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London Media is securely in Surrey 2 next season!
Hi All,
Thought i'd send out a quick mail thanking everyone for a great season, a tough one, but from my perspective,
a battle is better than a walkover and ..
London Media is securely in Surrey 2 next season!
And all the stronger for it, I am really excited for the next season, I have seen a large number of new faces and great deal of talent enter the club this season.. It is all our duty to hold on to the new talent and encourage new faces to join in so please lend a hand and make sure you let all your mates know about the great London Media Rugby Club.. but before everyone puts away their boots in the back of the cupboard and the small willies amongst us don their cricket whites..
Remember that we will be starting up the mon and wed evenings clapham common off season touch next week (I believe) and we are going to be entering in a number of 7s tournaments so watch this space.
Great game at the weekend for the 1s, a truly dominant display, cutting the 3rd placed team in the league to ribbons for 80 minutes was the right send off to the season...
Thanks again for some champagne rugga this season and I'll hopefully see all of you out on the common soon..
Regards,
Wayno
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Date for Unders v Overs
As another season draws to a close for the Mighty Media, here's a round-up of our remaining fixtures:-
4th April - 1sts v Old Emanuel (home) 2nds vs Old Emanuel (away)
18th April - 30th May - 7s Season!
9th May - Cobham Vets tournament
16th May - The season's grand finale - The Under 30s v The Over 30s.
Any suggestions for entries into 7s or 10s tournaments are welcomed by the Committee.
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Media Alive and Kicking!!
Apologies to all, the credit crunch has not seen us off, and with luck we should see the season out surviving Surrey 2 as well!
Whilst the club is as active as ever the website has stuttered, the committee is addressing this and we hope to keep you better informed going forward.
If you have any thoughts, criticisms, suggestions or you just wish to rant,
please feel free to contact us.
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New Players
London Media are always looking to expand its player-base.
During the summer months, every Monday and Wednesday at 7pm,
we train on Clapham Common behind
"The
Windmill Pub". Feel free to come down - new joiners are
always welcome. Summer training usually involves lengthy games of touch rugby.
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A good performance
The 2nds had a tough game against Old Walcountians last weekend (25.10.2008)and went down 12-24.
The distinguishing aspect of the game was the size of OW's pack and I for one am feeling bruised today.
Media were there on time and after a good warm-up (with the opposition turning up 40 mins late) we exploded out of the blocks.
The pace was fast with the backs executing some precise moves in mid field and finding rewards out wide against a older, slower back line.
Media scored two good tries in the first 15 mins, both through the back with Michael our new antipodean outside centre running great lines and crashing over.
Jason "looking good" Coles marshalled the backs well and put in some good chips over the top.
Pete Guest took the ball on in the centres and Ish and Nick Corcoran, found good space and made sensible use of the ball.
It was great to have Glyn back on the pitch and his service and pick-and-go behind a pack which spent a lot of the afternoon going back-wards at set piece was needed.
I think Media were slightly shocked at going ahead so early in the game!
We switched off a little and let OW's play their game plan which involved giving the ball to one-of-three "Lurches" who smashed it up the center at every opportunity.
There was some great defence on our try-line and Media held Walcountians at bay for much of the first half, but the pressure led to us conceding a try despite some aggressive tackling and carrying from Matt playing in his Media debut.
The second half saw OW's luring us into a wrestling match with their pack and starved of possession we spent most of the 2nd half defending; it was all about the tackling.
Ali made some big hits along with JP, but our replacement Flankers Shens and Nick Reed were everywhere.
Nick deserves a special mention for making about 5 dump tackles on their forwards which raised the game and led a great break by Colsie down one wing with the ball going through hands to the other wing and being just inches from an amazing try.
Our forwards carried on battling and Rob Condon and Max Peiters got through a lot of work, in the end we were ground down and rolling mauls and scrums sapped some of out energy.
All in all it was a good performance.
I think the one thing we must immediately sort across both teams is the line-out.
This week was tricky as the opposition’s lifters were probably taller than our jumpers, but it's going to be very hard to reach out potential if we are losing 75% of set piece.
I think the 1's are probably feeling the same; we need to spend a bit of time on a Wednesday night working on our line-out.
Everyone needs to know how the calls work how we are lifting and jumping. I think if we get this sorted we will have a lot more possession and be able to control games.
Good turnout at the Latch in the evening, anyone owning up to getting it on with those drunken hockey girls!?
Benny
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