Cambridge Rugby Union

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Dear Members and Supporters
Welcome to Old Elthamians for their first visit to
Cambridge. We struggled to a draw in atrocious
conditions for the first match, so lets hope today
that we can improve on that.
Grateful thanks to todays sponsors, Agrii,
Enterprise Property Group and Syngenta, without
whom we would be financially drained. It is good
to see their continued support is being rewarded
by the current good results.
Thank you also to all the volunteers, staff,
players, match officials, coaching staff and
committee. Hopefully we should soon know who is
to be our next Director of Rugby.
Two weeks ago at Clifton we had a tough game
in also atrocious conditions, playing most of the
game with a man down after Mike Ayrton was red
carded.
It was a little bit of handbags and he was
penalised with a one week suspension, so
hopefully a lesson on retaliation has been learnt.
This was the first time Mike has been carded
(either colour) in over 100 games. Last week we
returned to Taunton to play the cancelled game.
Another hard game in much improved conditions
which we just won. Both those games are the first
time we have won at Clifton and Taunton – so well
done boys.
Congratulations to James Stokes and Brett Daynes
for being selected for England Counties last week
and playing alongside at least 3 of our ex-players.
Thank you also to Dennis E. for donating his 200
Club winnings to the first team beer kitty. I made
sure that this was used at Taunton and the boys
would like to thank Dennis for his kind generosity.
When we played Clifton, the 2nds also went with
us and won convincingly, and the Exiles beat Ely
that day too. Last week the Exiles beat Cantabs in
the cup – so well done team.
In March we have just one home game and one
away and then in April we have 3 home and 2 away,
so we have a very busy final month of the season,
with the Mini festival too.
After spending the last 2 Saturdays on the bus
for seemingly 6hrs each way, it is impressive from
an outsider of the squad to witness the good
behaviour of the team and the committment and
professionalism of the management – so thank you
Rowland, Tracey, Ian, Philip, Declan, Dan and Paris.
Lets hope today that we have a good game,
respect the match officials and continue the
winning run.
Alan Banks
President
Meet the Committee
Alan Banks
President
Rowland Winter
Director of Rugby
Rob Dean
Head of Marketing
Malcolm Watson
Chairman
Steve Bowller
President Elect
Adrian Fraser
Head of Communications
Adrian Carpenter
Secretary
Gordon Newbound
Head of Estates
Ross Jenyon
Committee Member
Jimmy Dore
Treasurer