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Spy in the Camp - Leeds

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By Frank Stormont & CD
April 23 2009
The last weekend of the season and we again host to Leeds. Last time it was a draw but what will be the result this time.
 

This Weekend

v
Albion v Leeds
Saturday 25 April
K.O. 3 pm

Don't forget Moseley on Wednesday Coach only £20
pay at the travel club hut on Saturday or you will get left behind!
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Short one this week, as we know all about Leeds, or should I say NATIONAL ONE CHAMPIONS LEEDS

This week sees Leeds play the return match and travel 550 miles to the Fortress. Leeds RUFC is only 16 years old, it was formed in 1992 by a merger of Roundhay and Headingley, they became the Leeds Tykes in 1998 and in 2007 became Leeds Carnegie. 

There are quite a few Leeds fans travelling down – so if you find one looking lost – direct them to the nearest bar

Players to look out for

Any player on the pitch not in an Albion shirt. They’re all good, fast and play very well.

CDs’ prediction – 
Not doing one. We need a point to avoid relegation, if not relying on Bedford to beat Esher, if not Wednesday a point from Moseley, if not Division 2 is beckoning.
WE KNOW WHERE WE STAND… SO CHEER ON ALBION UNTIL THE FINAL WHISTLE… AND IN THE BAR AFTERWARDS…


Ps.. Still room on the coach for Wednesday – you know it makes sense!!

National League One Data

League Table

  PWDLFAdifTFTABPPnts
1Leeds29270212213708511713921129
 
2Chiefs29231510684446241525423117
3B Blues2922078424643781165018106
4Knights2921178865623241076517103
5Nott'ham2921089364774591255119101
6Welsh281701172856616287641682
7Pirates291611273656816893621581
8Cov2914015617673-5680881672
9Titans2914114755769-1494961165
10Albion2813213569602-336375965
11Esher2912116668780-112851021161
 
12Moseley2610016657679-2282961757
13Tigers2950244281179-75159166929
14N Blues2942233901017-62745140626
15Otley2831244111059-64846146923
16Man2920274121115-703521631018
ADJUSTMENTS

London Welsh -2 points
London Welsh fielded an ineligible player, Ben Thomas, against Rotherham due to a paperwork error.

Nottingham -2 points
Nottingham have had two league points deducted for including an un-registered player in their match squad for the match against Bedford played on 26th October.

Rotherham Titans -4 points
Back row forward Barry Jacobsz effective registration with the RFU expired on 18th Sept 2008 yet the player was included in Rotherham's match squad for 2 matches.

 

Points by type & Discipline Record

TeamTriesConsCon
Rate		PensDrop
goals		Pen
try		YellRed
Leeds168/39130/267732/360/55/07/130/0
Albion61/7247/407751/442/52/211/190/0

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


Saturday 25 April

Bedford BluesvEsher
Cornish PiratesvLondon Welsh
CoventryvNottingham
Exeter ChiefsvDoncaster Knights
ManchestervMoseley
Newbury BluesvSedgley Tigers
OtleyvRotherham Titans
Plymouth AlbionvLeeds Carnegie


Wednesday 29 April

MoseleyvPlymouth Albion

 

Some interesting facts about this season

Leeds

Leeds need 100 points to equal most points in a season in level two rugby, the current holders are Northampton Saints who last year accumulated 1321 points.
They need 20 tries to pass Northampton's 1192 last season but have already passed the most conversions with 130. This season they have been the best away supported with on average gaining 161% of the average gate for each team. ( the next best was Bedford who picked up a gate of 116%)

Albion

Over the last two seasons two players have scored three drop goals in a match, both times this was against Albion. Before the travel club coach went to Esher Albion were the worst away supported team in the league. On average we were only picking up an average of 78%
 

Side by side

 Gate
3288 avg 6871 max		Gate
3241 avg 5463 max
Form
home l l w d w w w w w w l l w w
away l l l l w l w w l l d w l l		Form
home w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w
away w w l l w w w w w w w w w w
Best home game
47 - 6 Man
Worst away game
Leeds 49 - 18		Best home game
66 - 0 Tigers
Worst away game
Knights 27 - 12
Most points in a match
21
Kieran Hallett
Albion 26 - 25 Nott'ham		Most points in a match
26
James Brooks
Otley 10 - 66 Leeds
Most tries in a match
2
Matt Hopper
Albion 36 - 14 Esher
Justin Mensah-Cover
Albion 31 - 7 Tigers		Most tries in a match
4
Tom Biggs
Man 0 - 104 Leeds
Lee Blackett
N Blues 12 - 89 Leeds
Jon Goodridge
Leeds 53 - 20 Moseley
Recent results
Pirates30 - 14Albion
Esher31 - 28Albion
Albion14 - 31B Blues
Welsh22 - 9Albion
Knights28 - 23Albion
Tigers11 - 27Albion
Albion20 - 33Titans
Recent results
Leeds57 - 14N Blues
Man0 - 104Leeds
Moseley26 - 31Leeds
Leeds33 - 9Pirates
B Blues27 - 24Leeds
Knights27 - 12Leeds
Leeds47 - 21Esher
TRIES
6
Matt Hopper
Justin Mensah-Cover
5
Arran Cruikshanks
Geoff Griffiths
4
Gareth Evans
Wayne Sprangle
3
Mike Denbee
Keni Fisilau
Liam Gibson
Ryan Hopkins
Tom Jarvis
2
Kieran Hallett
Greg Nicholls
James Owen
Sean-Michael Stephen
1
Ross Allan
Arthur Brenton
Alex Davies
Jannie Du Toit
Scott Ireland
Ross Laidlaw
Kyle Marriott
Martin Rice
TRIES
15
Leigh Hinton
12
Tom Biggs
11
Scott Armstrong
Lee Blackett
Jonny Hepworth
10
Jon Goodridge
9
Hendre Fourie
8
James Brooks
Mike MacDonald
7
Danny Paul
6
Scott Barrow
Rob Vickerman
Richard Welding
5
Andy Boyde
John Dunbar
4
Alberto Di Bernardo
Rhys Oakley
3
Calum Clark
Kearnan Myall
Jonathan Pendlebury
2
Joe Bedford
Villami Ma'asi
Scott Mathie
Philip Murphy
Phil Nilsen
Peter Wackett
1
Tim Davidson
Francisco Juan Gomez
Erik Lund
Tom McGhee
Henry Paul
Rob Rawlinson
Jacob Rowan
Jason Strange
D White
Kicking PointsConDGPenPoints
Kieran Hallett23227133
Ross Laidlaw16-1268
Alex Davies8-1252
 
Kicking PointsConDGPenPoints
Alberto Di Bernardo64-21191
Jason Strange37-11107
James Brooks18--36
Leigh Hinton8--16
Scott Barrow1--2
Francisco Juan Gomez1--2
Danny Paul1--2
Discipline

SinBin
Arthur Brenton
Arran Cruikshanks
Jannie Du Toit
Gareth Evans
Keni Fisilau (3)
Matt Hopper
Tom Jarvis
Sean-Michael Stephen (2)
Discipline

SinBin
Scott Armstrong
Juan Gomez
Rhys Oakley
Jonathan Pendlebury
Rob Rawlinson
Rob Vickerman
Richard Welding

Visiting Brickfields

If you haven't been to Brickfields before you will be in for a friendly welcome from the club and the home support.

The ground is growing into a great stadium with plenty of food and beverage outlets to suit all comers. You can get anything from a chocolate bar to a four course sit down meal.

Click for more details on the ground, menus and enterance prices.
Click to see more details on the ground

 

Halftime Entertainment.

 

New for this season the Plympton Rotary Club, together with the Plympton Rotaract Club (junior version of Rotary) and with the DoR's blessing will be (weather permitting) running a charity event at home games from now on.

At half time we will be inviting up to 50 kids a chance to take part in a drop goal competition at the club house end of the pitch.

The cost will be £1 entry and each entrant has just 1 life. The last one standing will win the prize.

50% of the profits will be going to Albion with the other 50% going to Rotary charities - this year both the Plympton Rotary and Rotaract Club's are supporting Ellie's Haven - a charity based down near Looe.

Those of you with kids, please bring them along and encourage them to take part. We will be limiting to the first 50 though - unlike the one we held at the end of last season where we wanted as many as possible.

Book your place on arrival with Darren Hands who will be at the north end (main car park end) of the grandstand. Any steward will be able to point him out.

Best of luck!

 

Weather forecast

Current forecast is light rain max daytime temp 12oC with light south westerly winds up to 20mph.

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cheers frank... this one was hard for me to write - and re-wrote the 'spy' several times...
COME ON ALBION _ YOU CAN DO IT xx

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Very good piece - excellent stats! Suspect some of them may be a bit awry (don't recall Juan Gomez, a hulking prop, take a conversion... smiling smiley ) but they really do encapsulate the teams well.

And thanks for the offer of directions - although I suspect most of us will find a watering hole ok (in fog, at night, blindfolded!)

Setting off down your way in ten minutes - turn the sun on please?

Still a Tyke - whatever the name!

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Nice One.....see you Satdee!

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Good preview, see you tomorrow!

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Well done you two, as informative and instructive as ever.

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nice preview

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Leeds Team Up

Come on Alllbion!

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