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29th June'09 - Derby RFC Club Shop End of Season Sale takes place on Tuesday 30th June from 6.30pm to 7.30pm and on Thursday 2nd July from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. To view the Special Sale prices click here (Adobe PDF doc).

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28th June'09 - Local Primary Schools Tag Rugby Tournament took place at Derby RFC on Friday 26th June having been organised by Deborah Murray and supported by Derby Vipers Ladies. View photographs from the tournament.

Derby RFC U16 Lead Coach opportunity - An opportunity has arisen for a Voluntary Level 2 Qualified Coach to lead the Derby RFC U16 Squad

Roles and Responsibilities:

Lead the coaching team of six coaches responsible for DRFC U16’s squad of 40+ players covering the full range of abilities from NLD to Club players.

Lead the planning of the coaching programme for the season.

Lead the planning, preparation and delivery of individual coaching sessions for the age group squad.

Lead the coaching team to ensure that all sessions are designed to develop the skills and understanding of the players in your squad.

Evaluate coaching sessions and games with the coaching team and players.

Attend Wednesday evening coaching sessions (7.30 – 9.00pm) and Sunday morning matches.

Mentor and advise Assistant coaches and players where appropriate.

The Lead Coach must be minimum level 2 RFU coach qualified.

Provide feedback to coaches, players and parents.

Ideally the Lead Coach will be available to start at the beginning of September.

The club will support the appointed Coach in developing his coaching through attendance of RFU CPD courses & other Coaching qualifications as well as mentoring available from the Derby RFC Colts coaches.

Queries concerning any aspect of the position can be discussed with Gary Rudkin, Club Coaching Co-ordinator, Derby RFC: 07957 140054

Interested parties should e-mail a coaching CV to Gary Rudkin, Club Coaching Co-ordinator, Derby RFC:
gary.rudkin(at)derbyrfc.com (replace (at) with @)

Closing date 10th July 2009

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9th June'09 - The Minis & Juniors AGM takes place on Thursday 25th June at the Club. The start time is 7.30pm.

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31st May'09 - The Minis & Juniors Presentation Day took place today, here's the list of awards and photographs of the players receiving their awards.

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19th May'09 - Minis & Juniors Presentation Day will take place at the Club on Sunday 31st May 2009. Juniors will commence at 10.15am and Minis at 11.30am.

10.15am

Introduction and résumé of the year for the section.

10.25am

U13s – U16s in turn Head Coach / Manager.

 

Round-up of the season.

 

Accolades as appropriate to players.

11.05am

Awards.

 

Most Improved Players of the Year.

 

Players Players of the Year.

 

Coaches Players of the Year.

11.15am

Close

 

Break

11.30am

Introduction and résumé of the year for the section.

11.40am

U7s – U12s in turn Head Coach / Manager.

 

Round-up of the season.

 

Accolades as appropriate to players.

12.20pm

Awards.

 

Most Improved Players of the Year.

 

Players Players of the Year.

 

Coaches Players of the Year.

12.40pm

Close

 After the awards, it is anticipated that there will be a kicking competition and a barbeque.

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13th May'09 - We've a gig night at the Club on Saturday 30th May with Blues Assurance which has U14s Coach Alastair Boden as the lead singer.

The gig is in aid of Tour Funds for the U14s. Tickets are priced at £5 each. Start time is 8pm.

Tickets are available from Paul Fish, Scott Johnson, Alastair Bowden or from behind the bar at Haslams.

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4th May'09 - Derby's U13s have added the Newbury 10s Plate to their list of achievements this season. In the Final the result was Derby 14 - 00 Devonport Services.

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30th Apr'09 - Derby City Rugby League FC will be running 3 Junior Age groups this Summer:
U12s: Boys in school years 6 & 7, U14s: Boys in school years 8 & 9, U16s: Boys in school years 10 & 11.

Rugby League is an excellent sport for developing fitness during the Summer months as well as focusing on core rugby playing skills of Evasive Running, Handling & Tackling.

U12 training commenced on Wednesday 29th April whilst U14 & U16 Training will commence on Wednesday 6th May.  All age groups train from 7pm - 8.30

We plan to play games Home & Away on Sunday mornings every fortnight during the Season through to the end of July/start of the Schools Summer Holiday. Further details can be found on the Rugby League website: www.derbycityrlfc.co.uk in the Dragons Den section

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries, I look forward to seeing you again.

Gary Rudkin
Club Coaching Co-ordinator
Derby City RLFC
Mobile: 07957 140054

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27th Apr'09 - Derby U13s beat Lincoln 28 - 00 in the Final of yesterday's NLD Sevens Tournament. Our U13s are are now the NLD U13s Cup holders in both 15 aside and 7 aside rugby.

Derby's U14s were also involved in NLD 7s action yesterday and won the Plate Final with a 29 - 21 win over Ilkeston U14s. Read more about the U14s in their NLD 7s tournament report.

Derby U15s entered two teams in the U15s NLD 7s tournament held at Paviors yesterday.

The Derby A side had a really strong group but had some excellent results to finish comfortably for the later stages of the Cup competition which they eventually won, beating Paviors comfortably in the final.

The B team topped their group and at one time were trailing in the final by three tries to nil before making a big comeback to ease a win against a strong Stamford side in the Plate final.

The remainder of the U15s squad travelled to Burton and had two hard fought wins against Burton and Stoke.

Derby U14s (above)
Derby U15s
Derby U15s

Last Wednesday evening 8 players from our U14s were selected to play for NLD in a triangular tournament against East Midlands and Leicestershire.

Pictured right are David Eades, George Castledine, James Brentnall, Ben Cooper, George Tresidder and Joe Mansfield who represented the A team. Also pictured are Archie Lynn and Nick Wesson who represented the B team.

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21st Apr'09 - Derby RFC held the annual Derby Minis Rugby Festival on Sunday 19th April. The weather was hot and the standard of Rugby was excellent across all of the age groups which ranged from U7s through to U12s. The results of the day were:

Age Group Winners Runners Up Festival Photo Gallery Links
U7s Cup Banbury Melbourne U7s Photo Gallery
Plate Derby Stafford
U8s Cup Banbury Newark U8s Photo Gallery
Plate Melbourne Ilkeston
U9s Cup Banbury / Melbourne (Shared Winners) U9s Photo Gallery
Plate Newcastle Ilkeston
U10s Cup Melbourne Derby U10s Photo Gallery
Plate Banbury Ilkeston
U11s Cup Derby / Banbury (Shared Winners) U11s Photo Gallery
Plate Ilkeston Newark
U12s Cup Derby Hinckley U12s Photo Gallery
Plate Melbourne Ilkeston

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20th Apr'09 - Further success at the NLD Finals Day - Derby RFC had 3 Junior sides in the NLD Finals Day yesterday (Sunday 20th April) which was held at Chesterfield RFC. The result was a 3 out of 3 success for the Derby sides with the following results:

Derby U14s 38 – 15 Newark U14s (in the U14s NLD Cup Final)

Derby U16s ‘A’ 68 – 12 Kesteven U16s (in the U16s NLD Cup Final)

Derby U16s ‘B’ 22 – 07 Stamford U16s (in the NLD Plate Final)

Recently our U12s and U13s have also been successful in their respective NLD age group Finals. On the 22nd March our U12s won 15 – 05 against Kesteven U12s in the U12s NLD Cup Final and on the 29th March our U13s won 22 – 19 against Newark U13s in the U13s NLD Cup Final.

Graham Darby (Co Chairman of Rugby at Derby RFC) has made the following comment: “Another record breaking season for Derby Juniors! Congratulations to everybody for their success in NLD competitions this year and especially the lads of the U16s B who won the NLD Plate after season upon season of grafting, they deserve that honour. Its goes without saying how hugely proud the club are of our talented young people across all of our age groups and the work that has gone into making them what they are by you and your colleagues in the squads."

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15th Apr'09 - A few points for Sunday's Derby RFC Mini Festival from Alan Williams to Derby's Mini Age Group Coaches. In the programme (already gone to press) the TBC teams (U8s, U9s, U10s) is Newcastle (Staffs) meaning we have a full complement throughout all ages.

Can Derby coaches set up cones for both pitches in your respective age group first thing on Sunday morning please. If you don't have enough cones for two pitches can you let your age group committee member, Paul Fish or me know ASAP please.

U12s Pitch 1 (1st XV team Pitch)
U11s Pitch 3
U10s Pitch 2
U9s Pitch 4 (Training Pitch with floodlights)
U8s Buffalo Pitch
U7s Darley Park side of Pitch 1 (still on Haslams)

Timings: Registration by 10.15am at Control, Referee Meeting 10.30 in front of Club House/Control.
Can all Derby teams (not age group as most have two Derby Teams) provide one coach to referee please. Kick Off is at 11.00am.

Three of Derby's Junior sides are in the NLD Finals which take place on the 19th April at Chesterfield RFC. They are: Derby U14s v Newark U14s KO 11.30am NLD Cup Final, Derby U16s B v Stamford U16s A KO 12.30pm NLD Plate Final and Derby U16s A v Kesteven U16s KO 1.00pm NLD Cup Final.

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14th Apr'09 - Following a recent EPDG (Elite Player Development Group) game at Leicester Tigers on Sunday  29th March two of our U15s Harry Rudkin and James Thraves have been selected to take part in the Final Selection game on Friday at Oval Park.

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12th Apr'09 - In yet another enthralling Gullivers Rugby Festival Derby's U10s, U11s and U13s all competed in this years Festival held on the 10th and 11th April 2009. Here's the Photograph Galleries of our Under 10s, our Under 11s and our Under 13s in action in various games throughout the two days of the Festival.

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9th Apr'09 - Alan Williams is looking for some additional assistance for the forthcoming Derby Minis Festival which is being held on the 19th April.

Donations of raffle prizes - please contact katepotter3@hotmail.com or on 01332 553694.

Cakes for our Cakes Stall (homemade or otherwise) - please leave cake donations on the day of the Festival at the Control tent.

Pitch marking - 4.30pm, Sat 18th April. Two helpers per age group. Please contact your age group Committee Member or Alan Williams on 01332 732651 if you can assist.

Car Parking - 8.30am Sun 19th April. Three helpers per age group. Please contact your age group Committee Member or Alan Williams on 01332 732651 if you can assist.

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4th Apr'09 - Six Derby U16s have been selected in the NLD U17 Development Squad for their first match on Wednesday 8th April at Burton v Staffordshire. The players are: Tom Summerscales, Sam Tresidder, Callan Watson, Jim Wigglesworth, Rob Beeston and Max Argyle making up a quarter of the NLD squad !

Last Wednesday evening under the lights at Paviors our U16s booked a place in the NLD Cup Final with a 48 - 00 win over Melbourne.

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29th Mar'09 - Derby U13s are successful in today's NLD Cup Final with a 22 - 19 win over Newark. At half time Newark were 19 - 5 up but with a 'never say die attitude' Derby pulled it back in the second half with just 10 minutes to go !

Last Sunday our Derby U12s also won the NLD Cup by beating Kesteven 15 - 05 having defeated Newark in the semi final by the same score. A great team display with fast attacking rugby supplemented by resolute defending.

Derby's U7s, U8s 'A' and U8s 'B' were all competing in the U7s and U8s NLD Tag Festival held in Nottingham today. Here's the Photograph Galleries for the U7s, U8s 'A' and U8s 'B'.

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22nd Mar'09 - Photographs from the Under 11s NLD Finals Day and the Under 12s NLD Finals Day held at Derby RFC today.

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18th Mar'09 - Revised dates for The Tigers Camp at Derby RFC is now scheduled from the 27th July to 31st July. More information and details about how to book can be found here.

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16th Mar'09 - NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - Notification is given of an Emergency General Meeting to be held in the Club House at Haslams on Thursday 26th March 2009 at 9pm. The resolutions are:

1. To appoint new auditors for the club.

2. To incorporate the club as a Company Limited by Guarantee.

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12th Mar'09 - The Derby RFC May Ball will soon be upon us, and as you probably know the date of the 16th May'09 is the day.

Please use our booking form (Adobe PDF doc) for you to book your table, or part table, don't worry if you only want a couple of tickets, we'll contact you to discuss who you might be able to share a table with.

Please do try and book now as we can start to plan the tables out and be sure of the numbers. We expect this year will be a big one! Everyone is coming together this year, Vets, Seniors, Mini, Juniors and Ladies alike, to make this a really good night of celebration and fun. A great band are booked for the night, those of you that attended last year will know what I'm talking about, but this year they are being elevated to a stage, so we can see even more of them and dance the night away too!

Any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Richard Beavers, Jane Kirk, or myself. Looking forward to seeing you there, Martyn Murney.

Derby RFC May Ball 2009
Derby RFC May Ball 16th May'09 - click poster for more info
Link to Booking form

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26th Feb'09 - RFU Grand Prize Monies and ticket stubs REMINDER - we've been given till this weekend to get our monies and stubs in, please return them to the Club marked for the attention of Graham Darby by Sunday 1st March at the very latest please.

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22nd Feb'09: Known results for today's Juniors Fixtures: Ashfield U14s 29 - 58 Derby U14s Stags, Selby U15s 03 - 36 Derby U15s, Syston U16s 07 - 69 Derby U16s, Derby U17s 19 - 17 Loughborough.

Whilst not knowing the results here's some Photographs from today's Derby U12s 'A' v Macclesfield game and of the Derby U12s 'B' / Macclesfield / Ashbourne games.

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21st Feb'09 - Two Derby RFC Colts have been selected by the Nottingham Rugby Academy to take part in the Balls to Poverty Charity Tour 2009 to South Africa. The tour is being organised by South Nottingham College, a key partner in the Donald Woods Foundation which aims to fight poverty in underdeveloped parts of South Africa, primarily through education, health and community-building programmes.

Ryan Holmes and Joe Pass will take part in coaching and distribution of rugby balls to underprivileged children in the Transkei region in early April. This is a great opportunity for the lads to help other young people who have not had their opportunities in life and will enable them to give something back to the sport.

They have been set a target of raising £500 each for the charity and hope that you can help them achieve this goal.

Please visit their fund raising websites:

www.justgiving.com/ryanholmes and www.justgiving.com/joepass

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17th Feb'09 - RFU Grand Prize Monies and ticket stubs must be returned to the Club marked for the attention of Graham Darby by Monday 23rd February at the latest please.

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15th Feb'09 - See Minis Fixtures and Juniors Fixtures for latest updates to games taking place today Sunday 15th February 2009.

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8th Feb'09 - It's Gig night at the Club on Saturday 28th February at 8pm with 'Pro Rata' a 5 piece cover band (they've played the club before). Tickets are £5 each available from the Haslams bar or John McNeilly. The gig is in aid of the U16s Tour to Cork.

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7th Feb'09 - Tomorrow's Minis & Juniors fixtures / training are cancelled due to the condition of the pitches at Derby RFC following the recent snow / freezing grounds.

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4th Feb'09 - Junior training this evening at the Club is cancelled.

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1st Feb'09 - Derby's U16s had a 03 - 56 away win against Grimsby U16s today in a NLD Cup 2nd Group fixture.

For information about the Derby RFC Whole Club Development Plan (WCDP) please see the entry on the Club News page dated 2nd Feb'09.

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25th Jan'09 - Prior to yesterday's Newark 1st XV v Derby 1st fixture there was a curtain raiser game of Newark U11s v Derby U11s. Here's the photographs from this U11s game.

Today saw a 48-05 win for Derby's U16s Devs against Ilkeston U16s.

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21st Jan'09 - Last Saturday 5 of the U15s, Sam Martin, Harry Rudkin, James Thraves, Jared Parkinson and Tom Hicks represented NLD in games at the Leicester Tigers training ground, Oval Park. All acquitted themselves well and all were involved in victories over Stafford and Leicestershire.

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13th Jan'09 - U16s updates - Two of our U16s players have recently taken part in the Midlands U16s National Divisional Festival held at Moseley RFC, they are Rory Lynn and Jim Wigglesworth.

EPDG at Leicester Tigers - U16s players Rory Lynn, Jim Wigglesworth, Sam Tressider and Tom Summerscales have all been selected to play in today's final selection game for the Elite Player Development Group at Leicester Tigers. Today's selection game follows on from the earlier selection game held in December of Leicester Tigers U16s v Saracens U16s in which Rory, Jim, Sam and Tom all played in. The result was Leicester Tigers U16s 10 - 05 Saracens U16s.

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11th Jan'09 - The only Minis & Juniors fixture to take place today at Derby RFC was the Derby U16s v Mold U16s game. The result was Derby U16s 13 - 00 Mold U16s.

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24th Dec'08 - The Praha Youth gig which was due to take place on the 27th December has been cancelled.

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XMAS Parties at Derby RFC - Tomorrow night (Saturday 20th Dec) 7.30pm till late is the Derby RFC Adults XMAS party. Tickets are £10 each which includes buffet and disco.

The Kids Xmas Party takes place on Sunday 21st Dec'08 4.00pm till 6.00pm, tickets priced at £2.50 with buffet and disco plus games and prizes.

Tickets for both parties are available from behind the bar or from Richard Lucas, Phil Maddocks or Jane Kirk.

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14th Dec'08 - Rory Lynn and Jim Wigglesworth have been selected for the Midlands U16s squad following their recent success at the Midlands Assessment Weekend at Longton on the 29th/30th November and the followup Final Trials at Solihull on the 7th December.

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13th Dec'08 - Due to waterlogged pitches ALL Minis & Juniors home games and training are cancelled for Sunday 14th Dec'08.

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11th Dec'08 - U16s Tour fundraiser Gig on Saturday 27th Dec'08 at 8pm- The Praha Youth will play their own excellent songs and will include covers from inspirational Bands – Oasis, Kings of Leon, The Killers & The Beatles. A band for the lads and their friends but Dads, Mums, Brothers'n'Sisters will all enjoy their music just as much and it’s right in the middle of Christmas Holiday, so should be good for many of us. Everyone and all age groups welcome. Tickets priced at £3 each available from Sean Allkins on 07950 399944.

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8th Dec'08 - Derby's U13s and U14s are through to their respective age group NLD Finals after their semi final wins yesterday. Results were U13s: Derby 21 - 20 Stamford, U14s Derby 28 - 05 Paviors.

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1st Dec'08 - XMAS Parties at Derby RFC - Adults 20th Dec'08 7.30pm till late, tickets priced at £10 each, includes buffet and disco.

Kids Party 21st Dec'08 4.00pm till 6.00pm, tickets priced at £2.50 with buffet and disco plus games and prizes.

Tickets for both parties available from behind the bar or from Richard Lucas, Phil Maddocks or Jane Kirk.

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30th Nov'08 - Known results for Minis & Juniors sides today - U13s: Scunthorpe 10 - 28 Derby Tigers, Derby U11s were at the Macclesfield Tournament yesterday, here's the report.

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26th Nov'08 - Ilkeston RFC is to host 3 County Rugby fixtures this Sunday 30th Nov'08 which are all Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire in the age groups of U14s, U15s and U16s. Kickoff time for all 3 games is 2pm. Note these Fixtures were to have been held at Derby RFC but have now been changed to Ilkeston.

Pictured right are Derby U14s players Tom Antrobus, Jamie Twigge, Will Skeates, Adrian Hex, Nick Wesson and Tom Kent who are all selected to play in the Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire game on Sunday. All 6 players were involved in last Sunday's Derbyshire v Lincolnshire game at Sleaford which was by all accounts a thrilling game with Derbyshire being denied 3 tries in the last ten minutes. The final result was 00 - 00.

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25th Nov'08 - U16s Tour fundraiser Gig on Saturday 27th Dec'08 - The Praha Youth will play their own excellent songs and will include covers from inspirational Bands – Oasis, Kings of Leon, The Killers & The Beatles. A band for the lads and their friends but Dads, Mums, Brothers'n'Sisters will all enjoy their music just as much and it’s right in the middle of Christmas Holiday, so should be good for many of us. Everyone and all age groups welcome. Tickets priced at £3 each available from Sean Allkins on 07950 399944.

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23rd Nov'08 - NLD U9s and U10s Qualifiers took place at Derby RFC today. Here's photographs of Derby U9s in their games against Bakewell and Melbourne and also photographs of Derby U10s in their games against Ilkeston A, Ilkeston B and Matlock. Derby's U9s are through to the Shield Finals and our U10s are through to both the Cup and Shield Finals.

Known results for Derby sides today U13s: Nottingham 10 - 19 Derby, U17s: Lincoln 34 - 10 Derby.

Continued success for Derby U17s player - Ryan Holmes, Derby U17s, Derby Grammar School and Nottingham Academy, has been selected for the U18 Midlands Squad. Ryan is one of only 2 NLD players selected and is the only Derbyshire player in the squad. Preparations now start for the Divisional Festival which will be staged at Broadstreet from January 2 to 4 in front of the National U18 selectors.

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19th Nov'08 - Tom Summerscales, Rory Lynn, Sam Tresidder and Jim Wigglesworth of our U16s have been selected to attend the Midlands Divisional Assessment Weekend at Longton on Nov 29-30th from where 2 teams will be selected to take part in the Midlands U16 final trial at Solihull School on 7th December from which a Midlands Squad will be selected to take part in Divisional Tournaments at Broadstreet in January 09 (from which the England U16 and England A U16 squads will be selected to take part in squad sessions over February and March and then Tournaments in April.)

NLD U16s beat East Midlands U16s by 19 points to 18 in the mud at Ledbury RFC on Sunday 16th November in a Midlands Super Sunday Tournament with our own Jim Wigglesworth and Sam Tresidder amongst the tries. Derby had 7 players in this NLD U16s side: Tom Summerscales, Sam Tresidder, Rory Lynn, Jim Wigglesworth, Max Argyle, Joshua Pearson and Reece Dallimore.

The final NLD U16 game is at Mansfield
on Tuesday 25th November against Leicestershire kick off 7.30pm.

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18th Nov'08 - Known Minis & Juniors results for Sunday 16th Nov'08: Burton U12s 'A' 07 - 07 Derby U12s 'A', Nuneaton U13s 12 - 21 Derby U13s, Chesterfield U14s 21 - 20 Derby U14s Tigers, Nuneaton U15s 05 - 28 Derby U15s Tigers, Newark U17s 00 - 50 Derby U17s.

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14th Nov'08 - On Monday 10th November NLD U16s lost by 8 points to 3 against Warwickshire played under the lights at Mansfield. The only NLD points came from a penalty by Derby's No. 10 Rory Lynn. Derby were represented by Tom Summerscales, Max Argyle, Ed Wesson, Sam Tresidder ,Rory Lynn and Reece Dallimore.

The NLD U16s next play this Sunday, 16th November, against East Midlands at Ledbury in a 'Super Sunday' event. The team includes the same Derby lads as above and also Jim Wigglesworth and Josh Pearson. Unfortunately Ed Wesson will miss the game after picking up a hamstring injury.

The Derbyshire U16s have a game against Lincolnshire U16s on Sunday 23rd Nov at Sleaford, kickoff is 2.15pm. Here's a list of all players (M/Soft Word doc) in the squad. If any player listed is unavailable to play please contact Team Manager Kath Bates.

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9th Nov'08 - Some Photographs from today's U9s v Melbourne U9s, U10s v Melbourne U10s, U11s Training Game, U12s 'B' v Melbourne U12s 'B'

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3rd Nov'08 - Congratulations to Ryan Holmes, Derby RFC U17s player, on being part of the winning NLD U18s squad. Ryan played all 3 championship games, at lock, starting in every game and was the only Derbyshire representative in the penultimate and final games. The NLD won the Midlands Championship 13 - 07 against North Midlands on the 2nd November at Broadstreet RFC; this is the first time the NLD have won this championship. Thanks to Adrian Holmes for the photo's.

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2nd Nov'08 - Derby's U15s are holding an "Italy Tour" Fundraising Ball on 7th November, with any monies raised used to subsidise the cost of the tour for the Lads.

At the Ball there will be an auction with some excellent "lots". Among the items to be auctioned are a limited edition signed, framed photograph of Martin Johnson holding the World Cup and also a Northampton Saints shirt signed by Carlos Spencer (see pics right).

In an attempt to maximise the fundraising efforts the U15s are opening up bids for these two items to the entire club. Should anyone be interested in placing a bid, please email Glenn at gmartin323@fsmail.net attaching your bid and contact details.

Glenn will carry forward the highest bid for each item to the Auction on the 7th and should they remain the highest Glenn will inform you after the event. Good Luck and Thank you. Glenn Martin - Coach U15s.

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30th Oct'08 - The NLD U16s are playing Warwickshire U16s at Syston Rugby Club kickoff 3pm on Sunday 2nd November 2008 as part of an U16 County 'Super Sunday' with two other games being played on the same day. Derby U16s have 7 players in the Team (out of 22), the Derby players are: Sam Tresidder, Rory Lynn, Max Argyle, Tom Summerscales, Reece Dallimore, Ed Wesson and Jim Wigglesworth.

On the 22nd October the NLD U16s
with 5 Derby players (Sam Tresidder, Rory Lynn, Max Argyle, Tom Summerscales, Reece Dallimore) beat Staffordshire 39 - 05 at Burton with Sam Tresidder scoring 2 tries.

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19th Oct'08: Known results for today's Juniors fixtures are: Derby U14s Tigers 35 - 15 Kesteven U14s, Derby U16s 26 - 00 Burton U16s, Paviors U17s 19 - 41 Derby U17s.

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15th Oct'08 - Reports in for last Sunday's fixtures (12th Oct) includes the U10s at the Sandal Festival as well as the U14s Tigers and Stags and the U17s v Matlock.

Congratulations to 10 of our Derby RFC U16s who have been selected for the Derbyshire U16s squad, they are: Rob Beeston, Steve Borondy, Tom Cornfield, Aaron Finnegan, Tom Memmory, Ben Palmer, Ananth Shrinivasen, Sam Stafford, Callan Watson and Max Zammitt. The Head coach is Glyn Castledine, the Forwards Coach is Paul Fish, the Backs coach is Doug Carr and the Manager/Coach is Kath Bates.

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25th Sep'08 - There will be an evening of Electro-Acoustic music on Sunday 26th Oct'08 from 7:30pm featuring Andy White and Damon Downs. It's a Ticket only event priced at £5 available from Sean Allkins on 07950 399944. This Gig is in aid of the Under 16s tour. See Club News entry dated 25th Sep'08 for more information.

Don't forget that there's a Gig Night on the 17th October featuring local band Sydewynder, see the Social Events page for details.

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24th Sep'08 - Congratulations to 19 of Derby's U15s squad who have been selected to play for the U15s Derbyshire County side. They are: Ben Brown, Ben Wilkinson, Bobby Carr, Bradley Hopkins, CJ Woodason, Casey Watson, Charles Percival, Finlay Holland, George Campbell, Jack Coombs, James Heading, Jacob Roome, Jared Parkinson, Josh McCallion, Lewis Madeley, Luke Frixou, Richard Bosworth, Tom Richardson and Kyle Yeomans.

Match Reports and Photo's from last Sunday's fixtures are now on the website: U14s v Keyworth and U16s v Keyworth.

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17th Sep'08 - Congratulations to seven of our U14s players who following the Derbyshire U14s County Squad Trials have been selected into the U14s County Training Squad. The players are: Tom Antrobus, Marcus Axelson, Myles Costello, Adrian Hex, Tom Kent, Will Skeates and Nick Wesson.

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10th Sep'08 - There's a Band Night on the 17th Oct'08 at 8pm at Haslams featuring local band Sydewynder who play classic rock tracks (Thin Lizzy, Who, Lynard Skynard etc etc). If you've never seen them before, they're well worth a night out. It's a Ticket only event priced at £5 available from John McNeilly on 07771 630629. This Gig is in aid of the Under 16s tour.

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8th Sep'08 - Derby U16s players Shane Purcell, Tom Summerscales, Rory Lynn and Sam Tresidder are all in the Leicester Tigers EPDG U16s and were selected to play in a tournament for Leicester Tigers on Sunday 31st August at Oval Park in Leicester against Newport Gwent Dragons(drew), Leeds Carnegie (lost), Northampton Saints (won) and Newcastle Falcons (won).

Shane Purcell, Tom Summerscales, Rory Lynn and Sam Tresidder

Unfortunately, Sam Tresidder was injured in the warm-up and could not take part but the other lads gave an excellent account of themselves against strong opposition despite the dreadful conditions and there were no doubt some future International stars on show (hopefully 4 from Derby ! ).

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1st Sep'09 - Minis & Juniors Training on Sunday 7th Sep'08 will be from 9.30am to 11.30am to accommodate Rugby League National Finals games which will take place in the afternoon.

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31st Aug'08 - Minis & Juniors 2008/09 Parents Packs are now available within the Minis & Juniors Forms & Documents page.

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4th Aug'08 - Wild Park Leisure Paintballing Special Offer 13th & 20th August'08 (9am - 4pm) £25 including 300 Balls or £40 including 600 Balls. Both packages include all equipment and Complimentary Sausage and Mash. To book or for further information please contact Wild Park Leisure on 01335 360485.

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13th Jul'08 - Fixtures for both Minis and Juniors for the 2008/09 season are now on the website.

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8th Jul'08 - Opro Mouthguards will be at the Club on Sunday 14th Sept'08 to take gum shield impressions - for more information visit the Opro website.

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6th Jul'08 - As we get ready for the 2008/09 season here's a quick recap of the very successful 2007/08 season that our Mini & Junior section has had .........

U7s

NLD Shield Winners.

U9s

Derby Minis Festival Plate Winners, Gullivers Tournament Plate Finalists, Gullivers Tournament Plate Winners.

U10s

Derby Minis Festival Plate Winners.

U11s

Derby Minis Festival Cup Winners, Gullivers Tournament Plate Finalists, Gullivers Plate Runners Up.

U12s

Derby Mini Festival Cup Winners, NLD Cup Winners.

U13s

Lexus Regional XII's Runners Up, NLD Semi finalists, NLD XV's Cup Winners, NLD VII's Cup Winners.

U14s

Lexus Regional XII's Runners Up, NLD Semi finalists, NLD XV's Cup Runner Up, NLD VII's Cup Winners, Newbury X's Runners Up.

U15s

Lexus Regional XII's winners, NLD Semi finalists, NLD XV's Cup Winners, NLD VII's Cup Winners.

U15s Dev

NLD Semi finalists, NLD VII's Plate winners.

U16s

Lexus Regional XII's winners.

U17s

National Shield Winners.

The match reports for last season can be found within the Minis & Juniors Archives section

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29th Jun'08 - Three Derby RFC U16s players have been included in the Leicester Tigers U16s EPDG Squad  (Elite Player Development Group) in a Rugby Tournament taking place on the 31st August'08 at Oval Park in Leicester, they are: Sam Tresidder, Rory Lynn and Tom Summerscales.

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26th Jun'08 - Tonight at 7:30pm at the Club is the Minis & Juniors section AGM.

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8th Jun'08 - Derby RFC Minis & Juniors 2007/08 end of season Presentation Day took place today at the Club, here's the Presentation Day Photographs. As soon as I have an upto date list of recipients I'll post it onto the website.

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5th Jun'08 - RFU Grand Prize Draw Winners 2007/08 - details of Winners can be found on the RFU website www.rfu.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/RFUHome.News_Detail/StoryID/20024

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4th Jun'08 - Photograph Ordering on the Derby RFC website - Buy 2 and get 1 Photograph Free when ordering from the e4creative Photo Galleries displayed on the Derby RFC website. Please see the website online Photograph Ordering form for more information.

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1st Jun'08 - Three Coaches setoff for Twickenham at 6am (hic) yesterday morning with Derby's U9s, U11s and Supporters on them, the destination was Twickenham for the Gullivers Finals Day.

In the Gullivers Final our U9s won by 1 Try to Nil against Braintree and our U11s lost by 2 Tries to Nil against Salisbury. To reach Twickenham both sides had got through the Qualifying tournament at the Gullivers Festival in Nottingham earlier this year. As a Club Derby RFC have been very privileged to have had Teams reach the Twickenham Finals day for the past 5 years, it's not everyone that can say they've played at Twickenham. Well done to both of our young sides this year, I'm sure that it will be a day that they will remember for a very long time.

Once the Gullivers Finals had been played out we all sat back to take in and watch the Guiness Premiership Final between London Wasps and Leicester Tigers unfold in front of over 81,000 supporters inside Twickenham - awesome !

Here's the Photograph Galleries of our U9s at Twickenham, our U11s at Twickenham and also of the London Wasps v Leicester Tigers match.

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30th May'08 - Derby's U9s and U11s are off to Twickenham tomorrow (Sat 31st May) to contest in the Gullivers Plate Finals.

The Minis & Juniors Presentation Day will take place at the Club on Sunday 8th June. The Minis Presentation will run from 10am to 11:30am and the Juniors from 11:45am to 1:45pm. If the weather is fine it is planned to hold the Presentations outside. As it's a family occasion there are also plans to have a BBQ, Bouncy Castle, Treasure Hunt and Raffle.

The Minis & Juniors AGM will take place at the Club on the 26th June'08 at 7:30pm. Here's the agenda for the AGM (Microsoft Word doc).

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14th May'08 - Congratulations to Derby's U13s, U14s and U15s who all won their respective NLD 7s tournaments last Sunday. Derby U15s entered 2 teams with the second team beating Nottingham in the Plate Final. Read the U13s tournament report and the U14s tournament report.

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8th May'08 - Derby's U14s were Runners Up in the Newbury 10s Festival last Sunday in a tight final game against Bristol St Mary's. Here's the report & photos from the Festival.

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4th May'08 - Congratulations to Derby's U17s who won the U17s National Shield final today against Bracknell hosted at Worcester RFC. Derby were trailing 07 - 14 but brought the game back to 14 - 14. This is how the game ended but on a 'Try Count back' it was Derby's two Tries to Bracknell's one that gave Derby's U17s the win. Here's the Match Report and Photographs from the game.

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1st May'08 - Digital copies of e4creative action Photographs - following recent enquiries digital copies of action photographs are now available. All digital photos will be sent on a CD. So far the Galleries that have the action photo Digital option are the Derby Minis Festival 2008 (13th Apr'08) and the NLD Cup Finals Day (27th Apr'08) both of which are on the e4creative website. All other e4creative galleries featured within the Derby RFC website can be found here.

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28th Apr'08 - At yesterdays NLD Finals Day at Market Rasen Derby RFC had 3 sides competing, our U13s, U14s and U15s. Our U13s and U15s won their Finals whilst our U14s finished as Runners Up following their game with Nottingham. With just 7 minutes remaining our U14s were leading 07 - 06 but a penalty was awarded to Nottingham which they kicked to make the final result 07 - 09 to Nottingham. Here's all 3 NLD Final match reports: U13s Derby v Paviors, U14s Derby v Nottingham and U15s Derby v Kesteven. All 3 reports include a selection of photographs as well links to the full Photograph Galleries.

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23rd Apr'08 - A change of venue for the Colts v Buxton Derbyshire Cup Final on Sunday 27th April, this was to be held at Belper RFC but this has now been changed to it being hosted at Chesterfield RFC, kickoff is 11.30am. See the Club News entry dated 23rd Apr'08 for a list of of forthcoming club competitions / activities as there's quite a few happening over the next few weeks.

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20th Apr'08 - Derby's U17s are through to the National U17s Final after beating Keswick 32 - 10 in today's Semi Final. The Final is due to be played in Worcester in early May, we're waiting for the exact date and who the opponents will be. Here's the match report from today's game.

Congratulations to Derby's U7s who won the Shield at today's NLD Minis Festival held at Nottingham.

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15th Apr'08 - The Derby RFC Minis Festival 2008 took place on Sunday 13th April.  Photograph Galleries from the Under 7s, Under 8s, Under 9s, Under 10s, Under 11s, Under 12s and the Presentations can all be viewed on the e4creative website at www.e4creative.co.uk

Results at the Festival were:

 

Under 7s

Under 8s

Under 9s

Under 10s

Under 11s

Under 12s

Cup

Newcastle

Banbury

Hinckley/Newark

Banbury

Derby Tigers

Derby Wasps

Plate

Newark

Melbourne

Derby Tigers

Hinckley / Derby Chargers

Leicester Vipers

Kettering

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5th Apr'08 - Due to the Seniors NLD Finals Day being hosted at Derby RFC tomorrow (Sunday 6th April) the scheduled Minis & Juniors fixtures have all been rearranged to take place at other locations within Derby. See the Minis Fixtures and Juniors Fixtures for latest updates.

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