Midlands 1 East 2019 / 20 Season

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Welcome to Old Northamptonians RFC 2019 / 2020

It is my great pleasure to greet over 100 guests for the first Vice Presidents luncheon of this season - a tremendous effort once again by Pip and Pete, to get this number of people sitting down to eat - hope we all have a good day. Today sees the return of league rugby to Billing Road, after the highs and one very big low of the Rugby World Cup finals in Japan (if you’re an England supporter!). However, it was great to see the clubhouse absolutely packed from 8am last Saturday, with young and old there to support England, enjoying their pre match breakfast (solid or liquid!).

A very warm welcome to the officials, players & supporters of Melbourne, from Derby- shire, both ONs 1st & 2nd teams opponents today. They are newly promoted this season & to my knowledge, we have never played them before - certainly not in the league. We currently lie 5th, Melbourne 10th but league positions will count for little today I’m sure. Last week ONs 3rds & 4ths did play but with differing outcomes, but ONs 1sts had a welcome break having suffered a disappointing loss in the horrendous conditions at Mar- ket Harborough the week before. Not only did this give some a deserved rest but im- portantly others of the many injured 1st team squad members a chance to recover.

We also welcome Wellingborough Colts, who will play the ONs Academy in the EMRU Referees Cup at the earlier kick- off time of 12.30pm. Our Academy has been enjoying a very successful season (yet again), they are unbeaten in their EM League and having despatched Bedford next Saturday are in the National Cup 2nd Round.

Thanks to East Midlands Referees Society for providing the match officials today: Andy Beckett in control of the 1sts & James Nimmo looking after the Colts, 2nd team ref is TBC. We hope they also enjoy their afternoon & any well-intentioned touch line advice/banter!

Let me sign off wishing everybody a great day & a reminder about the Annual President`s Christmas Dinner on Saturday 21st December, when Rugby Lions are the visitors, by which time we hope to have the impressive new changing rooms open for business.

Peter “Jack” Doughty, Old Northamptonians RFC President

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Rory Seymour * 15 Sam Hancock

James Edmondson * 14 Josh Mallet Rhys Evans * 13 Joe Stuart Alex Crofts * (Captain) 12 Andy Martin Jake Spencer * 11 Josh Beech

Tyler Mills * 10 Euan Holden Ross Kevan * 9 Oliver Page

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Replacements:

OT Edwards * 16 Alex Parnell Jon Liburd * 17 Matt Suddaby Jake Varney * 18 Jack Brough

Head of Playing: Richard Blank * Director of Rugby: Matt Derbyshire Club Coach: Mark Kefford Head Coach: Gary Rudkin Backs Coach: Nabs Suma Coach: George Dickenson Team Manager: Richard Bosworth Sports Therapist: Sarah Upsall Match Physio: Sophie Slope *

* indicates M&J/Academy Graduate

Today’s Match Referee: Andrew Beckett, East Midlands Society MIDLANDS 1 EAST 2019 / 20 SEASON

Results Saturday 26th October 2019

Derby 20 - 13 Oundle Lutterworth 32 - 3 Olney Market Harborough 26 - 10 Old Northamptonians Melbourne P (30th Nov) Oadby Wyggestonian Towcestrians 10 - 26 Rugby Lions Wellingborough 5 - 10 Peterborough West Bridgford P (30th Nov) Syston

League Table as at 8th November

Team P W D L F A +/- TB LB Pts 1 Derby 8 8 0 0 315 148 167 5 0 37 2 Syston 7 7 0 0 289 112 177 7 0 35 3 Oundle 8 6 0 2 253 117 136 5 1 30 4 Lutterworth 8 6 0 2 253 144 109 3 1 28 5 Old Northamptonians 8 5 0 3 224 198 26 6 1 27 6 West Bridgford 7 4 0 3 208 204 4 5 1 22 7 Rugby Lions 8 4 0 4 215 226 -11 4 1 21 8 Market Harborough 8 3 1 4 251 237 14 4 2 20 9 Peterborough 8 3 0 5 176 229 -53 4 2 18 10 Oadby Wyggestonian 7 3 0 4 205 208 -3 5 0 17 11 Towcestrians 8 1 1 6 170 271 -101 4 1 11 12 Melbourne 7 1 0 6 147 213 -66 2 1 7 13 Olney 8 1 0 7 117 321 -204 2 1 7 14 Wellingborough 8 1 0 7 83 278 -195 0 1 5

As Syston’s game was postponed Derby take over top spot with a narrow win over 3rd placed Oundle – it will be interesting to see what happens now their “all-weather” 4G pitch has disappeared down the River Derwent!

Lutts big win over struggling Olney means they move up to 4th with ONs dropping to 5th, having lost at Harborough as a result of a combination of not scoring enough points when dominant & then letting disputable decisions get the better of them. Just 5 points then separate the next 5 sides below them in the table, keeping it very tight in the chasing pack in the middle of the table.

All the bottom 4 have to date only managed 1 win each, though our visitors today have a game in hand, having also been called off 2 weeks ago. Wellingborough are starting to fight their way off the bottom beating fellow strugglers Olney 3 weeks ago & then getting a losing bonus point 2 weeks ago while just losing 10-5 to Peterborough. With Tows sure to improve their form & certainly Olney & Melbourne are better sides than their position shows, I can’t see the table ending as it is especially as the heavy pitches have their equalising effect.

Fixtures Friday 8th / Saturday 9th November 2019

Friday: Oadby Wyggestonian V West Bridgford Old Northamptonians V Melbourne Olney V Market Harborough Oundle V Lutterworth Peterborough V Derby Syston V Towcestrians Rugby Lions V Wellingborough O.N.R.F.C 1st XV Fixtures 2019 / 20

Saturday Kick offs: 3.00 pm Sept/Oct/Mar/Apr, 2.15 pm Nov – Feb

Score Date 1st XV League & Cup Fixtures Venue Result F A Sep-07 Peterborough H W 31 30 Sep-14 Rugby Lions A W 35 14 Sep-21 Syston H L 25 29 Fri Sep-27 Towcestrians (7.30pm KO) A W 35 17 Oct-05 Wellingborough H W 35 12 Oct-12 Derby A L 31 55 Oct-19 Lutterworth H W 22 15 Oct-26 Market Harborough A L 26 10 Thu Oct-31 Wellingborough (EMRU Cup) A W Walkover Nov-09 Melbourne H Nov-16 Oadby Wyggestonian A Nov-23 West Bridgford H Nov-30 FREE LEAGUE WEEK Dec-07 Olney H Dec-14 Oundle A Dec-21 Rugby Lions H Dec-28 FREE LEAGUE WEEK (Xmas) Jan-04 Syston A Jan-11 Towcestrians H Fri Jan-18 Wellingborough (7.30pm KO) A Jan-25 FREE LEAGUE WEEK Feb-01 Derby H Feb-08 Lutterworth A Feb-15 Market Harborough H Feb-22 FREE LEAGUE WEEK Feb-29 Melbourne A Mar-07 Oadby Wyggestonian H Mar-14 FREE LEAGUE WEEK Mar-21 West Bridgford A Mar-28 Olney A Apr-04 Oundle H Apr-11 FREE LEAGUE WEEK (Easter) Apr-18 Peterborough A SPONSORS OF OLD NORTHAMPTONIANS R.F.C. LADIES

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