MATCH DAY MATCH DAY PROGRAMME Season 2016-2017 Anselmians RUFC founded 1947 Malone Field—Eastham Village Road Eastham—Wirral—CH62 0BJ 0151 327 1613 www.pitchero.com/clubs/anselmiansrufc 1 Welcome one and all to Malone Field the home of Anselmians RUFC celebrang 70 years this year! “We have big plans for this season both on and off the pitch, our Centre of Excellence (COE) is now up and running in partnership with AFYA sports who are delivering specialist coaching and training plans throughout the club.” Jason Abbott Chairman “The excellence programme is for the end of next season with a view players aged 13-18 giving them to being ready for October 2017. coaching and advice on fitness, skill There is more informa.on in the development, posi4onal and team clubhouse about these plans that tac4cs as well as nutri4on. ill see us cement our standing in As part of the Academy there will the local and rugby communi.es. also be extensive coaching We hope you enjoy the game and development and parents advice hospitality brought to you by /uy, programme. 0ue and the team, stay in touch if Please make sure you ask for details this is a passing visit as e have very if you have anyone interested in big plans for the future hich e joining our COE. hope you can be part of.% Our plans for a new clubhouse and facility are moving a step closer and we will be hoping to start works at 2 1 ELEPHANT 5rogramme LOUNGE & BAR Ad0er4sing EXCEPTIONAL Ad0er4se 78UR COFFEE, Business and INCREDIBLE FOOD, Support the CLUB COLD BEERS, ——— DELICIOUS WINES All 1st Team AND GORGEOUS League Games COCKTAILS . ——— 5arkgate Waterfront with per season e,cellent 0iews of ri0er Dee2 ——— wildlife and Welsh hills • 3ac) page reserved for HAMILTON HOUSE, THE main club sponsor PARADE PARKGATE • Full page facing CH64 6SB team sheet44 5150 • Full page4 5125 • 271 page4 5100 • 172 page4 5,5 • 171 page4 580 Coming Soon • 172 page4 550 ELEPHANT BANK RESTAURANT Contact Norman Peers Email4 normal51.np:gmail.com NESTON 07716 882024 2 About Anselmians 8ur Founding 5layers merit tables and, no , league rugby, many of our tradi.onal @xtures have lapsed. The “Old% as dropped from the name and “Anselmians% 1st HI no compete in the 0outh Cancashire7Cheshire Division One. The 2nd and 1rd HIs play in Division 1 0outh and the Wirral Eerit table and the thriving mini and junior sec.on is the envy of many clubs. 8ld Anselmians quality rugby players. Aus.n Healey ould go on to in Fason Abbot recently Rugby Union @Ay one England caps and became club chairman ith Football Club tour ith the 3ri.sh and a speci@c brief to prepare Irish Cions. In the 1995-98 the club for the next was created when a Five Na.ons compe..on, chapter in its history. T o group of 8ld Boys of Chris.an 0averimuDo as )ey elements to the club’s St. Anselm’s College capped three .mes for plans are the development Ireland. of younger players and the got together a>er the building of a ne clubhouse Eore recently, in 2002, 3en Second World War hich ill set the club on Fohnston, the NoGngham through a shared lo0e course to ful@l its ambi.on player7coach, as capped of becoming the premier of rugby. t ice by England, hilst spor.ng7social club in Early playing facili.es and Chris Pilgrim, has played for Wirral and West Cheshire. ameni.es ere primi.ve Ne castle Falcons, Yor)shire and it asn’t un.l the mid- Carnegie and the 3arbarians. Anselmians remains a 1950s that the club And, of course, erst hile friendly and for ard relocated to its present coach ,0imon Eason, ho thin)ing club true to the home here in Eastham as also capped three .mes vision of those young men village. by Ireland in the 1995-98 ho began it ith the Five Na.ons compe..on. simple ish ?to play rugby 0ince 192,, the club has with a smile.” produced a number of With the advent of @rst 5 A NEW CHA5TER F8R SAINTS Jim O’Loughlin—Head Coach As new coaches2 Jamie2 Ste0e and I are delighted to be wor3ing with the Saints Senior SCuad. Each of us has been around the club for many years, as players and e have been impressed ith hat e have seen as ne coaches. ADendance levels at training have been outstanding, and e have been very impressed by the aGtude, commitment and s)ills of the squad. We’re loving or)ing ith these guys tooM We )no these players ant to be as good A ne approach to selec.on has resulted in as they can beN to be challenged in training the appearance of several of last season’s st and to play for each other. The coaches have second team players in the 1 team set up, their o n thoughts about hat good loo)s here they have bac)ed up their li)e and guest coaching sessions from the performances in training by acquiGng st li)es of Andy TiDerell, 0ean Cong, Chris Fones themselves ell. Equally, ell established 1 and Fames Wade have given us plenty of team players have sho n themselves to be ne ideas to or) on. With the players very open to changing the ay e play and responding the right ay, and ith captain, all squad members have commiDed to Nic) Hearn, and vice-captain, Ear) aDaining higher levels of @tness. They’re all PeDerson, leading by excellent example on trends that e li)e. and off the pitch, the signs are very 0o hat does the future holdK Anselmians encouraging for the season ahead. deserves to be @elding three strong teams every 0aturday throughout the season - and (As of ri.ng) ith the addi.on of Fon our ambi.on is for each of those teams to Armstrong, Oli Coveday, EaD Doolan, Ciam be compe.ng for promo.on. To our mind Whita)er, O ain Fones, Craig Fones, Toby this club has al ays been at its best hen 3ertola, Fon Andre and 3en Davey, it’s ta)ing on L and bea.ng L teams that are far bigger than Anselmians, and hich also together ith the return of Fac) Richards have greater resources. We are not so sure and rene ed commitments from ex-colts e have been doing that to the extent that li)e 3en PereP, Alex Williams, Fac) Hennessy, e can in the recent past. 3ut ith the Tyler 3race, 0ean 0tenhouse, Wallace squad or)ing the ay it’s started this Wain right, Harry 0tables, Will Dagnall, season, ith the spirit that is no so obvious at training, and ith the players or)ing Dave Po er, and Chris Wildman (plus EaD st ee) in, ee) out to improve their Thornton) compe..on for 1 team places individual and collec.ve s)ills. ill be very strong. We ouldn’t have it any other ay. Watch this spaceA 8 Huality decora4ng for the home or the wor3place. E T Eoore Ctd is a business of long standing, having been set up on the Wirral in 198,, servicing a variety of clients, varying from domes.c through to commercial and industrial. 0pecialising in both domes.c and commercial decora.ng, e also carry out a Get your home loo3ing great great deal of general contrac.ng to offer with e,pert decorators you a complete service. This means that you 01 1 342 78I8 are never required to loo) for any other trades should the need arise. 0777 II7 800 200 CLUB Wee)ly PriPe Dra s Grand Christmas Draw 5riGe Just E per number Pic) up an entry form at the Club 3ar E1 00 ?7ou’0e got to be in Recent Winners: 18.10.18 Phil Cooper 5100 it to win itA” 09.10.18 Alan 3ram ell 5100 02.10.18 Cucy Hop ood 5100 25.09.18 Fac) Hancoc) 5100 18.09.18 Phil 3ooth 5100 , 8 9 A Message From The Directors It is clear that 0olunteers at all le0els are hopefully start this in Fanuary hen e )no the what 3eeps this club aJoat. 8f course we outcome of the planning applica.on. Of course need more of them and in par4cular we e ant people to start thin)ing about this no and to thin) about the issues and ris)s that e need more people who are willing to gi0e ill face. Your thoughts and vie s on these a liKle 4me and put something bac3 into ould be elcome. You can drop Fason Abbot, the club . the chairman, a line at 4 jason:proac.vepropertyu).com The more volunteers e have the less onerous it becomes for others - so please step up and put Finally2 if there are issues or ques.ons you have yourself for ard. about these messages or anything else that is of concern to you then please let the chairman Firstly2 the directors ant to yet again put out a )no . plea for more people to get involved in the direc- .on and leadership of the club. We need people to step up and put themselves for ard for roles ithin the club. The directors ill be standing do n at the end of the season and need people to come for- ard ith a vie to shado ing the directors and geGng involved in the decision ma)ing of the club and shaping its future.