Fun Day and Presentations - Sunday 25th April 2010

Who would believe that Saturday was a scorcher and this Sunday morning was rain (It did dry up thankfully) This is the last day of our season, with a fun day and presentations. Tim arriving early to set up and made sure the ice buckets were put out for the truck load of beers he was expecting! Today was going to be a great day of fun and drinking.

As the players arrived the coaches set up games for the morning fun.

Presentation time and Tim said a bit about the season, before congratulating each player in turn for all their efforts. Each player then came up to collect their engraved 2009/10 season medal (Who’s got the medal with my name on, in all the confusion!). Now for the three trophies

Most Improved Player was awarded to Henry (continually driving forward with no going back)

Coaches Player of the Year was awarded to Sam

Player’s Player was awarded to Sam. Tim also presented him with his club tie and a few words

Well done to Sam and Henry and well done to all the squad for their efforts this season.

BBQ to follow with a few drinks, is that all we are getting sausages and burgers!.

Thank you to Tom for the loan of the bouncy castle - that will keep the youngsters very busy.

Have a Great Summer and see you all next season

Thank you to all who have helped out today.

Surrey A Festival - At Dorking RFC 18th April 2010.

Well done to all our players selected to represent our squad at this festival.

Great Weather and days rugby despite the team not scoring a try! Not for want of trying! (thanks for the quote Tom)

I'm not surprised from the picture it looks as if you are playing on a ploughed field.

Tim and Richard were extremely impressed with their efforts, with Richard expressing the quality of their rugby in the last game with flowing side to side passing. For him it was rugby at its best.

Well done, hopefully not too much sun burn. See you next week for the fun day

Surrey Development Festival at Camberley RFC

Sunday 11th April 2010

The weather was going to be fine for this Surrey Development festival at our Club

The u11s are playing on the training pitch, gosh who marked out the pitches ‘they look great’

Eight teams listed, a few had dropped out probably due to the timing of this festival and players not being available. Unlucky for them!

Two groups of four teams – 7 minutes each way with 2 minutes rest at half time.

Group 1 – Guildford, Cobham, Old Reigatians and Haselmere
Group 2 – Chobham, London Irish, Camberley and Wimbledon

Tim, Richard, Andy and Mark coaching today, starting with warm up and drills ready for our first game against Wimbledon.

Wimbledon 1 v Camberley 3

The squad looking keen for this first match. Jake starting us off with a good kick. The squad playing well. The mauling was brilliant with sustained pressure on Wimbledon being pushed back. Wimbledon had a break away with a good run wide and into the corner and over for a try 1-0, against the run of play it could be said. Camberley showed their mark with a try. A short while later the ball passed along the line into the safe hand of Myles about 15 metres out, driving through the channel towards their try line cutting inside, Wimbledon with players around him but could not get him down, Myles pushed forward and down for a great try 2 – 1 (Adrian did you see that!). All in all our play and positioning was good with another try to win our first match 3 –1. Very good start.

London Irish 3 v Camberley 2

This was a tough match, we played well again with our forward doing extremely well against their huge pack, and shows size doesn’t matter. At 2 –2 and near to the end of the second half all the pressure as in the London Irish half as we played towards their try line, finally the ball was turned over and London Irish took advantage of the positioning of our players and moved forward slow but sustained push lead to a try in the corner and the final whistle (what a surprise). Nine minutes I heard someone say, was it going to be one of those days again?
Very well played by Camberley.

Chobham 1 v Camberley 0

Chobham has looked very impressive during early games with slick passing and would give most A side a good run for their money. The game again started well for Camberley with us putting pressure on Chobham and restricting their flow (they didn’t look half the side from previous). Camberley were up on the Chobham try line but for some reason we couldn’t get the ball down. Chobham finally got a try and the score stayed at 1 – 0. Another good match played. The last two matches we lost by a try in each and we would finish third in our group.

Camberley 3 v Old Reigatians 0

Last match of the day for use, with another good start. Our forwards controlling the play.
Connor picking up the ball half way in our half and driving forward, tackled by Old Reigatians but he still pressed on, ending up well into their half before he passed the ball out, good passing along the line and over for a try. We controlled the game throughout but near the end Old Reigatians with a penalty 5 metres out, a line of their players facing a line of ours were looking to score. The whistle blew; we were out of the blocks first and up on them in a flash with grinding tackles. The maul was formed 12 boys on 12 boys as it slowly moved to the right all the way over to the right corners, finally the ball was dropped and Sam on to it in a flash kicking it out. Game over. Well done. Four very good matches.

Andy led the team talk at the end congratulating each player in turn whilst handing out the medals. Paul was getting into a bit of a mess as the medal ribbons knotted together, in your own time! Well done to all our players today

Thank you

Thank you to all the squads that turned out for this U11s festival making a great day of rugby.

Thanks to our squad who turned out to support us today, Thomas, George, Seb, Matt, Tim, William and Daniel S.

Thanks to our coaches Tim, Andy, Mark and efforts of Richards in refereeing as well.

Thanks to all our parents for helping with car parking, first aid and pitch marshalling – wouldn’t be a success without you. Thanks very much.

Looking forward to the Surrey ‘A’ Festival and Fun Day.

Final Winners – Cobham
Guildford 1 v Cobham 1 (Cobham win on count back)

Sunday 28th March 2010

Camberley have been invited at short notice to enter the Reading Abbey 'A' squad Festival., so some of our squad are over there whilst the remainder are at home for some training. Welcome to a new player Ryan who turned up today - hope you enjoyed yourself. Thanks to Tim V for running the home session.

Tom had a few words about our trip to Reading Abbey - Thanks

Yep was a good festival and the weather was excellent.

Played 5 Games :

1. Bracknell A's : Cam Lost 3-0
- Got off to a great start with forward ball all the way to Bracknell try line. Then the momentum slowed and we lost

2.Redingensians: Cam Lost 1-0

By the 3rd game Cam team were waking up and started playing Team Rugby rather than Individual Rugby.

3. Reading Abbey : Cam Drew 0-0
- Fantastic game of strong go forward and really strong defence.

4. Bracknell B's : Cam Won 7-0
- Real team work here with Forwards running with the ball with pace and scoring try's as well as the backs.

5. Reading : Cam Won 3-0
- Again, team rugby paid off.

Overall, Fantastic Rugby by the team today. Ball handling errors cost us some ground through knock forwards. Team deserved more today; Key to success going forward has to be everyone getting to Venue at least 45 mins before Festival starts so the team can get warmed up and focus on the job to be done on the day - Go Forward rugby, teamwork and Winning.

Enjoy the Easter Break. See you all in a couple of weeks.