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Contents Officers Welcome to Stourton Park, the home of President: MIKE BLACK Stourbridge Rugby Club. We hope that you Chairman: ROBIN EDWARDS enjoy your time here with us and look forward Hon. Sec: PAUL DAVIDSON to seeing you again in the future. Treasurer: CHRIS COOK Notes from the President 4 Staff Director’s Cut 7 Director of Rugby: NEIL MITCHELL Away Day - 8 Head of Marketing: LOUISE PRICE A Warm Welcome to... 15-16 Player Profile - Joe Collingham 18 Over 20 Years of Action from Loughborough 19 League Rugby Team Sheet & Forthcoming Events 20-21 STOURVIEW Action from Luctonians 25 Programme Editor: MILES EDGE Squad and Sponsorship Info 28-29 Photographs: CERI DAVIES, PAUL DAVIDSON and ANDY COOK Around the Leagues and 31 League Table Design and print: Stour Stats and Player Stats 36-37 Bloomfield Ltd. 01789 490528 Physio Q&A... Rob Thynne 38 See our advert on page 29 www.stourbridgerugby.com “COME ON STOUR!” 3 STOURVIEW 2019-2020 Notes from The President Welcome everyone to Stourton Park and the second home game of the 2019- 20 season. Today, we are hosting Hull RUFC, Hull remain unbeaten after besting Tynedale and I look forward to meeting their President and fellow committee members, players and supporters. Hull, like us, are unbeaten and I have no doubt that a great lift for them a much better performance than Vs it will be a good contest, with both sides striving to Kenilworth. Training with 1st XV is starting to bear fruit remain unbeaten. Whatever the result rugby will always and the link with the 1st team is working well with three be the winner. loan players and new “boy” Jonathon Hughes scoring When the fixtures were published it looked like a three tries! They travel to today and we wish tough start to the season when we were drawn against them well in their endeavour to bag more points. Loughborough, but the team showed their class and All sections of the club seem to be thriving and Mark were victorious with some style 31-20, with five tries. does a great job keeping us well informed with the Second up of course was Luctonians, fresh from taking In Touch facility, but like other sections of the club the points against Tynedale and in the process scoring volunteers are always needed, so if you feel that you six tries. can contribute please offer your time and energy, it will On home turf, cheered on by their supporters, including be greatly appreciated. some 200 well refreshed diners, Luctonians were 12-0 After some two years or so the President’s suite is after 10 minutes, but Stour knuckled down and slowly almost complete now that the new bar has been but surely turned the tide with their effort and craft, installed, many thanks to all that have been involved, supported by the few faithful travellers, conceding only not only with their time and enthusiasm but also their five more points and eventually running out winners generous donations. by a margin of 26 points, scoring seven tries in the As a Club, we are always looking to maximise our process. Well done guys, a top result. facilities and we are looking to have more social events Next week we travel to Otley who have not started during the year, which will be posted as and when they well but is always a difficult place to win and as always are confirmed. If you have an idea for a social then it would be a great boost if we could raise enough please feel free to share it with me, Miles or Donna support for the coach, which needs circa 24 supporters initially and hopefully we can develop the idea together travelling to be viable and the team greatly appreciate and make it happen. the time that supporters give up and your vocal support. As always the coach list is on the notice board, C’mon Stour! with a conveniently positioned pen should you wish to join the supporter’s coach. The Lions running out comfortable and worthy winners Mike Black at home against Kidderminster Carolians by 46 -17 was President

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he victory at Mortimer Park had Max the very best in his future ventures. Supported by particular relevance for Alex Max brought some good ideas to the table, Davidson their former DoR and some of which we have adopted and I am our now First Team Coach. Davo sure he will go on to coach rugby at the Twas ceremonially pushed out at Luctoninas very highest level. a few seasons back to be replaced by Our opposition this afternoon Hull are two young charges who saw Luctonians newly promoted to National Two returning relegated in their first season at the after a couple of seasons out. They are a helm. After years of dedicated service, he very strong outfit across the board and will hardly had a mention in Saturdays match provide the stiffest challenge we have had programme so the comprehensive victory so far. The league after two games has no over his former club meant a great deal to reflection on true standings and we are a him. I know the Carling tasted a lot sweeter long way off where we want the side to be. to him on Saturday evening than it did with Alex and I both feel that how we fair this his last pint at the club ! afternoon gives us a solid benchmark of The Lions victory against Kidderminster the pre-season work. was a big confidence boost following Finally, welcome to the Ladies who are a heavy defeat to a very strong and attending the lunch today and thanks experienced Kenilworth the previous week. to Lou for getting this off the ground With both Arthur Morgan and Jess Smith again. I hope we see some new playing against their former club is was a faces who will continue to enjoy the big day for them and the guys put in an Stourton experience. Next season excellent all-round performance. John the way society is going this may be Hughes the former South full known as non-binary day so enjoy it back crossed the line on four occasions to whilst it lasts! round off an excellent debut appearance and many of the individual performances Enjoy the afternoon and at Stourton Park last weekend showed the focus and work ethic that the Lions are enjoy the game developing this season. The joint training between the two squads is starting to reap the benefits and thus far it has exceeded my expectations in regard Neil Mitchell to where I expected both teams to be at Director of this stage of the season. The sudden exit of Rugby First Team Coach Max Stelling following the opening weekend has not impacted on the squad, in fact it has galvanised it. We wish

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Contributed by Miles Edge Away Day Luctonians 19 - 45 Stourbridge Mortimer Park However close our local league is it must be the only away trip where sea sickness without seeing any water is a factor as we wend our way through the leafy lanes of Worcestershire and . Little has changed outwardly at Mortimer Park since our last visit two seasons ago although there have been extensive upgrades to their club room hosting on the day some 200 guests. The pitch was in immaculate condition unlike the quagmire that we have experienced in previous years. The Team With Rodders and Reece unavailable Monty started at 7 and Mark Harrison at 14. With the returning Chris Depper on the bench. An injury Devotion to Duty to Chad meant that Mark George came on after Ceri Davies, who on previous occasions had 20 minutes and with Joe Collingham limping cycled there and back could not make the trip, Depper played a full 40 minutes. so Andy Cook upstaged him with his camera by making the journey on his Vespa to provide us with his pictures. For those interested the The Game journey takes one hour and ten minutes on a Five minutes in and they had clocked up two scooter. tries, one of which was converted and the natives were going ape screaming for more. That was not the case in the final five minutes when Membership Reminder the natives excepting those who, crestfallen Just a nudge to everyone you know that and despondent, had sloped off some ten Membership Subscriptions are due now. minutes earlier had turned completely mute. The Joe’s Heatley and Collingham clocked up our three first half tries the pick of which Bonfire and Fireworks was Joe Collingham driving through three Friday 1st November defenders wide out on the left. The second half Please let Louise know in the office of any tries belonged to Jack Lea returning to form help you can give us on the night and the and three more from the backs Rundle, George clear up on Saturday morning prior to the Morgan and Afi. home game against Wharfedale.

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Hull RUFC Contributed by Dave Garratt Today we extend our usual warm welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Hull RUFC. Their home is the Ferens ground in Chanterlands Avenue, about 3 miles north west of Hull city centre, and around 150 miles from Stourton Park. We last hosted them in the 2014- 15 season and this will their fourth visit to us for a league game League break away in the 1890s. Players that wanted King’s Town: to play amateur reformed the Hull club City of Culture and Rugby in 1901. The present club has a short history, being The City of , usually referred to formed in 1992 following a series of mergers. simply as Hull, takes its name from a Royal Charter granted by Edward I in 1299, naming the settlement as “King’s Town Upon Hull”. The City stands on the Margers and the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, Foundation of Hull RUFC 25 miles from the North Sea. The Hull Blitz of World In 1989 Hull and East Riding RUFC merged with War II brought one of the heaviest bombardments Ionians RUFC to form RUFC. The new seen by any city outside of London, the centre club took Riding’s league status in Division North being almost totally destroyed. Decline after post One. war rebuilding saw a conflict of an entirely different Not all of the Hull and East Riding membership were nature, the cod wars of 1975-76, contributing to happy with the Ionians merger. A number of the Hull’s decline. members (28%) voted against the merger and then However, the new millennium brought a spending reformed the club, using the same name but with boom in retail and commercial sectors, offices, the addition of the year of formation, so becoming housing and public services. The redevelopment Hull and East Riding RUFC (1989) The new club was culminated in Hull being chosen as the UK City of given membership in the lowest tier of the Culture for 2017. During their year’s term, as the UK County Rugby Union, in Yorkshire Division six. City of Culture, Hull hosted over 2,000 events leading Three years later (1st July 1992) Hull RUFC was to Arts Council declaring it as a “rip-roaring, formed as a result of a merger between the awe inspiring success”. fledging Hull and East Riding RUFC (1989) and With four rugby clubs playing in the city Hull is surely Old Hymerians RUFC. The new club took over the defined as a rugby city. There are two rugby union tenancy of the Old Hymerians ground at Haworth teams, today’s visitors Hull RUFC, and Hull Ionians, Park, along with their league status in North East and two teams, Hull RFC and Hull Div.2. The new club stayed at until Kingston Rovers. the end of the 2007-08 season, moving to the Ferens Ground for the next season. Early Rugby History Although Hull and East Riding were formed in 1901 Hull and the Leagues their history has links back as far as 1875. The exact The team was competitive in their first few seasons sequence of events during the gap between 1875 but suffered from a league reorganisation that and 1901 is unclear but it is believed the original ...continued over Hull Rugby Union Club was part of the Rugby www.stourbridgerugby.com “COME ON STOUR!” 15 STOURVIEW 2019-2020 Hull RUFC A Warm Welcome (continued) demoted them a level after finishing 8th at the 2014-15 end of the 1996-97 season. They bounced back Hull 18 27 Stourbridge immediately the next season to win their first Stourbridge 53 22 Hull promotion. An excellent campaign in 2000-01 brought further success and promotion to Div.2 North East. A further promotion followed in 2003- Today’s Game 04 when, with just a single defeat, they topped the Best of luck to both teams but, whilst we extend pre table. and post match hospitality to our visitors, especially They consolidated their position over the next on their return to Stourton Park after a four year four seasons, before completing a remarkable rise absence, we do not want the hospitality to extend through the lower leagues, returning to the National onto the pitch! We would rather Stour continue the leagues (tier 4) with another promotion, via the play- form shown in previous Stourton Park encounters. offs, at the end of the 2008-09 season. Following their arrival in National 2 North they performed consistently well, finishing in the top A Hull Trivia Gem (of a loo) half of the table for their first four seasons. Their Only the best trivia is used in the production of these form then dipped as they slipped to finish just one programmes and this one was quoted in the national position above the relegation places in 2013-14. press in august this year, as opposed to being found as However, they could not stave off relegation for a an internet “fact”. second season, finishing bottom but one they were relegated at the end of 2014-15. The public toilet at Hull’s Victoria Pier made the Last season, Hull made their return to tier 4 and Lonely Planet’s Travel Guide’s List of 500 “unmissable the National leagues by storming to the Northern experiences and hidden gems” in the UK. The facility Premier title; losing just 2 of 24 games they left was also described as “elegant” and “well designed” by second placed 19 points adrift. Historic England.

Previous Clashes Hull Rugby Legend We have met Hull in three previous, consecutive Clive Sullivan became a rugby league legend of Hull. seasons; the first was in 2012-13 following our Born in Cardiff he pursued his rugby career in Hull, relegation to National 2 North. The last season appearing for both league teams. He scored 250 tries was the 2014-15 season that ended in Hull’s from 352 appearances for Hull RFC and 118 from 123 relegation from the National leagues to level 5. Their appearances for . He was the promotion last year brings us face to face again. We first black player to captain a national representative hold the whip hand in head to head clashes as we team in any major UK sport, leading Great Britain to have won all six encounters. All our games brought rugby league world cup success in 1972, scoring a us try bonus points but whilst our home wins try in each of their four games. Tragically he died in were by big margins our trips to Hull have proved 1985 aged just 42. anything but easy.

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t was pretty obvious that rugby made the right decision in retrospect” was the sport for Joe when he England cricket captain and all that. joined Nottingham club Paviors As a rugby player Joe – despite being as a three year old, though oddly, a perpetual forward – had two three Ilater in his sporting career, he was quarters as his sporting heroes. to trial for England Schoolboys at “Jonah Lomu and Brian O’Driscoll, for both rugby and cricket. “We have sure. Absolute greats.” Perhaps Joe’s always been piano smashers, not regard for a winger and centre explain piano tuners or players, in our family. his appearance at Stourbridge. POSITION: I followed my elder brother Oliver “I was playing serious rugby – at Number 8 into the minis, and he – like dad Chris Nottingham and others for ten years, also played in the pack.” Good move, but was falling out of love with the HEIGHT: 6’ 5” but also better mention mum Sally, game I guess. Then I started playing WEIGHT: 117kg classic rugby widow, Joe. sevens and after a game where I put As a cricketer, Joe had been a fast in a pretty good hit on Ben Foden BORN: 14th November 1991, bowler but a damaged shoulder as in a tournament, some invitations the result of a car accident put paid followed. Next thing I know I was EDUCATED: Worksop and Trent College OCCUPATION: Property Developer Player Profile PREVIOUS CLUBS: Paviors, Nottingham, Moseley REPRESENTATIVE HONOURS: Notts, Lincs and JOE age group, North v South JOINED STOUR: Summer 2019 COLLINGHAM 1st XV DEBUT: 07/09/19 v to that. Eventually he turned to spin in playing for The Wailers in Loughborough w 31-20 bowling. But not before did that, he Kinsale in the same team as Stour’s had an odd decision to make one (some time centre) Joe Heatley and day as a sixteen year old. England (full time winger) Dan Rundle. They first two games including victory age group rugby trials or cricket? suggested trying out coming back to against Luctonians who had won He chose rugby over cricket, whilst the 15 man game at Stourton Park.” impressively in their first game away a good cricketing mate made the So far everything has gobe OK, but in the North East. opposite decision. “I guess Joe (Root) it does help when you have won the So, we have the Rugby World Cup around the corner, and many people’s attention will turn Eastward to Japan and the activities over the next six weeks. Club members will notice several viewings of RWC here at the club with breakfast thrown in. I for one will never forget that breakfast at SRFC in November 2003!! But hey ho, we’ve moved on. How does Joe see the RWC going? “I’m going for one of New Zealand, England or Wales to win it. You look at the World Cups that New Zealand should have won and didn’t… Could they bottle it again?” Possibly. We hope Joe and the team have another good day today and don’t make the same mistake.

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STOURVIEW 2019-2020 Around the Leagues Contributed by Miles Edge With no Premiership activity new boys Kenilworth have yet it is interesting to see how maximum points and at Today’s those who left us last year are the foot , faring so far this season. Hull Whitchuch and newcomers Fixtures... Ionians who were promoted to Kidderminster have yet to Preston Grasshoppers v National One have started with register a point. two huge losses firstly a 70-16 Scunthorpe drubbing away at Birmingham Today’s Fixtures Chester v Moseley and secondly at Too early in the season to Loughborough Students home last weekend losing predict many results today, Hinckley v 52-5 at home to but a win away for Luctonians Luctonians Mowden Park. Leicester Lions could leave Hinckley played who were level transferred to three lost three. Not the start Huddersfield v National Two south started aspiring Hinckley were seeking. Sedgley Park with an away 41-12 loss at Sheffield Tigers v Tonbridge Juddians but beat Caldy Old Albanians 38-7 at home with Luke Veebel getting their Stourbridge v Hull opening try. Of the sides that Tynedale v Otley were relegated Lions have lost their first two Wharfedale v Fylde games to and Burton, have LEAGUE TABLE - SSE National League 2 North beaten Morpeth and lost to Team Pld W D L F A PD TBP LBP Points Blaydon and the luckless and STOURBRIDGE 2 2 0 0 76 39 37 2 0 10 forlorn South Leicester lost CALDY 2 2 0 0 47 23 24 1 0 9

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7th September LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS (3.00pm) Home Won 31 20 14th September LUCTONIANS (3.00pm) Away Won 45 19 21st September HULL (3.00pm) Home 28th September OTLEY (3.00pm) Away 5th October SEDGLEY PARK (3.00pm) Home 12th October FYLDE (3.00pm) Away 19th October SCUNTHORPE (3.00pm) Home 26th October PRESTON GRASSHOPPERS (3.00pm) Away 2nd November WHARFEDALE (3.00pm) Home 9th November HUDDERSFIELD (3.00pm) Away 16th November TYNEDALE (3.00pm) Home 23rd November SHEFFIELD TIGERS (3.00pm) Home 30th November HINCKLEY (3.00pm) Away 7th December CHESTER (3.00pm) Home 14th December CALDY (3.00pm) Away 21st December LUCTONIANS (3.00pm) Home 4th January HULL (3.00pm) Away 11th January OTLEY (3.00pm) Home 18th January SEDGLEY PARK (3.00pm) Away 25th January FYLDE (3.00pm) Home 1st February SCUNTHORPE (3.00pm) Away 8th February PRESTON GRASSHOPPERS (3.00pm) Away 15th February WHARFEDALE (3.00pm) Home 29th February HUDDERSFIELD (3.00pm) Away 7th March TYNEDALE (3.00pm) Away 21st March SHEFFIELD TIGERS (3.00pm) Away 28th March HINCKLEY (3.00pm) Home 4th April CHESTER (3.00pm) Away 18th April CALDY (3.00pm) Home 24th April LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS (3.00pm) Away

36 “COME ON STOUR!” www.stourbridgerugby.com Player Stats 2019-2020 App Rep Tries Cons Pens Drops Pts BEDDOWS, Reece 1 0 COLLINGHAM, Joe 2 1 5 DEPPER, Chris 1 1 0 GEORGE, Mark 2 0 GRIFFITHS, Llyr 2 0 HARRISON, Mark 1 0 HEATLEY, Joe 2 4 20 LEA, Jack 2 1 5 LOKOTUI, Afe Haisila 2 1 5 MAXWELL, Alexander 2 2 0 MONTIERI, Sam 2 1 0 MORGAN, Freddie 2 2 0 MORGAN, George 2 2 10 MUKARATI, Nigel 2 0 MURPHY, Nick 2 1 5 RILEY, Hal 2 0 RODLEY, James 1 0 RUNDLE, Dan 2 2 10 SCOTT, Chris 2 8 16 THORNE, Chad 2 0 THORP, Stefan 2 0 WILSON, Sam 1 1 0 WORTHINGTON, Mike 2 2 0 Penalty Try 0 TOTALS 12 8 76

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