent play by Ellie, Jess and Frances in the front row with Meg and Lucie providing that push from second row. Alex as usual was ever alert and quick of the back of the scrum to support Jessica at scrum half.
It would be fair to say that up to the moment when Frances went off injured we were totally in control of the scrum.
Having lost Frances, we had to revert to uncontested scrums due to the lack of an experienced prop, and our physical advantage went along with frances.

The backs were seeing plenty of ball throughout the game and some strong running and tackling kept Kent at bay.
Maddy playing her first game at full back had the safest hands on the pitch and continually ran at the Kent side whenever she got a chance.
The support play from Layla, Yasmin and Olivia in the centre allowed the girls to mount another attack on the Kent line and some deft handling from Ellie, Meg and Lucie fed the ball to Alex who broke through to go over for the 2nd and what proved to be the winning try. 10-5.

Kent did not give up and a mistake by the Essex girls from a scrum gave Iona Todd from Kent the opportunity to run at the line for what would have been an equalising try. However a deft little tap tackle on the ankle of Iona by Yasmin caused her to stumble forward and spill the ball.
The referee deciding that there wasnt time to scrum down, blew the whistle to bring to an end a fantastic display of rugby and a well deserved win for the Essex Girls.

After a brief respite, the girls took to the field again to play against a Kent Development side who had travelled over with their A team.
Although the first game had taken its toll on the girls, with Frances being unable to carry on and Anna having to leave early, the girls played on against 13man Kent with 12 players, but proved far too strong for their opponents and ran out eventual winners 51-0.

A big thanks to Kent for coming over today to give the Girls what was undoubtedly the hardest game they had faced this season.

Essex Squad

Megan (Capt), Ellie, Alex, Jess H, Frances,Lucie, Jessica, Yasmin, Layla, Olivia, Mouse, Maddy, Abby, and Anna.

Tries: Abby, Alex 10-5

Tries: Lucie (2), Alex(2), Jessica, Layla, Mouse, Abbie(2)

Cons: Yasmin (3) 51-0

Well done to all those girls.

Basford U18's v Worthing

2007-10-29T20:24:00.000Z

Sunday 28th October 2007

Overcast, grey, damp and showers – much more like the weather we come to expect when playing and watching rugby!

Rochford were pleased to welcome the girls and coaches from Worthing RFC for this first meeting of the clubs outside of the Worthing 10’s Festival – the Basford girls really appreciate the long journey made by Worthing and hope they enjoyed the day.

The game was played with 14 a side, with Worthing taking the kick off to start the game. Basford immediately started to press forward and took the ball into the Worthing half. Unfortunately, an intercepted pass led to the Worthing no 12 making the most of her pace, and she streaked away for the first score of the game with the Basford girls left for dead. An excellent kick took the extra points and Worthing led 0 – 7.
Going behind seemed to spur the Basford girls on and after two tries being ‘held up’ by some great Worthing defence, Sophie managed to get the ball down for the first Basford score 5 – 7.
A period of play between the 20m lines followed until the Basford forwards showed their dominance, pressing forward until Natalie managed to break the Worthing defence to score 10 – 7.
Basford continued to press forward through their pack, with the Basford ‘wing prop’ Sarah C making a storming run with three defenders hanging onto her! Some excellent Worthing defence led to another three opportunities being ‘held up’, until Sophie again, running from scrum half, managed to score her second 15 – 7, which was promptly followed by her hat trick (Cheers for the jug Dom!) 20 – 7 at half time.

The second half started with Worthing again being quicker out the blocks and providing the first score of the half 20 – 12.
Again this spurred the Basford girls on, and they pressed forward winning a penalty on the Worthing 20m line. The ball came out to the backs, with Frenchie making a good run up to the 5m line. The ball eventually came out to Shivy who crossed the line for a Basford score 25 – 12.
Basford continued to dominate territory and following a line-out on the 5m line, Natalie run in to score her second 30 – 12.
The Basford girls then produced the best move of the game – just outside their own 20m, Charlie took the ball in to contact, gave a great off-load to Frenchie who ran 35m, popped the ball to Sarah C, who then gave the ball for Natalie to score her hat trick (Cheers for the jug Tony!) – a great move and a great try 35 – 12.
Having done it once, Basford repeated the feat with another great move that led to Sarah C scoring a much deserved try, to make the final score 40 – 12.

Again, many thanks to Worthing for making the journey, and well done to the Worthing girls for putting up such stout resistance – we all hope that the player who had to be carried off after being injured in the last tackle of the game makes a speedy recovery. We look forward to meeting you all again later in the season.

Final result: Rochford / Basildon 40 – Worthing RFC 12.

Basford U15's v Worthing 28th October

2007-10-28T18:03:00.000Z

Despite the weather turning just before kick off, the U15's today put on an excellent display of team rugby.

We were pleased to welcome Worthing along to Rochford today and although we had taken part in their annual 10's Tournament for the past two years, we had never actually come up against them in a game.

We also welcomed two new players into the team today, Jessica (Clacton) and Olivia(Romford).
It would seem that word of the U15's ability is spreading, and we are starting to attract new players from around the county.

With the surface being greasy and the continuous drizzle making handling difficult the forwards played a tight game, keeping the ball in the pack and driving towards the Worthing line.Once the forwards had gained the territorial advantage, the ball was swiftly fed to the backs who ran in 12 tries to set up a convincing win over their opponents.The backs making use of the width of the pitch ran at spaces in the Worthing defense time and time again, and only some stirling defense by Worthing stopped the girls running up an even bigger score.The traffic was not all one way and only some excellent defending meant that the girls again kept a clean sheet.Well done to all the girls today it was a terrific performance from all of you.

Team
Megan (C)
Ellie
Mouse
Alex
Frances
Jessica
Yasmin
Layla
Maddy
Lucie
Abby
Olivia

Scorers
Tries: Layla(2), Ellie(2), Frances, Yasmin, Maddy, Lucie(2), Jessica(2), Olivia
Cons: Lucie (2) Yasmin(5)

Well done to all a terrific team display.

This was a nice warm up for next weeks county game against Kent which as we know from last year will be a hard fought game.

Basford Girls retain TDG places.

2007-10-04T18:31:00.000+01:00

U18 Talent Development Group (TDG) 2007/08
The RFUW have announced its 2007/08 Talent Development Group, who were selected following nomination by their Regional Coaches to the High Performance Academy’s held this summer.
The Under 18 TDG of 35 includes players, 3 of which are Basildon/Rochford Players. 2 Basildon Players, Emily Scott and Sophie Russell, have been re-selected and they have been joined this Season by teammate Natalie McClarnon. The TDG will participate in sessions held both nationally and locally throughout the season.
The TDG focuses on individual player and athletic development through core rugby skills and by providing players with an understanding and knowledge of the requirements to play rugby at the highest level.
Whilst not all players involved with the TDG will progress to present England in future years, the RFUW performance staff anticipate that the TDG will prove to be a high quality, player centred environment from which future world class international players progress and develop.

County Training

2007-09-24T22:09:00.000+01:00

Sunday 30th Sept 07

County training is to be held this coming sunday at Thurrock Rugby Club.

The session is for both the U15's &U18's

Training starts at 1pm sharp.

Please let your team Manager know if you are unable to attend.

County Festival

2007-09-15T16:39:00.001+01:00

ESSEX COUNTY RFUW UNDER 18 AND UNDER 15 TOURNAMENT

Essex County RFUW Committee would like to extend an invitation to you all to attend the Essex RFUW Under 18 and Under 15 County Tournament.

The tournament will be held on 18.11.07 at Harlow RFC, kick off at 10.00am for a full days display of great rugby

We are hoping to have 5/6 counties playing at both age groups.

Please come along to support Essex and watch a fantastic day of rugby.
We look forward to seeing you all there.

Basildon & Rochford Girls Rugby

2007-09-04T21:24:00.000+01:00

As the new Season is now upon us, we have decided to set up a new blog dedicated to the Basford Girls.

This current blog will continue as an unofficail advertisment for girls rugby in Essex so please send in your match reports, pictures or any thing that you would like published.
It is there for you to use to promote your club.

To view the new site dedicated to the Basildon and Rochford Girls please click on the link to the right or go to http://basfordgirlsrugby.blogspot.com

Romford Ravens make winning start to season

2007-09-04T20:43:00.001+01:00

Ravens WIN Ashford Tournament
The Ravens started the 07/08 season by winning the Ashford tournament. Beating hosts Ashford in a very exciting final 19-17. Playing the 1st half into the wind Ravens found themselves 12-0 down. But forward power, combining with the electric back line and sought to overcome their valiant opponents.Lucy COWELL was pleased to receive the trophy in her first game as the new captain.

Essex Senior Ladies

2007-07-14T17:18:00.000+01:00

Please note the following and pass the information on to anyone you think may be interested.

Qualification for playing for Essex is living, playing or born in Essex.

The Essex Senior Women's Trial is on 9th Sept as scheduled At Romford and Gidea Park RFC. 1pm, registration start at 2pm.

Then training Sat 15 + 22 Sep 10 am - 12:30 prior to the Essex game on 30th.
Next training Sat 6 + 13 Oct 10am - 12:30 prior to Essex game on 21st.
Next training Sat 3 + 10 Nov 10am - 12;30 prior to the Essex game on 18th

All training will be held at Romford and Gidea Park RFC.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact Chris Emerson on Mobile 07775 635920 FAX 01375 406662

Clacton Beach Festival

2007-07-02T22:24:00.000+01:00

A big thanks to Andrew and the team for making last weekend such an enjoyable one.

Despite the weather, the Clacton Beach Festival was a great success.

Around 24 teams braved the rain to have fun and take part in a great days rugby.

Our own teams from Basford, didnt do too bad, with the U17 "Basford Bags" (aided by Joe and Gary) winning the bowl competition.

The U14 "Basford Babes" won the spoon competition, however the old boys "Basford Bombers" lived up to their name and "bombed out in the plate semi final.

Basford Babes Megan, Yasmin, Alice, Layla, Alex, Kat, Splat, Master Toby, Jackie

Basford Bags Natalie, Sarah C, Cherelle, Sarah MCB, Sam, Gemma, Gary, Joe, Sophie, Emily

Basford Bombers Gavin, Simon, Paul, Mark, Dominic, Darren, Peter, Phil,

Despite the weather, many of our intrepid bunch braved the elements and camped for the weekend near Colchester.

A big thanks to Darren and Paula for organising the camping and to Pete and Tina for the food over the weekend.

Pete the BBQ'S were ACE.

Chelmsford Rugby Club

2007-07-02T22:07:00.000+01:00

Chelmsford Rugby club are actively recruiting for their girls and Ladies section.

Give them a call or drop in.

Help put another Essex club on the map.

Essex Training

2007-07-01T21:08:00.000+01:00

Apologies, due to the onset of dementia (or just plain old age) I inadvertantly put the training down to be held at Thurrock as last year.
We are however possibly travelling along the A127 to Romford this year.
I will keep you posted over the next week or so and then finalise times and location.

Rochford Festival 2007

2007-06-27T20:49:00.000+01:00

As the new season approaches, now is the time to register your interest in the Annual Rochford Festival.

The festival which aside from providing a great days rugby for many girls, also raises a lot of money for worthwhile causes. This year the chosen charity is the "Little Havens Hospice".

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Rochford Hundred U18’s girl’s 10’s and U15’s 7’s
Charity festival

We would like to invite you to play in our fourth charity 10’s & 7’s festival, last year’s festival was a great success and we hope you can join us this season to make it an even greater success.

It is to be held on Sunday 14th October.

We would envisage that the under 18’s should play five fourteen minute games, these to be played in accordance with the under 18 girls laws for season 2007/2008. There will be no overage players allowed to take part.

The under 15’s will be played in accordance with the under 15’s laws for season 2007/2008. Hopefully the U15’s will follow a similar format.

Even if you do not have a full squad please contact us as we may be able to put you in touch with another team in the same situation or form a barbarian squad. So everybody gets a chance to play rugby.

We are also trying to get an U12’s game arranged for the same day, So if you have any please let me know.

All we ask for is a donation of £25 for a full team, per age group, or £3 a participant if you do not have a full squad. This is to go to this years selected charity, which is LITTLE HAVENS CHILDRENS HOSPICE Charity No 2805007

Please contact Tina to register an interest on 01268 691409 or email her at tina@rugbyturners.plus.com

There is only space for twelve teams, in each age group, so register asap.

Essex Training / Trials

2007-06-27T19:26:00.000+01:00

As the new season is fast approaching ( well Pre season training anyway) we now have the proposed dates for the County Calender.

Please make a note of the dates in your diaries.

Youth Section (U15's &U18's)

20th August ( TBA)

7.15 for 7.30 start. Initial Trial session 1.5 hrs approx

9th Sept (TBA)

Time to be advised. Final Trials 2 hrs approx

17th Sept (TBA)

7.15 for 7.30 Start. Full training session. 1.5 hrs approx

30th Sept (TBA)

Time to be advised. Full Training session. 2hrs approx

15th October (TBA)

7.15 for 7.30 start. Full training session. 1.5 hrs approx

21st October
County Fixture to be confirmed

4th November
County Fixture to be confirmed

18th November
County Festival (Venue to be confirmed)

2nd December
County fixture to be confirmed

County trials are open to all players regardless of whether they are a member of a rugby club player or a member of a school team.

If you require any further information, please contact either
Chris Emerson 07775 635920
Phil Robson 07783 402214

Senior Squad

As with the Junior section, trials will be held on the 9th Sept. the venue for the trials will be announced shortly.

Senior Games will be played on a League basis and will consist of games over 3 weekends.

30th Sept Venue to be confirmed (this will be an Away fixture)

21st October Venue to be confirmed (This will be a Home fixture)

18th November Venue to be confirmed (This will be an away fixture)

Further information will be posted as soon as the other counties are on board.

As with the Youth section, please contact either Chris or Phil for any further information.

Student Life.

2007-06-18T13:13:00.000+01:00

Young Joe, our dear friend from across the border in Letchworth is rumoured to be trying to have a go at student life. (Typical should get a job and stop sponging off us Taxpayers)

Any way to help him settle in we have been doing some research on Quality Eating Establishments and menus.

Having canvassed many other drop outs we have come up with a suitable menu that will sustain him throughout his layabout years.

For the more discerning student

For the student with rich parents

Sophisticated Beans for those on a student date ( works well with Lidl brand Bacardi Breezers)

How to serve beans (for those who have had mummy doing everything for them up till now)

Also cheap beer (funded by us hard working tax payers) in some dive of a student bar.

Charlies Angels at East Dinner Dance

2007-06-18T11:26:00.000+01:00

Charlies Angels

well strictly speaking Gavin's Angels