By Frank Stormont
April 26 2007

A look ahead at the final weekend of the 2006/7 season.  

The final weekend

Plymouth Albion v Leeds Tykes

Kick off 3pm 28th April

Brickfields Recreation Ground
Madden Rd
Plymouth
PL1 4NE

 

Leeds make their one of their longest trips in National League One this season as they travel to Brickfields in the knowledge that they will be back in the Premiership come September. Their start to the season could not have been more different to Albion's but now with the wrong results Albion could end up in 7th place.

With Tykes safe it is possible that they will not be pulling out all guns and risk injuries in the last match of the season.  Albion have more to play for after dropping from the 1st team in the south west to the third they will be looking at taking all 5 points from the fixture and hoping that they will move up the table.  With only one point between 4th and 7th anything is possible.

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Last meeting.

07 January 07
Leeds 14
Plymouth Albion 8

Attendance: = 2445

Albion travel to Headingley and very nearly come away with a win but could just not make it across the line and touch the ball down.

With Leeds spending most of the first half in Albion's half of the pitch and Albion reversed the run of play.

The team played with full commitment but had to be satisfied with a single bonus point.

Martin Schusterman scored Leeds first try taking Leeds into the lead that they never let go of.

More ...     This is ... Report   Opponents Report

Team: Nat Saumi, Tom Arscott, Regardt van Eyk, Keni Fisilau, Nic Sestaret, Ed Barnes, Ed Lewsey, Martin Rice, Richard Oxley, Scott Zimmerman, Dan Smith, Tom Hayes, Federico Genoud, Danny Thomas, Chris Lowrie Replacements: Sila Va'Enuku, Nigel Cane, Arran Cruickshanks(used), Tim Mathias, James Owen, Francisco Deformes(used), Brett Stroud(used)

Scorers :- Tries Keni Fisilau Penalties Regardt van Eyk

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Tables

 

 

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Predictions

Rugby Round up

A game, that at one stage looked like it could be a title decider, now sees it being about Albion chasing fourth place with Leeds having already won the title. Both sides lost last week as they look towards next season. Albion have a great record at the Brickfields, just two defeats there all season, but I think the Tykes will make it three with a five point win.

Rugby Times

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BetFred

Give the match to Tykes by 6 points

Frank

With Tykes already promoted and Albion eager not to finish in 7th place. Albion with the right motivation and the support of the home crowd. Albion to win with 4 tries, two of which will give Nic Sestaret 30 league tries in a season.

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Other Matches in the League.

Coventry v Cornish Pirates
Doncaster v Bedford
Exeter v Sedgley Park
Newbury v Earth Titans
Otley v London Welsh
Pertemps Bees v Nottingham
Waterloo v Moseley

All matches kick off at 3pm

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Visiting fans

Tickets can be purchased at the gate and for this match.

	Ground	Seated grandstand
Adult	£12	£17
Senior	£9	£14
Student	£9	£14
Child	£3	£10

Ground Information

Car park £3

Programme £2

Food/beer
Good selection of hot food such as pasties and curry. Beer at £2 a pint in the Ryearch Village bar upto 30 mins before kick-off.

Please note the Burger bar outside the ground is not part of Plymouth Albion

How to get there

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Red Shirts

Please note that there will be a photo call for the Red Shirts (alllbion website shirts) at 2:30pm outside the Ryearch Village. This will be the final photo call of the season.

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Alllbion player of the Season

The alllbion player of the season award will be presented to the winner after the match. If as many as possible can congregate around the entrance to the players changing room 10 minutes after the players go in to change.

VOTE HERE

(The voting lines will be closed at 10am on Friday 27th April.)

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Albion Apprentices

The Apprentices will be playing a match at 5pm on Saturday why not stay on to see the lads that may be playing for the first team in a few years.

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Looking forward

Limited issue this week but look forward to better Spy in the camps next season.

Over the closed season I hope to get some of the photos up that some of you have missed in the second half of the season.

I need some help in preparing reports of matches so if you would like to write a report or two it will help keep this site running.  If you think you can help please give me an email I can't do everything!

Keep coming back as I will try and keep you up to date with new signings as and when they become available. There should also be a quiz or two and even caption competitions.

There will be regular updates on the new stand