Season 2018-2019 // 6th October 2018 LONDON 1 SOUTH HOVE V TOTTONIANS SATURDAY 6TH OCTOBER @ 3.00 PM TODAY’S MATCH BALL SPONSOR UNCLE SAM’S THIS YEARS PLATINUM SPONSORS PROPERTY MOVES HOVE RECREATION GROUND Hove Rugby Club SHIRLEY DRIVE, HOVE HOVE RUGBY CLUB SPONSORS Property Moves 109 Church Road, Hove BN3 2BB T. 01273 321 333 www.propertymoves.co.uk Art Republic 13 Bond St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1RD www.artrepublic.com · T. 01273 724 829 Uncle Sams 13 Queens Parade, Hove BN3 8JN 197 Carden Ave, Brighton BN1 8LE www.unclesams.co.uk · T. 01273 206 644 T. 01273 700 748 Cardens Accountants LLP 73 Church Road, Hove BN3 2BB www.cardensaccountants.co.uk · T. 01273 739 592 T. 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Founded in 1962, the club has made steady but almost uniformly upward progress since being formed in 1962; this is their fourth season in London One South and they have made a steady start with two victories and three defeats so far, all of them close results. They run four senior sides, including a vets, every Saturday as well as a thriving mini and youth. I believe this is the first league fixture between the two sides. I have personal memories of playing against them back in the early 1970s when they regularly went on Richard Hopkins tour to the Easter rugby festival held at Lowestoft and Yarmouth rugby club – I don’t remember too much about the rugby but I gained a strong impression that they were a very convivial group – and I expect that will be confirmed today! Welcome to Ken, Graham, Julie and Geoff who will be joining us for lunch. Last week we played well at Westcombe Park for most of the game – but paid a heavy price for conceding three poor tries in the second quarter, resulting in a heavy half time deficit of 29-0. We dominated the second half in which the scoring was 14-5 in our favour, mainly thanks to excellent set piece work by the forwards, but were only able to breach a strong home defence twice. Overall, though, the performance was encouraging and there is no doubt that the team is improving and should continue to do. Special mention should be made of Charlie Knight, Toby Ward and Tyler Hooper for their committed and brave performances. Charlie and Tyler were playing Colts rugby last season and it is a big step up to London One South; all credit to them for making it. Off the field, I sense there is a risk of the club falling victim to its own success in attracting playing membership. The numbers of teams - men’s, women’s, boy’s and girl’s – has placed strain on both physical infrastructure and the volunteer base. In the rest of the season it will be important for us to develop a clear fundraising plan in order to raise the funds for the development of the clubhouse and the changing rooms, for which we now have planning permission – and also to build on and refresh our volunteer base in order to safeguard the future. We need to be doing this together as one club and one family. Have a great afternoon. Richard Hopkins - President THIS WEEKS MATCH BALL SPONSOR 13 Queens Parade, Hove BN3 8JN T. 01273 206 644 197 Carden Ave, Brighton BN1 8LE T. 01273 700 748 www.unclesams.co.uk Saturday 6th October 2018 HOVE RUGBY CLUB V TOTTONIANS HOVE RFC – SKY BLUE AND MAROON Full Back Full Back 15 Adam Phillips Three Quarters Right Wing 14 Toby Ward Outside Centre 13 Phil Dugard Inside Centre 12 Martin Macdonald Left Wing 11 Guy Patton Half Backs Fly Half 10 Carles Casanova Scrum Half 9 Charlie Knight Forwards Loose Head prop 1 Declan Peake Hooker 2 Pat Andrews Tight Head Prop 3 Ryan Storer Lock 4 Ian Saunders Lock 5 Carl Buckland Blind Side Flanker 6 Robin Ward Open Side Flanker 7 Tom Lemehaute Number Eight 8 Luke Torres Replacements 16 Adrian Shergold 17 Chris Knott 18 Rene Pavlides Match Officials Mike Lamb - Match referee Keith Griffin - Referee's assessor TBC - Assistant Referee Team Officials Manager Adam Tunesi Coaches Sandy Robertson · Jack Newton · Ryan Storer Physio Sarah Huntley RESULT ZONE HOVE RUGBY CLUB - FIRST XV Relevant Results Saturday 29th September 2018 Tottonians 14 - 10 Chobham Saturday 29th September 2018 West Park 38 - 14 Hove London 1 South Todays Fixtures Chichester Dartfordians Chobham Medway Cobham Westcombe Park Hove Tottonians London Cornish Camberley Sevenoaks Brighton Thurrock Havant Next home game: Saturday 27th October 2018 Camberley Kick off 3.00pm MYSTIC GEOFF 6th October 2018 Level 6 seems to have changed since we were here last! Westcombe Park, our hosts last week, are a semi-pro team with a fully paid squad. They have numerous coaches, including an ex Chichester Director of Rugby. Our performance was very much as expected. For long periods we were a Geoff Pollard match for Park. However, there always seem to be those moments in a game when our opponents change gear and outplay us. This week’s games. League position in brackets: Chichester(12) v Dartfordians (10). Intriguing game. As I have mentioned in other missives Dartfordians were the best side in L2SE last year but are struggling in L1S. My history with Chichester suggests they should win this, but if they don’t we will learn much about our West Sussex acquaintances (can’t bring myself to call them friends) Chobham(8) v Medway(2). After comfortably beating us in the first game Chobham have been sliding down the league. Tottonians, today’s visitors, beat them last week. Medway charge on, unbeaten so far, and I fully expect that record to be maintained. Cobham(6) v Westcombe Park(5). Both of these teams have beaten us. Of the two I think Park looked more impressive but, good enough to win in stockbroker belt? Sticking my neck out, I think Park will do it. London Cornish(9) v Camberley(3). Camberley comfortably won L2SW last season and seem to have made an easy start in this league. Brighton beat them on opening day, but after that, they have scored some big wins. Don’t see that changing today. Sevenoaks(4) v Brighton(1). Viewing these two in the mirror of their performances at the Rec this should be a home win. Sevenoaks beat us by a bigger margin than Brighton managed and we never really looked good against them. On the other hand, we played well against the lot from over the hill. Brighton unbeaten run to end. Thurrock(11) v Havant(13). Thurrock have won twice already this season and should rack up a third win today. Havant share the dubious honour with us of a zero in the win column. They are only above us on bonus points. Hove(14) v Tottonians(7). Before last week many of us were eying this fixture as our first possible win. Trouble is last weekend Tottonians beat Chobham and moved into the top half of the table. So far all of our games (the opening day apart) have been against top half teams and we have struggled to deliver an eighty-minute game. If we can keep concentration, I think we will win. Geoff Pollard HOVE RUGBY CLUB SPONSORS Rix & Kay Solicitors 7 The Drive, Hove BN3 3JS T. 01273 329 797 · F. 01273 225 609 www.rixandkay.co.uk Newport Paper Aston House, Springfi eld Industrial Estate, Newport, Shropshire TF10 7NB T. 01952 811 121 · E. [email protected] www.newportpaper.com Preston Insurance Brokers 11 Hollingbury Place, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 7GE T. 0845 129 7505 www.prestonib.co.uk Winston Sports 2-4 Bridge Road, Orpington Kent BR5 2BH T: 01689 837 975 www.winstonsports.co.uk Hart-White Consulting E. 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