52 touchdowns for junior Jack

FIRST XV players Danny Trigg and Freddie Burns handed out the end of season awards to Cinderford’s mini players.

The under-sevens and eights played 13 times, including two festivals.

They scored 190 tries – 52 from Jack Worgan and 28 from Harry Taylor.

Award Winners Under-sevens Coaches’ Awards Max Skipsey & Lewis Handley

Most Improved Player:William Salter

Top Try Scorer: Harry Taylor

Player of the Year: Harry Taylor

Under-eights Coaches’ Awards Emily Dalrymple & Edwin Mathieson

Most Improved: Harry Jones

Top Try Scorer: Jack Worgan

Player of the Year: Jack Worgan

The Welsh are Coming!!

PRE-SEASON TRIAL

Pontypridd RFC
Saturday 22nd August
KICK OFF 3:00PM

British Lions – South Africa Tour

Come to the Clubhouse and follow the British Lions tour of South Africa.
To celebrate this special event Cinderford RFC are doing a ‘SPECIAL 3′ deal.
This deal gives you 3 GAMES, with 3 HOURS we pints are at £2 (Draught Beer & Lager. Guiness & Grolsch £2.50) and if your feeling hungry for just £3 have a CURRY.

Cinderford end season with big win over strugglers

Cinderford 67 v Waterloo 17

BACKS coach Phil Greenaway believes Cinderford exceeded all expectations by finishing fifth in National Two this season.

“It’s testament to how hard the guys have worked in training, especially during that winter period when we had seven weeks without a game,” he said.

“As a coaching staff, we always felt we would compete.

“But you still worry you might not have got things right.”

“There were other games we could have won, such as Cambridge and Blackheath at home, but sometimes you need those experiences to get out the other end.”

Against relegated Waterloo on Saturday, Cinderford ran in 10 tries.

Freddie Burns put over an early drop-goal before winger Adam Nicholls touched down in the corner on debut.

Quick hands and strong play from skipper Paul Knight put Nicholls over for his second try in the 12th minute. Burns converted again.

Knight was originally picked to play for Gloucestershire rather than Cinderford, but answered an SOS to play for his club side because they didn’t have a scrum-half.

Teenage full-back Mike Wilcox was next on the scoresheet with a well-taken try, converted by Burns.

Waterloo opened their account when Steve Briers went over for an unconverted touchdown.

Cinderford added three more tries before half-time through Knight, Adam Nicholls and Jake Carter. Two more conversions from Burns made it 41-5 at the break.

James Copsey, playing in the centre rather than on the wing, scored Cinderford’s seventh try early in the second-half.

The visitors continued to show plenty of commitment and were rewarded with a Carl Nolan score.

Carter went over for his second try and quickly followed up with another to complete a fine hat-trick.

Burns was on target with both conversions.

Mike Hale touched down for Waterloo but Cinderford had the final say – Knight dummying his way through the visitors’ defence down the blindside after some good build-up play from the forwards. Burns slotted the conversion.

Cinderford: Mike Wilcox, Andrew Nicholls, Alan Bryan, James Copsey, Jake Carter, Freddie Burns, Paul Knight (capt), Chris Bundy, Nigel Matthews, Andy Deacon, Rob Fidler, Chris Jones, Adam Nicholls, Chris McNeil, Rob James. Reps: Neil Bayliss, Jake Meadows, Dan Wright, Toby Wilson, Pete Towers.

GLOUCESTER Rugby Club blew their chances of reaching the Guinness Premiership final, but at least the county will have one representative in Saturday’s final.

Cinderford’s commercial manager Matt Bayliss has been named as the citing officer for the biggest game in the Guinness Premiership season between Leicester and London Irish.

Cinderford end season with 10-try show

Cinderford RFC 67 – Westcombe RFC 17

CINDERFORD’S second 10-try demolition of a bottom-three side in a week was even more remarkable given they had 10 players away on county duty, including player coach Mark Cornwell.

With fifth place in National Two already secure, the match was always going to have an end-of-season feel to it and, while some magnificent tries were scored, there was not the zip to the performance there had been against Westcombe Park last week.

That had as much to do with the opposition as anything else. Waterloo fell off tackles and failed to provide much in the way of stout defence, which resulted in a loose affair.

The Foresters’ defence, so resolute last time out, leaked three tries and 17 points as the away side’s inaccuracy was allowed to creep into the home team’s game at Dockham Road.

But there were some fine performances, including a hat-trick for winger Jake Carter, two in the first 10 minutes for debutant winger Andy Nicholls and a drop goal after only seconds of the game from Freddie Burns, who added 17 points to his 30 last week.

Both Nicholls’ tries were set up by hooker Nigel Matthews, the first after he made good ground on the left, before the ball went through Burns’ and full-back Mike Wilcox’s hands, with the winger on hand to finish it.

After the second Nicholls score, for which Matthews showed some fancy feet in midfield, the winger turned provider for Wilcox, the England Under-18s fly-half, to get himself on the scoresheet. Burns’ conversion made it 22-0.

But back came Waterloo and found a fine try through winger Stephen Briers after delectable quick hands from Freeman Payne inside him.

Skipper Paul Knight, forced to return from county duty to solve a scrum-half crisis, put the Foresters back on track with a bullocking try on 34 minutes before the other Nicholls, back row Adam, added one of his own.

Before half-time a ‘Burns special’ delighted the home crowd. The fly-half chipped over the before from inside his own 22, gathered and found a long raking pass to centre Adam Bryan, who released Carter for his first.

The second half started with a fine try for James Copsey, before Burns made an error covering a kick through to allow Waterloo’s Carl Nolan to score.

After Carter scored two tries in quick succession, Mike Hale grabbed a third for Waterloo, but Knight fittingly had the final say to cap Cinderford’s season.

Cinderford: M Wilcox; Andy Nicholls, J Copsey, A Bryan, J Carter; F Burns, P Knight (capt); C Bundy, N Matthews, A Deacon, R Fidler, C Jones, Adam Nicholls, C McNeil, R James. Reps: J Meadows (Bundy 68), D Wright (McNeil 28), T Wilson (Wright 52), P Towers (Andy Nicholls 63), N Bayliss (Deacon 46)

Waterloo: M Hale; S Briers, F Payne, J Duffy (capt), D Cairns; L Reeve, A Anderson; M O’Keefe, P Ince, J Hall, M Coyne, J Harrington, T Davis, C Nolan, D Hall. Reps: M Rylands, S Gibney, J Nuttal, J Gee, N Kerfoot.