This Weekend

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Esher v Albion
Saturday 04 April
K.O. 3 pm
also
Henley v Ladies
Sun 2:15pm

As we come to the end of the season we see all three of our teams struggling to remain where they are. 

The Ladies are sitting in the relegation zone and need a good win against bottom of the table Henley and Hove to lose away from home to secure a place in Championship South next season. 

In Canterbury Shield Division 1 Devonport Warriors sit 8th out of 9 but have a number of unplayed matches, which if awarded a walkover could see them move up the table. Canterbury divisions are by invitation so are likely to retain their position for next season.

Albion are not safe from relegation and their fate may be decided after the official end of the season. I win on Saturday will of course help their fate but nothing is yet certain. It is likely that Albion will play Moseley mid week on Wednesday 29th April to avoid contract problems and Devon games.

Albion make the 200 mile journey to Moseley Road, making this the last time they’ll play.  Esher this season, when Esher visited the Fortress, it saw one of the players carried off the field and the unofficial website supporting straw boaters.  The Straw Boaters will be in evidence as the supporters are travelling by coach to show Albion their support.

Esher’s home gate averages at 713, well below that of Albion, so the travelling support from the travel club may boost their gate a little.  Esher have only won 3 games this season (against Newbury, Manchester and Sedgley Park) and are currently 11^th, a few below Albion.

Last week Esher played Sedgley ‘Tigers’, slaying the tiger by 76 points to 10

Players to look out for are:

Dougie Flockhart (Full back/Wing), who has only been with the club since last year, has scored an impressive 15 tries for his club this season.  Dougie also is a ‘Barbarians’ player

George Lowe (Centre) who has scored 11 tries

Tom Loizides (Wing) who has scored 6 tries

Robert Shaw who has scored 4 tries

Sabatian Jewell (fly-half) has 3 tries, 2 conversions, 1 drop goal and 6 penalties

David Slemen (fly-half) who previously played for harlequins, has scored 3 tries and 3 conversions

Sam Sticher (flanker), who joined the club in July last year, has previously played for Leeds and Wasps, has scored 3 tries this season.

Lee starling (No.8), Sebastian Stegmann (wing) who have each scored 3 tries.

Neil Hallett (fly-half/full back) who has been with the club four years, has this season scored 2 tries, 48 conversions and 26 penalties to his name, so if he gets a chance to kick the ball over the posts he will take it

CD’s – Albion win and possibly a bonus point

National League One Data

This table shows the for and against for each team. eg Tries 74/17 is 74 tries scored and 17 conceded. Con Rate is the percentage tries converted.

Next Fixtures

Side by side
Gate 925 avg 1612 max	Gate 3288 avg 6871 max
Form home w w w w w l l l l w l l l away w w l w l d l l l l w l w	Form home l l w d w w w w w w l l w w away l l w l w w l l d w l l
Best home game 76 - 10 Tigers Worst away game Leeds 47 - 21	Best home game 47 - 6 Man Worst away game Leeds 49 - 18
Most points in a match 20 Neil Hallett Titans 19 - 40 Esher G Lowe Man 28 - 40 Esher	Most points in a match 21 Kieran Hallett Albion 26 - 25 Nott'ham
Most tries in a match 4 G Lowe Man 28 - 40 Esher	Most tries in a match 2 Matt Hopper Albion 36 - 14 Esher Justin Mensah-Cover Albion 31 - 7 Tigers
Recent results   Esher 76 - 10 Tigers Esher 27 - 18 Cov Pirates 7 - 16 Esher Esher 23 - 17 Moseley Titans 19 - 40 Esher Leeds 47 - 21 Esher Man 28 - 40 Esher	Recent results   Albion 14 - 31 B Blues Welsh 22 - 9 Albion Knights 28 - 23 Albion Tigers 11 - 27 Albion Albion 20 - 33 Titans Chiefs 29 - 0 Albion
TRIES 15 Dougie Flockhart 11 G Lowe 6 Tom Loizides 4 Robert Shaw 3 Sabatian Jewell David Slemen Lee Starling Sebastian Stegmann Sam Sticher 2 Charlie Ainesbury Neil Hallett Colm Hannon James Hayter James Inglis Shawn Renwick 1 Charlie Amesbury Matteo Barbini Mike Blakeburn Toby Clouston Asten Croall Ignacio Elosu Simon Goldsmith Alex Rogers James Tubasei Sam Uoph Stuart Walker James Waterhouse	TRIES 6 Matt Hopper Justin Mensah-Cover 5 Geoff Griffiths 4 Arran Cruikshanks Gareth Evans 3 Mike Denbee Keni Fisilau Ryan Hopkins Tom Jarvis Wayne Sprangle 2 Liam Gibson Kieran Hallett Greg Nicholls James Owen Sean-Michael Stephen 1 Ross Allan Alex Davies Jannie Du Toit Ross Laidlaw Kyle Marriott Martin Rice
Kicking Points Con DG Pen Points Neil Hallett 48 - 26 174 Sabatian Jewell 2 1 6 25 David Slemen 3 - - 6 Sam Uoph - - 2 6	Kicking Points Con DG Pen Points Kieran Hallett 23 2 27 133 Ross Laidlaw 14 - 11 61 Alex Davies 7 - 12 50
Discipline SinBin Alex Ayling Matteo Barbini Dougie Flockhart (2) Simon Goldsmith Neil Hallett (2) Colm Hannon James Inglis David Millard Shawn Renwick Alex Rogers Stuart Walker	Discipline SinBin Arthur Brenton Arran Cruikshanks Jannie Du Toit Gareth Evans Keni Fisilau (3) Matt Hopper Tom Jarvis Sean-Michael Stephen (2)

Officials for the Day

Referee: Martin Fox
Touch judges: Ed Turnill, Peter Huckle

With only 3 matches this season in NL1 has seen Esher once already when they played Nottingham at their Christmas fixture.

Nottingham 12 - 19 Leeds Carnegie  (14-Dec-08)

Weather forecast

Current forecast is light rain daytime temp 8^oC with light south-westerly winds up to 9mph.

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