Well if we were disappointed with the Elite squad last month our England Sevens did us proud and got off to a wonderful start by winning the first round of the IRB 7s in Dubai.    England 7's WIN in Dubai  - However, in George South Africa they just could not pull off the final hurdle but overall a great start England 7s George Results

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and the ultimate accolade for our site 

when 

Claire met Clive (Sir)

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Sir Clive Woodward took the time out of his busy schedule to look over our site and thought we were doing a great job

Claire meets Sir Clive

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We then got a wonderful email from MikeM - Tank Commander with the QRH on peace keeping duty out in Cyprus advising that Jason Leonard had been out on a morale boosting trip for the troops at Christmas.  England's Jason & Troops

photo copyright of MikeM - Mike to the right of Jason.

A reminder that we still want your thoughts on our  please get these into Claire pronto - thank you. England Rugby Survey  

And finally as this is the end of the year and we move onto 2005 - for the time being we have taken down the Rogues Cafe - it will come back at the end of the year in revamped style.        

However, as this is the 'Lions Tour' year, we have given over our second message board to the Lions and named it the 'Lions Den'.  We will allow off topic tit bits within reason and look forward to you joining us in the Den for drinks and banter.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL 2005

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