25th Anniversary Celebrations September 28th 2013 Richmond Athletic Ground and Rifles Club, London W1.
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KEW OCCASIONALS SUPPORT JAN KOOPS AND WALK ON WALES In our 25th anniversary year it’s only fitting that we have a charitable angle to our celebrations, and accordingly the club is supporting our stalwart club member and Falklands veteran Jan Koops in his ‘Walk on Wales’. To quote from the website: www.walkonwales.org : “The Walk on Wales concept was dreamt up by two veteran Welsh Guards, Jan Koops and David (Dai) Graham, both of whom served in the Falklands War. As a result, Jan and Dai are keenly aware of the devastating impact that active service can have on soldiers and their families, as they cope with bereavement, life-changing injuries or the long-term effects of psychological trauma. The vision for Walk on Wales is: - to remember and acknowledge the contribution of the 50 Welsh Guardsmen who have died on active service since the end of World War II, and - to create a legacy today for the veterans of tomorrow, by raising £1 million for the Welsh Guards Afghanistan Appeal and Combat Stress. The Walk will start on 25 August 2013, when the first of 11 Walk on Wales relay teams will set off to walk the Welsh Coast Path, accompanied by Jan Koops and Rod Morgan who will be walking the entire 870 miles. The teams will be carrying with them a specially commissioned silver baton inscribed with the names of those 50 Welsh Guardsmen who died while serving their country in Afghanistan, the Falklands, Iraq and Northern Ireland. In a journey of remembrance and thanks, the baton will travel the entire length of the stunning Welsh Coast Path before arriving back at Cardiff Bay. The Walk is being run on a voluntary basis by a team of former and serving Welsh Guards and is honoured to have HRH, the Prince of Wales as its Patron and Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank as its President.” Rob Jolliffe is taking the lead in organising a KORFC team which will join Jan on his walk on Saturday October 26th for the leg from Port Eynon to Mumbles. There are two ways you can help us support Jan and this excellent cause: anyone interested in joining us can contact Rob on [email protected] – we will take the train from London to Swansea on Friday night and return Sunday, with two nights in Rob’s hometown of Mumbles. If you can’t join us then please sponsor the KORFC team by going to the above website and specifying that your donation via their Virgin Moneygiving page is specifically to support our team and Jan on that particular day. To quote Jan, who as we dine tonight will have just completed the 16 mile Machynlleth – Borth leg of his walk, heading towards Aberystwyth: “It’s typical of the club and players that I know and love that you should choose to already have shown such generous support to me and this project in your 25th anniversary year. I look forward enormously to putting on a Kew Occasionals jersey again on October 26th together with the rest of the team who will be walking with me that day. On behalf of Walk on Wales I am hugely grateful and appreciative for this support – please continue to give generously to this worthwhile cause.” Welcome from the two club captains As our venerable founder’s subsequent history of the club mentions, the Kew Occasionals while the other team, who have been hitting tacklebags for the previous 45 minutes, look were born out of the ashes of serious rugby, rising like a phoenix to accommodate the gamut on in bewilderment, doing some vague leg swings while discussing goings on from the of playing ability, from “I could’ve been a contender” to “and another, barman”. The history previous night before proceeding with the messy business of getting on with the game. We of the Kews is long and swashbuckling – no doubt JP can fill you have also had some famous evenings out and been ejected in if you get really bored this evening – but suffice to say the from institutions that were far too classy to let us in in the stories are many, even if the memories are a little woozy. first place. We have proudly trashed both Master’s Lodge The present iteration of the mighty pink and whites (with and Travelodge. That no-one was locked in the Tower back in “definitely not the England” rose on our shirts) have a great March is both a blessing and a mystery. blend of youth and experience, somehow presided over by The shirts have, certainly, got tighter (and pinker), the captains who have neither. We are lucky to have some serious team a little more regular (although perish the thought of talent at our disposal and a strong core of like-minded players, training, apart from the odd Lamb & Flag session), but the committed equally to Friday night as to Saturday afternoon. ethos and attitude of the club and its players are the same We are a little more geographically mixed than the original now as they were when the borrowed shirts of the Stock Kews, recruiting from the far-flung corners of the earth, but no Exchange were first pulled on. That is a credit to the players, less elite, taking our players in equal measures from light and both present and past, and a credit to the backbone of the dark Blue as well as from the other finest top tier universities. club, most of whom are assembled in this room and a fair In all we hope to offer a safe haven for those tired of bleak Tuesday night training and few of whom have worked incredibly hard to get this room assembled. To all those who looking for high quality post-match refreshment. made tonight possible, thank you, and to all those who have made the previous 25 years Our tenure as captains has coincided with a strong run of form and some victories possible, the current crop of Kews are incredibly grateful to you all. Everyone’s hard work that will live long in the memory. It has tasted all the sweeter when achieved with all the and dedication has been more than occasional, and we are in your debt. typical preparation of a Kews game. This, for the uninitiated, involves arriving at a leisurely As Captains, as players, and as friends, we are proud to be Kews. Roll on another 25 years. pace approximately five minutes before kick-off, getting changed on the side of the pitch Tom Clark and Tom Quayle (Joint Club Captains). Our Guest of Honour Auction Finlay Calder was capped 34 times at openside Rhino Rugby have kindly donated a 2012-13 England shirt signed by the whole 6 Nations flanker for Scotland and captained both his country squad and a Rhino 2013 Lions ball signed by Sam Warburton for auction this evening. and the victorious 1989 British & Irish Lions tour The proceeds will be split equally between Walk on Wales and KORFC. to Australia, the last winning tour there before this Summer’s series. KORFC toured Edinburgh to watch the 1990 game between Scotland and England - to quote the Scotsman: “If any single moment symbolized the Scottish team spirit and gritty determination in 1990’s Grand Slam decider it was surely the sight of Finlay Calder, early on in the match, collecting a loose ball and driving hard into the English forwards.” His final international game was against New Zealand in the 1991 Rugby World Cup. Finlay works for Glencore and courtesy of our Hon Secretary we are extremely pleased and proud to welcome him to our 25th anniversary celebrations. Order of play TC’s XV vs TQ’s XV, 2pm Kick off, Richmond Athletic Ground 7.15 for 8pm, Rifles Club, Davies St, London W1 Welcome speech by joint Captains, Tom Clark and Tom Quayle. Toast: ‘The Kew Occasionals’ proposed by Finlay Calder Reply on behalf of the Club by Chris Stone, Chairman Carriages at 2am.
International players Club Officials 2013-14 Past Club Presidents David Kirk, Anton Oliver, Mark Robinson new Zealand. President: John Purcell Ross Dunlop (1988-1993) Andy Ripley, Derek Wyatt England Chairman: Chris Stone Reg Clark (1993-1998) Bob Egerton, Bill Calcraft Australia Hon Secretary: Chris Bucknall Marcus Rule (1998-2003) Andy Moore, Dai Evans Wales Hon Treasurer: Howie Dormer Steffan Williams (2003-2008) Hugo Macneil, Mike Gibson Ireland Jim Parton (2008-2013) Toshiyuki Hayashi Japan FONS ET ORIGO - a short history of KORFC The first game ever played by the Kew Occasionals RFC took place on September 26th 1988 when a team using (as we often subsequently did) the Old Gold shirts of the London Stock Exchange played Meadhurst RFC, the side based at the BP social club in Sunbury. For the record we won 30-9 and the team was: Luddington; Walter, Clark, Butler, Nixon; Watkinson, Brett; Mapstone, Chislett, Enevoldson, Dunlop, Whatmore, Hobart, Munday, Robinson Tries: Nixon 3, Clark, Hobart, Brett. Cons: Watkinson 2, Clark.
The first ever club newsletter reporting on that game points to the varied origins of the was all for the best however and we have flown the flag for high quality non-league rugby club: “out of the ashes of the Rosslyn Park Juggernaut and the Rob Jolliffe Bachelor XV the ever since. Our role in providing continuing opportunities for players who would otherwise Kew Occasionals has emerged to cater for your needs for social rugby followed by a face full have to stop playing the game was recognised last season by our RFU Presidents Award for of beer on a Saturday”. A massive motivation for the club has always been the desire of Player Retention, and the icing on the cake was receiving the Award from England all time a like minded group of people to play together regularly. Ross Dunlop’s unbeaten side of great Jason Leonard who will be RFU President in Rugby World Cup Year 2015. 1985-6 was subsequently kicked out of Park for being a ‘club within a club’ ie wanting the Touring has always been an important part of the club’s culture, and in addition to same team to play each week. They left and spent two unsettled years as an itinerant side visiting Dublin every two years for the Ireland vs England game we have toured Japan, Hong loosely attached at one stage to University Vandals in Weybridge before forming a large Kong, Dubai, France, Spain, Romania, Russia, Czechoslovakia (as was), Austria, Portugal part of the early Kew XVs – 10 of the side pictured in the team photo on this page went on Argentina, Poland and South Africa (twice) and undertaken numerous domestic trips to play for KORFC, including a number of club stalwarts. Another strand to the origins of the including as Finlay our guest of honour this evening will be pleased to hear, to Edinburgh club was the group of players who assembled to celebrate Rob Jolliffe’s stag weekend with for the 1990 Calcutta Cup match...at least we defeated Trinity Academicals on the Friday night! a game against Oxford Old Boys RFC at Iffley Road in March 1988, wearing the now infamous In September 1990 the club journeyed to Kobe in Japan to play a ‘curtain raiser’ before Association of International Bond Dealers ‘England’ shirts bought by the AIBD for the annual the Kobe Steel vs Oxford University game which itself celebrated the ground breaking game against the Paris Bourse which were subsequently accidentally dyed pink. There ceremony of the St Catherine’s College Oxford Kobe Institute, which has flourished rather was a strong Oxford contingent in this group which is the cause of our original dark blue less well since then than the Kew Occasionals. We narrowly lost to a Combined Imperial shorts – the whole of the 1979 Varsity front row, lock Keith Budge and the late and much Universities Old Boys side on national TV at Kobe central stadium, before participating in the missed Eddie Quist-Arcton amongst others who went on to play for the club with varying ceremonies (sort of) and defeating a combined Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club/Kobe Steel Old degrees of regularity. Amongst the JP Morgan contingent in the photo is John Coulter Boys side the following day. Another memorable item in the club archives is a response to who went on to be a club founder and stalwart who can be credited with initiating a long a message of sympathy KORFC sent to KR&AC after the 1995 Kobe earthquake – ‘we haven’t club link with Trinity College Dublin. Added to these strands it must be said was the arrival seen so much damage since you lot were here’. The tour featured an appearance from early in the club’s existence of a group of prematurely decadent Oxford players – Marcus Perth in Western Australia of legendary Kews - Doctors Dave Mitchell and Barry Clements, Rule, Jeff Chislett and Steffan Williams who together with Robert Mapstone (via the Stock who repeated the feat for our South African tour in 1998. There is simply not enough space Exchange link) formed in subsequent years one of the most solid, belligerent and heavy here for Kobe tour and Mitchell/Clements stories – catch me in the bar later. drinking front rows in the history of the game. Another great club touring story is our entry into the Hong Kong 10s in 1992 on The club joined the Surrey RFU and the RFU in 1988/89 and initially lacked a home which occasion such was the degree of last minute jacking that by the time captain David ground, eventually settling for a number of years at the Chiswick Polytechnic Ground as it ‘Shagger’ Williams collected the shirts from Kew en route to Heathrow he was informed was then called. We alternated between borrowing the Stock Exchange shirts and those that he was in fact the sole representative of the club as things stood. His performance in of the AIBD (there being massive player overlaps with both of those midweek teams) landing at 8am for an 11am kick off, raising a side and defeating the HK Combined Services 25before permanently half inching the latter with the result that pink became the club colour. to win the Bowl competition at HKFC (in addition to other things) remains one of the great Our fixture list was varied and relied a great deal on the fixture exchange, but from early KORFC touring achievements. on featured a series of hotly contested games against a ‘veterans’/social circuit of the In the early years of the club the side was captained loosely on an alternative week Harlequins Gents, the London Scottish Picts, and in particular the Richmond Heavies. We basis by founders Ross Dunlop and Reg Clark, and the first ‘club captain’ as such was Rupert had the distinction of fielding the legendary Andy Ripley in our first ever game against the Vessey who took over for 3 seasons from 1991 to 1994. The club was also lucky at this time to have the one and only ‘Dob’ , now Mrs Rule, as Hon Secretary, team rounder-up, regular tourist and drinking champion. We look forward to Rory Rule shortly following in the father and son tradition established by Reg and Tom Clark, Euan and Adam Rae, John and Neil Clark, Tom and Chris Goddard and Rob and George Jolliffe . We have been extremely lucky with our club sponsors throughout our existence, beginning with DHL International in our first year through to our new main sponsor from this season Lowendalmasaï - one particular highlight was the ‘Lara Croft’ shirts designed and donated by computer games maker Eidos who were our sponsors in 1998-2000 – something that made the front pages of the Richmond local papers. The social side of the game isn’t so much the most important part of the club, as the very reason for its existence. Current members who enjoy our now legendary annual Christmas Carol singalong at the Lamb & Flag in Covent Garden may be unaware that the event is a civilised evolution of an earlier one – the ‘Bacchanalian Challenge’, the rules Ross Dunlop’s ‘Juggernaut XV’, 1985/86 of which , as drafted by founder member Tim Jones are reproduced in this brochure. The Heavies and managed not only to win our first three annual games against them but also Challenge was contested for the Sparkford Vale Harriers Ladies Point to Point Adjacent Hunts to deny them an unbeaten season on each occasion – something which installed a certain Race Trophy, originally presented by Tony Watkinson at the inaugural (and thankfully only bite to the fixture ever after. as it transpired) game at Clifton RFC in 1988 against a ‘Bristol Doctors XV’ - a side which in In the early years of league rugby we entered the Surrey Leagues and won two lower addition to featuring bona fide medics such as Tony and England full back Jonathan Webb, divisional titles with an unbeaten record before having to drop out in year 3 partly due to the was full of ringers from Bath and Bristol 1st XVs, including Stuart Barnes. The trophy was last fact that the scheduling demands became more onerous (‘away on January 2nd? No thanks’) seen in the Playa Major in Madrid being used as a football in the spirit of John Jeffreys and and a partly due to our inability to conform with the player registration and form filling Dean Richards following the tour hosted by Tim and his erstwhile club Cisneros RFC during requirements. The end came when Surrey RFU refused to accept ‘Fred the Aussie barman at the now obscure Spanish-Canadian ‘Halibut War’ of 1995. Following a Friday lunchtime visit The Sun’ as one of the entries on our by then mandatory post match team sheet submission by Marcus and Steff to a leading West End outfitter one touring party member at any time (‘sorry, no we don’t know his second name...we recruited him 10 minutes before kick off’). It had to wear a full Canadian Mountie uniform throughout the weekend – what larks. CLUB CAPTAINS: Rupert Vessey | Dave Bucknall | David Williams | Rod Murchison | Tom Saywell | John Purcell 25 Having partly had its origins in a bachelor weekend, the club has always had a strong Another remarkable annual event which the club has supported is Jim and Anna side line in such events – Huw Owen’s to St Foix La Grande in the Dordogne in 1994, Tony Parton’s Piotrowice Nyskie International Rugby Festival staged on their estate in Silesia Watkinson’s spectacular stag in Prague in 1993 not along after the fall of communism, and on the Polish/Czech border for the last three years. The event was remarkably shortlisted Rupert Vessey’s bachelor weekend game at Iffley Road in 1990 spring to mind in particular. It alongside the English Premiership Final and the Las Vegas Sevens for Rugby Event of the Year has gone on moreover, rather unusually, to stage games as part of wedding festivities. The at the 2012 Rugby Expo at Twickenham. With the judicious use of copious amounts of ringers best example of this would be the tour to South Africa in 2008 crafted around the magnificent we have managed to win the Mens XVs section of this event for the Jones Lang LaSalle nuptial celebrations of Cliffy and Louisa when we finished up with a game against University Trophy in 2011 and 2013, finishing runners up in 2012. A crack at the Mens VIIs is now overdue. of Cape Town Old Boys in the magnificent setting of the UCT ground at Groot Schur (having Sevens has never been an important part of the club’s ambitions, but we have had played the same opponents at the same venue in 1998). The theme had been pioneered by sporadic bursts of activity on this front. A vivid memory is of Eddie Quist-Arcton sprinting Jim Parton who decided that his marriage to Anna in the world famous underground cathedral away for what would have been the winning score against the hosts to win the Ealing in the saltmine at Wieliczka near Kracow in 2006, should qualifying event for the Middlesex Sevens in 1989 only be followed the next day by a game against the Juvenia to snap an achilles in a career ending injury. Alex Club. In perhaps the most extraordinary weekend in the Hambly and others again in later years got within a history of the club, the celebrations were interrupted by shade of qualifying for the finals of the same event. the subsequent decision of Pope Benedict XVI to visit In recent years Matt Gupta has put together a young Kracow very that weekend, and the game took place on squad which has had remarkable success . Thanks to the same common where the pontiff had conducted mass the support of our Dubai based sponsor Move One we for over 1 million people an hour before. A swift visit to have been finalists in 2011 and semi-finalists in 2012 a ‘off licence’ straight off the plane under the guidance of the International Open Competition of the Dubai of Juvenia just managed to beat the 48 ban on alcohol Sevens, a tremendous achievement . We have also purchasing imposed for the visit of His Holiness, and both won the Plate in 2011 and 2013 and Shield in 2012 of the the wedding and the rest of the tour passed off in normal Surrey County Sevens and the ‘Barrel’ competition in fashion in this respect, including an impromptu game of 2011 of the National Pub Sevens in Harpenden (trophy naked sevens following the usual round of post match now resplendent in the Lamb & Flag), and the Plate in vodka toasts. We also managed a 33-31 victory with a last Rob Jolliffe’s ‘Bachelor XV’, March 1988 2012 and Plate runners up in 2013 at the Middlesex Club minute try – in the fully clothed XVs game. Jim and Anna’s Sevens. wedding was also the occasion for current club Chairman and erstwhile captain Chris Stone to All of this is a sign perhaps of the fact that our playing base is markedly younger that meet his future wife Emmy, and whilst on the occasion of their subsequent wedding at Thonon when the club was founded. As the game has become increasingly professional it has les Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva, we decided (it being mid summer) to restrict ourselves polarised and young players in London have even starker ‘no train no play’ regime and to a touch tournament against Thonon RFC the night before, inevitably this developed punishing September to May continuous fixture lists imposed on them even by modest courtesy of testosterone and stupidity into a XV a side full on match, which we shaded 10-5. clubs. We are therefore now increasingly recruiting players straight from university and in Thankfully Stoner survived intact. their mid 20’s with our late season start, relaxed attitude “Available for bachelor weekends, weddings , to availability and long mid season break , all combined christenings, bar mitzvahs, clubhouse openings and with high playing standards and a quality social scene. anniversary celebrations” was one of the club’s early We have the proud and I think unique boast in the world straplines, and due to a strong Oxford orientation the of rugby – KORFC has never, ever, staged a training 25 clubhouse opening of Littlemore RFC and the 50th session – this continues to have its attractions for many. anniversary game of Witney were amongst the events Despite the club having strong connections with Oxford, we supported in our early years. We had an echo of Cambridge, Dublin and many other leading universities it this when in a tribute to our long term supporter, OURFC is a resolutely open club which has attracted players from stalwart and President of Grove RFC in Oxfordshire, many backgrounds and countries – including for example Gwyndaf Evans, we played in Grove’s 40th Anniversary not only our three All Blacks but also a stream of Kiwis game in the final game of last season, which featured such as Stewart Eru, Duncan Sandlant, Dean Palmer, Sam a KORFC comeback for former OURFC , Australia and Cottier, Michael Flatman, Neil Toy, Steve Neill, Will Donald, Barbarians captain Bill Calcraft who had last turned out for us in the Vessey bachelor game. ‘Jimbo’ Hunt and Richard Baird. KORFC has never actively sought to include famous players in our ranks but we are There are many other highlights I have not touched upon – the visit of Andy Hobart’s lucky that on occasion it has happened. We are proud to include two All Black captains, New Orleans RFC during the 1991 Rugby World Cup, our victory over the Austrian national David Kirk and Anton Oliver, in our roster, and as above Lions, England and Rosslyn Park side at the Rauris Festival near Salzburg in 2008, our win over the touring West Japan side legend Andy Ripley played for us in our inaugural year. Our full internationals are listed at Iffley Road in 1991 and last but not least our record 15 match winning streak last season, elsewhere in this brochure and an honourable mention must be made of three England B which included a series of outstanding performances against Sandhurst, Barnes and players – Tony Watkinson, Peter Enevoldson and Rory ‘Bosher’ Jenkins for their contribution London Scottish and our club dinner hosted by Colonel Orr at the Tower of London. to the club. We have a particular fondness for 1991 Australian World Cup winner and current The club may have changed its nickname from the ‘Cockies’ to the ‘Kews’ and a Wallaby Team Manager Bob Egerton, who is the only person to play for KORFC both before Cambridge stripe may have crept into the club tie, much to the chagrin of at least one of and after becoming a full international. the founders, but we arrive at our 25th anniversary in the rudest of health, with last season Bob latterly played in the 2008 Oku Trophy game against London Japanese when arguably our best ever. This is a very personal account of the origins and subsequent we combined our side with a 20 year pre Varsity Match reunion of the 1988 Oxford side – history of the club – there will no doubt be many people who have contributed hugely considered by many to be the best ever. The Oku Trophy has been contested by ourselves, over the years and who will not receive the credit they deserve in these pages, for which London Japanese and other opponents in late November/early December each year since apologies. The club has given an inordinate amount of satisfaction and fun to those who 2005 when we got together to honour the memory of Ambassador Katsuhiko Oku, who have engaged with it in various ways and to different levels of intensity over the years - was a member of both clubs and was tragically assassinated in Iraq in 2003 when on most importantly lifelong friendships have been made and strengthened. Long may this diplomatic duty. This annual event staged with our close friends at London Japanese now continue. I can only finish with the immortal lines penned by our Honorary Life Patron takes place each year at Iffley Road courtesy of Oxford University RFC (and in particular Rudyard Kipling (deceased) which for me say it all: General Manager Tim Stevens to whom continued thanks) for whom Katsu was the first “The wildest dreams of Kew, are the facts of Kathmandu”. Percy Topliss. Japanese national to represent the Blues XV, and is an important part of our season. 25Richard Horrocks-Taylor | Chris Stone | Niall D’Arcy | Stewart Eru | Ben Thompson | Eric Gleave | Tom Clark | Tom Quayle Record victory over Sandhurst, 2012
‘Shagger Williams’ All-Stars defeat combined HK Services to win the Bowl at the Hong Kong 10’s, 1992
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Jim and Anna’s extraordinary wedding celebrations, Krakow, 2006
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Matt Gupta’s squad and Move One supporters, celebrating reaching the final of the Dubai 7s International Open, 2011 Semi-finalists, Dubai International Open 2012
The National Pub 7’s Barrel Trophy, 2011 on display at the Lamb & Flag, Covent Garden Suurey County 7s Plate Winners, 2013
Dave O’Brien’s team defeated Afghanistan and lost 28-21 to Cambridge University in the Bowl Final at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 7s at Oxford, 2012 and helped donate a scrum machine and other training equipment to the Khelo Rugby Charity in Calcutta Argentina tour 2012 Piotrowice Nyskie International Rugby Festival
Captain Chris Bucknall receives the Jones Lang LaS alle trophy from John Duckworth, 2011
Rob Reynolds captains Kew against Vienna Celtic, 2012
Simon Boyden receives JLL trophy after we win the X V’s competition, 2013 ynn comes a close second. Warsaw Frogs Ladies win the fancy dress prize, 2013... Anth L Oku trophy
OKU TROPHY 2005 -2009
～ For our memories and friendship ～
COMMEMORATIVE RECEPTION, EMBASSY OF JAPAN IN THE UK, NOVEMBER 26TH 2009 6.30-8.30PM AND AFTER PARTY AT YOISHO, 33 GOODGE ST, LONDON W1.
Special Thanks to:
We also would like to thank the following clubs for their kind messages and contributions to this event: Paris Japanese RFC (France), Düsselfdorf Japanese RFC (Germany), NY All Japan RFC (USA), Chicago Japan RFC (USA), Seattle Raccoons RFC (USA), LA Godzilla RFC (USA), Algeria Japan RFC (Algeria, Africa), Amsterdam Japanese RFC (Netherlands), Dalian Elks RFC (China), Shanghai Twin Dragons RFC (China), Shenyang Japan RFC (China) Bacchanalian Challenge and christmas carols
The last recorded sighting of the Sparkford Vale Harriers Ladies Point-to-Point Adjacent Hunts Race Trophy as Tim Jones accepts the Bacchanalian Challenge, Madrid airport 1995
The tradition continues at the club’s annual carol singalong at the Lamb & Flag, as reported in City AM (below)
Jason Leonard presents the club with an RFU Presidents Award, 2013 KORFC would like to thank all of its past sponsors for their support: DHL INTERNATIONAL NANDOS EIDOS CAPITAL MSL CUBANA MILKROUND.COM TORTIN CAPITAL 25PURCELL & CO
Hugh Owen stag weekend, St Foix-La-Grande 19 v Kew 23, July 1994
Versus London French
The ultimate Hon. Sec. on tour
Versus RMA Sandhurst
Versus Vincent’s Club, Oxford
We beat Austrian National XV, 2008
Versus Hawks Club, Cambridge CLUB DINNER, OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE CLUB, 1990
Dublin tour, 2011
Club Dinner, Tower of London, 2012 Moscow, 2002 Daily Telegraph, 27th March 1991
Hugo Walford Topliss Trophy winner, 2012/13
Previous winners: 1988-89 Marcus Rule 1989-90 Richard Dixon 1990-91 John Coulter 1992-93 William Frewen 1993-94 Mark Cleary 1994-95 Tim Robinson 1995-96 Neil Standen 1996-97 Steffan Williams 1997-98 Rod Murchison 1998-99 Murray Wilson 1999-00 Yutaka Yazawa 2000-01 Jim Parton 2001-02 John Purcell 2002-03 Charlie Wijeratna 2003-04 Cliff McGovern 2004-05 Richie Heaslip 2005-06 Chris Stone 2006-07 Chris Collins 2007-08 Tom Hughes 2008-09 Chris Bucknall 2009-10 Richard Bartholomew 2010-11 Oli Low 2011-12 Ed White 2012-13 Hugo Walford Tour to Kobe, Japan, September 1990 KORFC would like to thank: Simon Pearson-Miles at Sterling Financial Printers www.sterlingfp.com and to Duncan Olner at Olner Pro Sport Media www.olner-psm.com for the production of this anniversary brochure.