Loughborough Sport Men’s Rugby Programme 28th January 2023

RUGBY

RHYS EDWARDS

DIRECTOR OF RUGBY

Welcome all to Loughborough University, where today we host Newport (Salop).

Welcome to all players and officials from the club, in what we hope will be another great game of National League Rugby. Our previous encounter this year was our first fixture, and we are excited to welcome them to campus for the first time.

Last week proved to be a rest week for the group, with the away game against Hinckley being a victim of the frost. The BSR group had a fixture against England U20s on Campus, so attention turned to support the group in preparation for their fixture last night against Nottingham University.

Today’s guests have come into the new National 2 West league, and a first for Loughborough to play against each other. This is a competitive league now and many results aren’t a foregone conclusion, with our away fixture a prime example. It was a high scoring game and a lastminute score being the decisive outcome.

Good luck to everyone this weekend playing, in particular our Lightning team who play Worcester Warriors away.

Thanks again for supporting the squad today, it’s been great to see familiar faces every week.

All the best to everyone today!

Rhys Director of Rugby

*Any further information regarding membership, please contact rugby@lboro.ac.uk for more information.

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS RFC VS

HORNETS

MATCH REPORT

MATCH DAY:SATURDAY 14/01/2023

FULL TIME: LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS

RFC 24-17 HORNETS

AWAY TEAM (HORNETS)

TRIES: Pen try 17, Balkham 76, Chenoweth 80

CONVERSIONS:

HOME TEAM (LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS RFC)

TRIES: Sanders 32, Bell 39, Bertinet 45

CONVERSIONS: Malone 33, 40, 46, Pen 67

HALFTIME: LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS RFC 14-7 HORNETS

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS: Martin, Sanders, Hawkins, Preen, Cadogan, Malone, Smith, Bell, Bertinet, Shine, Pichardie, Jennings, Pill, Dick

REPLACEMENTS: Nixon, Westmacott, Agbongbon, Naylor, Meredith

HORNETS: Carter, James, Dempsey, Vickery, Gliddon, Heal, Dorrington, Chase, Lane, Lloyd, Harris, Bailey, Browne, Davis, Parker

REPLACEMENTS: Francis, Caulfield, Chenoweth, Elswood, Balkham

Students secure 4pts on home soil

With a strong breeze but no rain, it was set to be an entertaining afternoon with rugby, as two sides who like to move the ball locked horns in the form of Loughborough Students & Hornets RFC.

An early onslaught from Hornets at the setpiece saw them take an early lead through a penalty try at the scrum, also warranting Loughborough prop Seb Smith a yellow card, before the Students asserted their dominance through a smart kicking game orchestrated by Reece Malone and Dan Martin. This led to good field position and 2 late first half scores giving them a 14-7 lead at the half way mark.

With pressure on the Loughborough set piece; number 8 Fergus Dick did well to control things

at the base base, helping steer the Students to another score early in the second half from Jack Bertinet, after a fantastic line break from Nic Jennings. With their lead extended to 14, a successful penalty from the students fly half gave them a comfortable margin heading into the final quarter of an hour.

Whilst the students would’ve been keen to source a try bonus point, momentum swung back in the visitors direction, with a late pair of tries from Hornets drew things closer, but the students proved too strong and good value on the day to take the spoils 24-17.

After letting a 14 point lead slip at the death in the local derby with Hinckley earlier in the season, the students will look to make amends next weekend when they visit their familiar friends down the road.

By Marta Gomez

MAN OF THE MATCH- FERGUS DICK

MEET THE TEAM

CHRIS PREEN

RUGBY HERO: CHRIS ROBSHAW

DOB: 12/09/2002

NATIONALITY: ENGLISH

HOBBIES: WATER SPORTS & TENNIS

STUDYING: SPORT MANAGEMENT

RUGBY AMBITION: PLAY PROFESSIONALLY IN THE PREM

POSITION: CENTRE

TODAYS OPPOSITION NEWPORT

Newport RUFC is an English rugby team based at the Old Showground, just outside the town of Newport, Shropshire. Newport were promoted from Level 5 into the National League 2 West for this season, and now sit at twelfth in the table. The Students came out on top at the Old Showground earlier in the season, so will be looking to do the double here at Epinal Way today.

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS RFC 1XV FIXTURES 2022/23

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS RFC STAFF

RHYS EDWARDS Director of Rugby

ANTHONY ALLEN Performance Coach

ALEX WHITE National 2 Head Coach

MARTIN WEBDALE Head Coach

KATIE THRIFT Rugby Operations

JAMES PETERS Development Head Coach

JAMES GALLAGHER Rugby Programme Manager

RICHARD BLAZE Performance Coach

EMILY BURNS Team Manager

JORDAN HARRIS Lead Physio

BLAKE BURNS S&C Volunteer

IZZY WELLINGS Media&Marketing

MATT COOKE S&C Volunteer

HENRY DUNFORD PA Placement

AMIE GRAY PA Placement

MARTA GOMEZ SANTOS Media & Marketing Lead

JOANNE MADDEN-MCKEE S&C Volunteer

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS RFC A BRIEF HISTORY

1984

Rex Hazeldine is appointed as Head Coach leading the side to a UAU title and victory in the Leicestershire Cup. A touring Australian Universities side was also defeated.

1976

1919

Loughborough College formed the original Rugby Union side in September 1919.

1930

Loughborough Colleges competed in their first Universities Athletic Union competition, beating Nottingham University 8-0 in their first match.

1939

Loughborough Colleges reached the UAU final for the first time,losing narrowly to Swansea.

1953

Loughborough Colleges won the UAU for the first time.

1962-68

These were spectacular years for Loughborough, winning every UAU title except 1965. Gerald Davies, John Mantle, Dave Rollit, John Taylor, Bev Risman and Colin MacFadyean, became world class players. John Robins became the first British and Irish Lions coach.

Middlesex 7s winners: 1959, 1964 1966, 1970 and 1976.

1996

Loughborough enter the leagues at the bottom of the RFU pyramid.

The Student’s Unions of the University of Technology and the Loughborough Colleges merged and the Loughborough Students Rugby Club was formed. The team won the UAU in 1977, 1978 and 1979, with the 1978–79 side captained by the young centre Clive Woodward.

1970

The legendary Jim Greenwood coaches the Colleges to victory in the Middlesex Sevens, and the first UAU final at Twickenham. This side was probably the strongest ever, with six future internationals, Louis Dick, David Cooke, Clive Rees, Fran Cotton, Steve Smith, and Dick Cowman.

1997

Loughborough wins over Cambridge and Oxford in consecutive weeks signals the changing balance of power in student rugby.

1998

Ian Smith is appointed as the first full-time Director of Rugby.

2003

The World Cup winning England team was coached by six Loughborough alumni: Clive Woodward, Dave Alred, Andy Robinson, Dave Reddin, Phil Larder and Simon Hardy.

2005

Winning BUCS in 2005 breaks our longest spell without a BUCS victory.

2006

Real Varsity Match v Bath. Floodlights Appeal provides campus venue for the first ever rugby ‘event’ and engages alumni leading to the Vice Presidents club. A 3000+ crowd watched Loughborough beat Bath.

2008

Director of Rugby Dave Morris leads the side to promotion into National League 2 North, making the team the first student side to take part in the National Leagues.

2009

The Dan James Memorial Match Loughborough 23 – 20 England U20 A magnificent achievement for Dave Morris’ team and a suitably characterful performance through which to remember Dan.

2012

Loughborough v The Barbarians. A huge match to mark the opening of the Loughborough Stadium. Andy Robinson’s Barbarian side win 40– 7. Loughborough promoted into National League 1.

2016

Fiji win the first Olympic 7s competition coached by Loughborough alumni Ben Ryan, defeating Team GB in the process and fellow Loughborough alumni Phil Burgess.

2017

Loughborough Lightning enter the Tyrrells Premier 15s league.