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HERTS-MIDDLESEX TWO (N)
OLD STREETONIANS
Captain Nick Barham
Coach David Bailey
A 28-13 away win on the ﬁ nal day
over leaders Cheshunt enabled
Streetonians to leap from third place
to take the title, though they had
spent most of the season in top spot.
Upgraded training facilities have now
given them the impetus to target the
Herts-Middlesex One title at the ﬁ rst
attempt. Barham accumulated
127 points while Jim Essex, Simon
Sprague and Sam Ingleby prospered.
HERTS-MIDDLESEX TWO (S)
HARLEQUIN AMATEURS
Captain Jon Lowe C
Coach Duncan Simpson H
HAVING merged with Lockside,
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Quins won this title at the ﬁ rst
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attempt, thanks partly to the
Wild Boar: Dave Cook tackles a Hellingly opponent P
inﬂ uence of Lowe in his second
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season as captain. Wing Nick
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Marren was among the tries, along titles, and received great support speed to experience to enjoy a EASTERN COUNTIES ONE N
with ﬂ y-half James Loizos, a heavy from Kiwi powerhouse Mark Walker, fabulous season. Rob Woods scored WYMONDHAM S
point-scorer. They hope to launch a former Bay of Plenty lock. They won 19 tries and topped up his tally with Captain Jon Morfoot
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a minis section in September. the Sussex Shield and an untarnished kicks while Dave Cook touched down Coaches Andy Lyle (DoR), Nick O
league season always looked likely 16 times. A key to success was a Greenhall, Tim Malone
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HERTS-MIDDLESEX THREE (N) after they scored 45 points at stable half-back pairing as Brady LOCK Morfoot, 46, not only made a
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HACKNEY second-placed East Grinstead. Wing Burdett controlled matters outside triumphant return to captaincy duties
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Captain Matthew Clemens-Lary Adam Tennant and hooker Rob club chairman Dave Rhodes, 49, who after a 14-year gap, but was back in
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Coach Neil Schoﬁ eld Lawrence both scored 21 tries while got through 22 games at scrum-half. action only seven weeks after a burst

DIFFICULT years are hopefully over Matt Skinner totalled 133 points. appendix. Hooker Micky Byrne, 44,
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for Hackney, who now have the SUSSEX THREE WEST retired to take a marketing role with
funds to replace their clubhouse SUSSEX TWO EAST CHICHESTER IV
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the club that plans to sell its ground
burned down by arsonists. The HEATHFIELD & WALDRON II Captain

Noel Ashton-Rickardt and move to a purpose-built facility
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committee and stalwarts John Captain Jim Cumming Coach None less than a mile away within three
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Young, Morgan Whitlock, Cormac Coach Wayne Pritchard ASHTON-RICKARDT, a former years. Will Mitchell (28 tries), Player of
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Fanning, Cathal Callanan, Rich THIS was Heathﬁ eld’s development ﬁ rst-teamer, got old colleagues like the Year Lee Summers (23) and Jack
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Holgate and Tristan Wright have XV and winning the title was just part Steve Bradford and Sean Clarkson Peacock (225 points) top-scored.
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kept the game alive in an area where of the story – they also saw players involved in the vets team and
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little rugby is played. Johnathon graduate to the successful ﬁ rst team. success snowballed. The accent was EASTERN COUNTIES TWO
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Tully (11 tries) and James Hardwick Pritchard was reluctant to single on enjoyment and playing numbers THETFORD
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(113 points) top-scored. out individuals, putting success swelled with players organising Captain Gordon Hodgkinson
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down to teamwork and hard graft. themselves at training. Centre Tom Coaches ‘Geordie’ Thynne
HERTS-MIDDLESEX THREE (S) Fountain topped the scoring charts (forwards), Dave Tanner (backs)
LONDON FRENCH SUSSEX TWO WEST with 20 tries while Kenny Lawrence THE guidance of Thynne and Tanner
Captain Stephane Redon WORTHING IV was destroyer-in-chief in the back row. boosted Thetford, who lost only one
Coach John Hunter Holmes (ﬁ tness) Captain Lee Roberts match, at Newmarket, and thrived
FLY-HALF Redon led by example Coach None SUSSEX THREE CENTRAL on the displays of lock Carl Webster
with 14 tries and Callum Carmichael THIS league title and the Sussex Vase BRIGHTON III and full-back Martin Sands. They had
picked up 112 points as French won was clinched by a real mix of youth Captain Gary Schooley an enviable depth of players in most
all but one of their 18 matches to and experience – not least when Coaches Melissa Stepney areas and a young side showed they
foreshadow their 50th anniversary former ﬁ rst-teamer Mark O’Connor (manager), Dan Bennett had ‘learned to win’. Next year the
year. They had a captivating interest and his son Josh found themselves THIS is essentially an under-15 team club celebrates its 50th anniversary.
in running the ball and ﬁ elded players on opposite wings. With some wise that stuck together through the age
from ﬁ ve overseas countries, as well old heads, there was no panic when groups, then opted to go into men’s COUNTY CUP WINNERS
as from the four home unions. things looked tough. Noel Shields was rugby rather than play under-18s. EASTERN COUNTIES Shelford
top try-scorer and Player of the Year. Supplemented by two teachers and ESSEX Southend
SUSSEX ONE a handful of students, they enjoyed a HAMPSHIRE Havant
HEATHFIELD & WALDRON SUSSEX THREE EAST remarkable title-winning debut with HERTFORDSHIRE Hertford
Captain Bryn Jones HEATHFIELD & WALDRON III Richard Brooks leading the scoring. KENT Canterbury
Coach Dave Jones Captain Kenny Lewis They didn’t train in midweek but MIDDLESEX Civil Service
DAVE JONES has revitalised Coaches Tony Rose, Mike MacLeod met two hours before games when SURREY Sutton & Epsom
Heathﬁ eld, whose sides won three HEATHFIELD ‘Boars’ allied youthful Bennett would help them prepare. SUSSEX Bognor n
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