GORESBROOK LONDON LEAGUE ONE NORTH GALE STREET, DAGENHAM 2015-2016 ESSEX, RM9 4TX TEL:020 8595 7324 www.barkingrfc.co.uk Saturday April 9, 2016 TRINGTRING K.O 15.00 DONATION £2 THANK YOU Fixtures 2015-16 SEPT 5 Amersham A L 16-37 Lloyd T, C, 2P, Ratford DG 12 Ruislip H W 27-21 Barham T, Blackmore T, White T, Lloyd 3C, 2P 19 O.Priorians A L 5-38 Hayes T 26 Brentwood H L 19-56 Barham T, Lloyd 4P, C OCT 3 Letchworth A L 9-16 Lloyd 3P 10 N. Walsham A L 3-51 Lloyd P 17 24 Chingford H W 11-10 Touma T, Lloyd 2P 31 NOV 7 Luton A W 10-3 Blackmore T, Lloyd C, P 14 Thurrock H L 5-25 D.Ox T 21 CS Rugby A L 15-30 Hayes T, White T, Lloyd C, P 28 Harrow H L 8-10 Duke T, Lloyd P DEC 5 Tring A L 7-33 Smith T, Lloyd C 12 Chelmsford H W 26-21 Smith 2T, Lloyd 2T, 3C 19 Ruislip A W 31-26 Baffour T, Blackmore T, Barham T, Ogie T, Lloyd T, 3C 26 JAN 2 9 O. Priorian H W 19-15 Stanyon T, Barham T, Pen Try, Lloyd C, Ogunfowora C 16 Brentwood A L 0-3 23 Letchworth H L 17-37 Blackmore T, Pen Try, Lloyd 2C, P 30 N. Walsham H L 13-22 Barnham T, Pearce T, Lloyd P FEB 6 13 Chingford A W 20-17 Longhurst T, Pen Try, Lloyd T, P, C 20 Luton H W 21-16 D.Ox T, Hayes T, Lloyd C, 3P 27 MARCH 5 Thurrock A L 10-31 Hayes T. Blackmore T 12 19 CS Rugby H D 20-20 Pen Try, Lloyd T, 2C, 2P 26 APR 2 Harrow A L 18-32 McCaffrey T, Clark T, Lloyd C, 2P 9 Tring H 16 Chelmsford A 23 Amersham H 30 Sponsors of Barking RFC and the Barking RFC Community Programme All home games KO at 15.00 Friendly fixtures in italics 2 23 WelcomeWelcome toto GoresbrookGoresbrook THIS WEEK we welcome Tring to our club, will be made before we can expect a tough game today from the Amersham game. Tring who are riding high in the league In the mean time fighting hard for a top place with Amer- Sean Mullins has sham. stepped into the head This game follows a disappointing per- coach role and has our formance and result against Harrow last full support. Saturday were we sustained several in- Good luck to our juries which unfortunately has impacted under 14's tomorrow in their cup final on this weeks selection. We will however against Westcliff, 11.30 KO at home. Please I'm sure provide Tring with some strong come along and give your support to the opposition in our fight to get ourselves boys. out of the bottom 3. I would as always welcome David Herd- You may be aware that our head coach man our official for the day, lets hope he Nigel Seaman has left the club, a formal has a good game and a big thanks to the announcement regarding his replacement volunteer linesmen today whoever they are. I finish by once again welcoming Tring and their supporters, our sponsors and of course our own supporter's. Have a great day, enjoy the game and a few beers if the mood takes you. David Lancaster 22 3 A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT ANORAK’S ON BEHALF of Barking Rugby like, so I urge all Barking members to join in, volun- CORNER Club I extend a warm welcome teer and help out in any way you can. All you have to all old and new visitors to to do is ask. London Diviisiion One North 2015/2016 Goresbrook. new visitors to I would now like to draw your attention to the work P W D L F A DIFF TB LB PTS Goresbrook. being done by Neil Kersey as part of the Club's Com- DED I would also personally like munity Programme around the Borough and in the Amersham 23 19 0 4 890 331 559 17 3 96 0 to welcome today's match of- local schools, and the recent recognition it received Tring 23 20 0 3 751 341 410 14 0 94 0 ficials, players, supporters and alickadoos of our op- from the RFU through the President's Award Brentwood 23 18 0 5 696 393 303 13 2 87 0 position today. Scheme. Thurrock 23 17 0 6 629 470 159 11 1 80 0 It goes without saying that we have been through On a more serious note, I want to mention the the proverbial mill over the last few seasons but now Club's approach to discipline, and say: N.Walsham 22 13 0 9 523 365 158 9 5 66 0 I see a genuine light at the end of a long tunnel and We stand firmly alongside the RFU in condemna- CS Rugby 23 11 1 11 585 478 107 10 6 62 0 it's pleasing that we now have structures in place tion of foul play and abuse of any kind. Letchworth 23 11 1 11 454 476 -22 7 3 56 0 that the Committee have long been striving for. I ask all supporters to remember that referees O.Priorian 23 10 0 13 523 534 -11 8 6 54 0 My best wishes go to our new coaching team, led will always make mistakes, but players will always Ruislip 23 7 0 0 by head coach Steve Wagstaff. Please take the op- make more, so please keep any derogatory remarks 16 540 702 -162 9 8 45 portunity to meet them after the game. to yourself. Chingford 23 9 0 14 350 641 -291 5 3 44 0 I hope all their efforts are rewarded and we see Lastly, and most poignantly as a member of our Chelmsford 23 8 1 14 465 661 -196 6 3 43 0 a much needed reversal of our fortunes. club, a club which is made up mostly of men, I BARKING 23 8 1 14 330 570 -240 2 3 39 0 The past 12 months or so have seen a steady im- would urge you all to take my lead and be tested for Harrow 23 6 0 17 325 641 -31 2 4 0 provement in the structure and numbers of our the early signs of prostate cancer, a test which takes 6 30 Youth Section, undoubtably due to the fantastic but a few minutes which could save your life. Luton 22 1 0 22 277 735 -458 0 6 5 5 work of Trevor Keys and Laurie. Please give them So please, if you take one thing from these words your support. I have written, let it be to take that test. SCORERS 2015/2016 TODAY’S FIXTURES Like all clubs, we are grateful to our volunteers Gerry Mansfield TODAY’S FIXTURES but still need more if we are to function as we would T C P DG Pts Lloyd 5 20 25 - 140 Barking v Tring Barham 5 - - - 25 Blackmore 5 - - - 25 Brentwood v Amersham Hayes 4 - - - 20 Pen Try 3 - - - 15 Chingford v Harrow Smith 3 - - - 15 D.Ox 2 - - - 10 Letchworth v Chelmsford White 2 - - - 10 Baffour 1 - - - 5 Luton v CS Rugby Clark 1 - - - 5 Duke 1 - - - 5 Longhurst 1 - - - 5 O.Priorian v Ruislip McCaffrey 1 - - - 5 Ogie 1 - - - 5 Thurrock v N.Walsham Pearce 1 - - - 5 Stanyon 1 - - - 5 Touma 1 - - - 5 Ratford - - - 1 3 Ogunfowara - 1 - - 2 4 21 Tring RFC THERE HAS been a rugby club in the before the phrase minis rugby was small northwest Hertfordshire town dreamed up. Members of that first of Tring since 1964, when two Tring junior team are still active in the club based local commuters, Don Dover today – a whole rugby career later. and Arthur Howlett, bemoaning the As the town expanded the council lack of rugby in the town, established compulsorily purchased the original a club at The Royal Hotel at Tring Sta- site so it could become Dundale tion, where they used to meet for a School and, in search of a new home, drink after returning from London by train. They the club approached another local landowner, put adverts in the local papers to attract players the show jumper Dorian Williams who owned and soon got themselves up and running. the estate at Pendley, on the eastern edge of the The club’s first home was on land to the north town, close to the clubs roots at Tring Station. of the town, off Manor Road, generously leased Williams had a philanthropic vision for a cul- to them by the Mead family who were local tural centre in Tring that comprised an arts cen- farmers and land owners. The facilities were tre, now the popular Court Theatre, an adult meagre to say the least – the pitch was simply a education college, which was located in Pendley bit of pastureland and players changed in an old Manor itself before it became a hotel and a open sided cowshed located on the site. The sports centre which would be home to many of clubhouse was the nearby Black Horse pub in the towns sporting teams. the town centre. Williams welcomed the club with open arms Chief amongst those setting up the club was a and they established a base alongside Tring New Zealander, Mark Ottway, who had been re- Town Football Club (now home to Tring Ath- located to the UK for business and had settled in letic).