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BSRFC OFFICAL MATCH PROGRAMME BISHOP’S STORTFORD RFC vs LONDON IRISH WILD GEESE CATCH ME IF YOU CAN MATT TOMLINSON ROUNDS TWO CANTERBURY DEFENDERS TO SCORE THE BRITISH & IRISH LIONS A RIGHT RUCKING FUDDLE (£5.00 FOR BSRFC MEMBERS) £10.00 LONDONIRISHWILDGEESE Helpfully Productive Bringing together print technology, digital wizardry and marketing mastery to help you work wonders with your communications. Talk to us about why it really is better printed. #makingmagichappen 01279 757 333 proco.com PRESIDENT’S WELCOME Welcome once again everyone to Silver Leys particularly the Players, Officials and supporters of London Irish Wild Geese Rugby Club, along with everyone associated with Elms BMW, our Match Day sponsors & Bit Solutions, our Man of the Match sponsors. Last Saturday saw us convert our game in hand into the full five league points and in doing so we climbed above Chinnor into 1st place in the table. In truth it was a bit of a strange game, more akin to a preseason friendly in the way the teams took it in turns to score seemingly at will. Hopefully things will settle down a little this week and our defence will regain its normal miserly form. And they may need to because our visitors today the Wild Geese have a reputation for spreading their wings & playing expansive rugby, at times to their own detriment. But that should of course mean that we spectators are in for a real treat. For much of the season LIWG seem to have gone under the radar- neither threatening the top or bottom of the league. But as the teams near the foot of the table have begun to wake up to the reality of relegation they have inexorably been dragged into the dog fight. They currently sit just one point above the drop zone and this will of course give them, even though it probably isn’t needed, added motivation to spoil our day. Away from the 1st XV at the time of writing we have a two other games at home today. Our Blues take on London Scottish RFC & our Chindits –Weston RFC. Our Abbotts are unfortunately without a game. Meanwhile our Mitres (3rd XV) who today travel to Letchworth, have had a tough time of late in terms of actually getting to play games. Far too many fixtures have, for a variety of reasons, gone un- played. Their match on 18th Feb against Fullerians was their first since 10th December! That clearly is far from ideal and I know representations have been made in the hope that a solution can be found. We are not alone in experiencing this difficulty, indeed our Nat 2 South rivals Exmouth RFC have earlier this week submitted some proposals of their own to Devon RFU aimed at addressing the lack of competitive fixtures for their 2nd & 3rd XV’s. A couple of seasons ago we recognised that energising & challenging our Blues was a key to building a stronger 1st XV. It’s apparent that we now need to do the same thing for our Mitres! Tomorrow our U18’s travel to Chinnor in the last 16 of the National Colts Cup competition. We of course wish them all the best for what promises to be a closely fought encounter. Finally at some point today you may be approached by one of the organisers of our U13 tour to Dublin this April wishing to sell you some raffle tickets. To date they’ve raised in excess of £3000 toward the costs of the trip that will involve the majority of the lads in the age group but need a little bit more in order to reach their target and keep the individual costs affordable for all. They have two fixtures arranged against Malahide RFC and Old Suttonians RFC. Please look kindly upon them and give generously. Your support of their efforts is greatly appreciated. Whichever of the (hopefully) three games you choose to watch I hope you have a great day with us here at Silver Leys COYB! 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Well last week you were treated to 76 points, which really was credit to the way both sides approached the game, we always knew that Canterbury would come to play and they didn’t disappoint. I thought that we produced some of our best attacking shape last week and the lads are transferring the hard work in training into performances at the weekend. We were obviously slightly disappointed to concede as many points as we did last week and realise we’ll need to be better as we move into the final part of the season. ELMS STANSTED, YOUR Our away fixture against the Wild Geese produced 66 points so again we face a side that wants to play LOCAL BMW RETAILER. rugby and we know we have to continue to balance confidence with vigilance. SPONSORS OF BISHOP’S STORTFORD RFC. Enjoy the game and please make plenty of noise. As an authorised BMW Retailer, Elms Stansted offers the highest levels of service and Andy Long expertise to the local area. 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The creation of London Irish Amateur was first discussed in 1995 when rugby union became professional and London Irish set aside resources for the creation of an amateur team. In 1996 the arrival of the professional game affected LI more than most. After many meetings it was decided to form an Amateur club to run alongside the professional outfit The club was founded in September 1999 after London Irish left The Avenue to play at the Twickenham Stoop before moving to Madejski Stadium in Reading the following year. It was formed to be the feeder club for senior and junior amateur players to then go on to play for London Irish. What better name for the 1stXV than Wild Geese, a name already synonymous with the club In 2011, they were promoted from London 1 into National League 3 London & SE. In 2012, they were moved into National League 3 South West,.In 2013, they were promoted into National League 2 .South Having had rapid promotion over the past four/five years, season 2016/17 looks to have been a season for reappraisal. But results since Christmas must have been disappointing. When Bishop’s Stortford played them in November they attacked at every opportunity and were leading by 17 points when Stortford gradually took over possession and territory running out ultimate winners 31 - 36. 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