Posted on 01 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Senior Results
The Burgess Hill 1st try on Saturday, caught on camera……..
Single yourself out…. What were you doing? Could/Should you have been doing more? Was it your fault?
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Posted on 25 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Goons, Senior Results
A fine spirited attack and a “never die” attitude saw Rye seconds (The GOONS) take on East Grinstead 3’s. East Grinstead who were third in the league and had beaten RYE 2’s this season by some 20 odd points were confident and rearing to go .
Skipper DOWNS rolled back the years scoring two fine tries due to the constant pressure placed on him by inside centre and team critic “Telly-Tubby ” Chris CHALLINOR.
Having had a particularly poor previous game Telly-Tubby took it upon himself to at every given opportunity (in -person text message , smoke signal , you name it !) to inform the out of form skipper just how poor he had played. Hopefully this will put my number one critic at bay for at least a week. If anyone is interested Telly-Tubby does offer courses in “how to influence people and win friends”.
Another solid performance from wing , OLLY saw him scoring two excellent tries despite nearly having his head knocked off from a very high tackle.
Hardman Thomas EDWARDS had his work cut out for him as the opposing eightman was a man mountain .Playing out of position at flank , EDWARDS had a steady game . Fortunately for the team he didn’t receive his mandatory concussion, just as well as we had no reserves.
Despite having the dreaded “man-flu” , MOOSE led by example with some solid tackling and ball carrying.
When the firsts whom were playing on the adjoining field took one of our players due to an injury in their game the tempo of the match changed, and East Grinstead clawed their way back.
The scores were 31-30 to RYE when Graham NUNN stupidly and deliberately infringed right in front of the ref and the poles.
With only seconds remaining in the match , East Grinstead opted for a kick at poles which would’ve seen them steal a win.
Fortunately for RYE they missed and RYE were victorious 31-30.
A fine effort and gutsy performance by all the team.
NUNNY- thanks to you Mrs for finally releasing the handbrake and allowing you out to play with the boys.
Next week sees us take on undefeated high-flyers Heathfield 4 at home at 14:15.
Posted on 14 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Goons, News, Senior Results
CRAWLEY AWAY….
Miles Travelled - 162.2
Players available - 13
Score at half-time, when the game was abandoned - 47-3
Leaving early but getting stuck in stationary traffic for over an hour…. PRICELESS!
At least we fulfilled the fixture, well done to the few players that bothered to travel up!!
Posted on 14 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Events, Goons, News, Senior Fixtures, Senior Results, U16, Youth
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Posted on 11 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: News, Senior Results
The current leaders of Sussex 1, Worthing III were the visitors to New Road this weekend, in essentially what was a top versus bottom, David versus Goliath battle. Rye were boosted by the return of key hardman John ‘Little Smudge’ Smith, who returned from playing toy soldiers with a nice spray tan only to be hit by the ‘freezing’ cold British weather (even though it was the warmest and clearest day we’d had in weeks!!).
Rye started the game well and put the Worthing defence immediately under pressure from the kick off. Rye attacked through several phases in the Worthing half and looked like taking the lead when a good move involving the backs was unlucky not to break through the Worthing line score. Rye kept the pressure on and their scrum was looking much stronger than their counterparts, with great work in the front row by Tony ‘Evergreen’ Pierce, Mickey ‘is their any danger of you scoring a try this season’ Scriven and Alfie ‘Fly-Half in the making’ Chapman. Rye were enjoying some good clean ball off of their own scrum and also turned several against the head. After a good sustained period in the Worthing half, an unlucky grubber kick attempt from Toby ‘Posh boy’ Aylett, went straight into the hands of an opposition back who was able to kick down field, and with Jamie ‘only tries that I score should count’ Moore up in the attacking line, no full back was at home which meant it was a clear foot race to see who would get to the loose ball…. Unluckily for Rye, Worthing had a British Usain Bolt hidden in their ranks who appeared from about 20 metres behind everyone else to gather the loose ball and score for the visitors. Worthing were very lucky to score 2 more tries before the break, against 2 penalties from Moore, which meant they went into the break leading 17-6.
It was essential for Rye that they could score quickly after the restart and they continued to pepper the try-line and were extremely unlucky not to more tries and Mickey ’soon to be married, maybe that will improve my handling ‘ Scriven was ‘unlucky’ not to score twice, once after a fine run from a quickly taken Pierce lineout led to him being held up over the line, and once when he appeared to fumble the ball forward when all he literally needed to do was pick it up and put it down, maybe he could have done it if it had been a dumbell!!!
Rye did manage to score early in the second half after good work in the loose from Tony Pierce and Ben ‘Strong hand’ Sinclair enabled No. 8 Gary Edmunds to pick up and dive over the line from fully 2 metres out, an easy fate…. isn’t Scriven…. 2 metres… put, ball, down, over, line E-A-S-Y!!! 17-11 with Rye looking the more likely to add to their recent score and take control of the game. Cracks were showing throughout the Worthing team as they had to resort to dirty tactics, rightly having 2 players sin-binned in quick succession, one for a cynical late and high tackle off the ball and one for the improper and dangerous use of the boot, stamping on skipper Dave ‘Big Smudge’ Smith’s back. In the first instance, Rye were very unlucky not to have been awarded the advantage as they had a 3 man overlap and only 1 defender left to beat, something they had been practicing in training all season, with at least a 30% success rate!!
Rye spent the vast majority of the 2nd half pounding, and pounding, and pounding away at the Worthing 22, and somehow all they had 2 show for it was 2 more Jamie Moore penalties. Even when the visitors twice went down to 14, they still couldn’t add to the 1 try they had, with a few more numbers at training surely they would have added more tries and could easily have taken the game away from the number 1 side in the league, who have only previously lost 1 game all season!! Unfortuantely it was left to Worthing to add a drop-goal, perhaps showing how close the match was, and how desperate they were to keep their slender advantage, to late penalties and a converted try to make the final score 30-14, in a very hard fought and unlucky loss for Rye.
Next week sees a weakend Rye side take on 2nd placed Crawley away.