Newbury

By Frank Stormont
September 19 2008

Look at this weekend and the fixture against the team currently holding up the bottom of the table. Lets hope we don't give them too many chances to move off the bottom.

This Weekend

v
N Blues v Albion
Saturday 20 September
K.O. 3 pm

Also

Ladies v Richmond II 
Sun 2pm
main pitch

If you have been looking at the club site you may also be expecting the Warriors to be playing hosts to Wasps. This match has been called off since Wasps are no longer in the Canterbury Shield.

An attempt is being made to arrange another match but no luck yet. If I find out anything before I travel to Newbury I will post it on the messageboard.

With Mike Denbee being all but ruled out for Saturday who will fill his place? Jamie Tripconey, Gareth Evans, Sean-Michael Stephen and Kyle Marriott are all potentials. Even if of one them are named in the squad on Friday it may well change for Saturday.

Newbury have not had a good start to the season but they have had top of the table Bedford  and Pirates as well as Moseley, whom seem to be doing well this season. They have scored just 5 tries and only converted 2 of them with not a single penalty goal to their name.

Ex Albion Nick Defty was in the starting line up against Pirates in their first match of the season and played 56 minutes but has not featured since. Gareth Griffiths has scored the only kicking points for Newbury and flanker Mark Lee has scored 2 of their tries from the flanker position. 

Note to alllb10n tem mangers you will not get an points for your team if you have selected our own Mark Lee in your fantasy tem. 

My team for Saturday:- NOT the official team.

Martin

James

Ryan

Danny (c)

Colin

Arthur

Mike

Sean-Michael

Greg

Kieran

Liam

Keni

Arran

Justin

Geoff

Bench

Ross

David

Gareth

Jamie

James

Ed

Tom

Ladies team

Jo Holden, Plymouth Albion Ladies Club Captain, is in buoyant mode ahead of their first match of the season today. After a change to the fixtures Albion will be hosting Richmond on the main pitch at Brickfields at 2pm.

Holden, who herself will starting at 2, is happy with the preparations the squad have made for their second season in Championship South and hopes her squad will be pushing for promotion come the end of the season.

Richmond are expected to bring down a strong pack but Jo believes Albion will be able to match them with the strongest pack Albion have had for some time. The ladies side has already been augmented by strong players that last season were playing for the under 18 side. 

Jo admits the law variations will be challenging. "I think the new rules are going to test everyone, they are going to test us and they are going to test the referees and we are going to see how the other teams are going to react to them. We have been training for them and we are prepared.

"Irish", Rachel Tucker will take he place again as captain on the pitch and pack leader. As Jo says she leads by example and will soon show how to improve!

Albion will be expecting plenty of vocal support from the two girls teams who will having a joint training session with Kingsbridge before the match. The under 15s and 18s will be starting their league next month in the newly formed south west league. 

Please come along the ladies will welcome your support at the beginning of the season.

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.

Recent fixtures between Albion and Newbury

April 08 - Albion 35 Newbury 7

Dec 07 - Newbury 15 Albion 13

Feb 07 - Albion 29 Newbury 7

Oct 06 - Newbury 23 Albion 28

Feb 06 - Newbury 27 Albion 18

Oct 05 - Albion 41 Newbury 52

Full details of matches check out this link

Other Fixtures

 (current place in league)

Click on club name to get to the official website

 To check out my NL1 data check this LINK

SitC Newbury - Monks Lane

Discussion started by Unofficial Plymouth Albion (IP Logged), 19/09/2008 00:10

Unofficial Plymouth Albion
19/09/2008 00:10

SitC Newbury - Monks Lane

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ianbol
19/09/2008 20:42

Good one, Frank.

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