U15s Presentation Day and Season Review
End of Season Awards – more parents than players!
Presentation Day
It was the last day of the season. Everyone gathered at Fromehall for the highly anticipated end of season awards.
Rugby superstars were gathered on stage ready to hand out awards. Rugby Royalty in fact. The Stroud U15s coaching team (aka Touch Rugby masters) were joined by their new recruits – Glos legends Willi Heinz and Mark Atkinson and Quins coach Mark Mapletoft.
So the coaches were there, the parents were there. A few players were there – more injured than fit but great to see Darion again and Bernie back on the mend. Most of the players were away with school trips, DofE, Glos Rugby Academy, or just AWOL. Never mind – the trophies needed giving out to well deserving players:
| Award | Winner | Link to Stroud U15s |
| Players Player | Karen Hayes | Wearing her sons shirt |
| Coach’s Player | Tori Miller | Blue hair |
| Most Improved Player | Bernie | A real player |
“It’s a stitch up” called the few remaining players. Laurie didn’t want to do DofE expedition this week, Mr T hates flying and was sent on a Geography field trip to Iceland. “It’s all about the Mum’s” came the response. "We love to meet professional sportsmen and wind up our sons." Jo had to do a hasty re-count and re-announce the awards:
| Award | Winner | Link to Stroud U15s |
| Players Player | Laurie | Dominant lineout play and play in the loose |
| Coach’s Player | Mr T | Big tackles and punishing runs |
| Most Improved Player | Bernie | Solidifying the scrum. Bravery in the tackle |
So the U15s BBQ this Friday to celebrate our season and pass on the trophies to those that were missing.
Special thanks from Stroud U15s to M&J chair Nicky Gamble who has done an amazing job over many seasons for Stroud Rugby, and also her work with GRFU.
Season Review
Quick season review. 20 games played. 6 at home. 14 away.
Won 13. 8 we scored 50+ points
Lost 7. 4 within 1 try of victory, and 2 of those the 2nd half reffing was totally different to the dominant 1st half we had…. You can probably guess those games
Played teams from 8 counties – see if you can guess them…..
... its an educational match report for those absent Marling Geographers in Iceland....
| Opponent | Score | Tries For | Tries Against | Miles driven |
| Old Pats | 52-22 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| Banbury | 43-25 | 7 | 5 | 100 |
| St Brendans | 45-34 | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| Matson | 38-34 | 6 | 6 | 16 |
| Berry Hill | 55-30 | 8 | 6 | 63 |
| Bromsgrove | 29-31 | 5 | 5 | 102 |
| Minchinhampton | 33-20 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Cinderford | 24-29 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Chippenham | 51-41 | 8 | 7 | 48 |
| Bath | 26-34 | 4 | 6 | 55 |
| Clifton | 21-44 | 3 | 7 | 56 |
| Chippenham | 24-30 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| Cheltenham | 50-29 | 8 | 4 | 44 |
| Cinderford | 12-40 | 2 | 6 | 56 |
| Old Pats | 29-15 | 5 | 3 | 28 |
| Old Brentwoods | 59-38 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| Cirencester | 28-31 | 4 | 5 | 28 |
| Marlborough | 52-3 | 8 | 0 | 78 |
| Wellington | 52-19 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| Bideford | 55-0 | 9 | 0 | 345 |
| Totals | 778-546 | 122 | 94 | 1019 |
Scored 778, Against 546. 122 tries scored for average of 6/game and against 94 tries – but a clean sheet in last game so things are looking up defensively ;-)
Travelled 1019 miles round trip to away games from Fromehall. If you want to claim petrol expenses then Jenks knows a good accountant…..
So those 8 counties: Glos, Wiltshire, Oxon, Worcestershire, Essex, Devon, Somerset, and Bristol (it’s a County and a City!)
Beat 2 County champions – Banbury won their Oxon County Cup and Old Brentwoods won Essex County Cup - congrats to them. And based on Bideford result and common games vs Ivybridge we could have beaten Devon RFU champs as well – he says optimistically….. We also had much better showing vs Clifton which was a big positive.
See you all next season – for 2000 miles of travel based on Chris’ latest fixture list.
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