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Breaking Fixture News
For games on:- 13th & 14th February
* Seniors Only As per fixture list
* Juniors As per fixture list
* Minis As per fixture list
Training (all at Moss Farm)
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Seniors
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Tuesday & Thursday evenings
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6.30pm (Tuesdays from July 8th)
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Minis, Juniors & Colts
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Sunday
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10.30am-12pm Unless there are fixtures. See junior page or individual team pages for details.
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Mini/Juniors
U15’s
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Wednesday
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6.30-8pm Mixed Age groups
* U15’s will start summer training on 22nd July 7-8.30pm
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Women’s
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Tuesday
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7-8.45pm Also see Womens site
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Colts & U12’s
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Thursday
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6.30-8pm
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Girls (U15 & U18’s)
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Wednesday 7th October
Sunday
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Moss Farm 6.30-8pm
2pm @ Sandbach or Moss Farm. See also Girls site
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Contact your coaches for more information or check the relevant senior or junior team pages. New club fees are given in the ‘About the club’ page.
Got something that you’d like on the web site? Pictures, story, useful link? Then please email it to 4ourwebsite@northwichrufc.co.uk
For other other local rugby results and other sports try :-
RFU North Club Results & News for Northern England - RFUNorth
Northwich Guardian - Northwich Guardian Rugby page
Northwich Chronicle - Northwich Chronicle Rugby page |
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Conversionzone- Save your money and help the club!
In recognition of the tough times we are all facing the club have recently set up a dedicated fund raising committee. This new committee will work to improve and co-ordinate all the club fund raising activities and bring in new initiatives to increase the club’s income. The first initiative is being run in conjunction with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and is called “conversionzone”. The RFU have teamed up with USwitch to help you easily ‘convert’ your energy supplier, insurance or bank over the web. The difference now is at the same time as you save lots of your hard earned cash, the club also benefits. All you have to do is visit the USwitch web site at www. uswitch.com/rfu, choose ‘Northwich RFC’ from the list of clubs and then click ‘Set up the club’ and then you can chose what service/product you want to switch. USwitch then helps you compare different services with your existing ones and makes switching easy when you are sure its right for you.
Not just Energy savings!
With recent improvements to the NPower ‘Sign Online 17’ and British Gas ‘WebSaver 5’ tariffs, there could be huge savings out there for you. But conversionzone is not limited to energy saving and can be used for all types of switches including car and house insurance, telephone and broadband. So please take a minute or two to compare prices with your current suppliers and help us to earn money for the club. Please note that this is not limited to club members, everyone can use this facility so please tell all your friends and they can help the club too. Thanks for your support.
If you have any questions or suggestions for fund raising ideas please email Bryan (BJ) Johnson - bjohnson@northwichrufc.co.uk or Natalie Wilson nwilson@northwichrufc.co.uk from the fund raising committee.
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U11’s proudly display kit from new sponsors
Northwich RUFC under 11s (pictured) proudly show off their new home and away kits generously donated by the Clinical Trial Company. Despite match results not going their way the boys and one girl have had a flourishing season of midi Rugby.
The squad have also enjoyed wider opportunities varying from Sale Sharks Rugby Camps and a trip to watch the professionals in action at Edgeley Park, a highly successful Try Rugby Day hosted by the Northwich Club in October and even a day on the slopes doing mountain boarding. To round the season off the squad will tour which will see them ply their skills against national and international opposition.
Northwich RUFC has a thriving mini and junior rugby section which caters for boys and girls from 6 through to 18 years old. Home matches are played at Moss Farm on a Sunday morning against other teams from Cheshire, Wales and Lancashire. The matches are supplemented with indoor or outdoor training during the week with the emphasis on structured development of the game and enjoyment.
For more information on joining the club visit www.northwichrufc.co.uk or contact either Ian igrassby@northwichrufc.co.uk
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Meet Dodo
Bogdan (Dodo) Muntean was appointed 1st team player-coach in August 2009 after coming to the UK with his wife Christina. Living now at the Greenbank Hotel, Dodo has an illustrious career with Romanian club sides Steaua Bucarest, Dinamo Bucarest and more recently Farala Constanta. Constanta are located on the Black Sea. These sides are the only three professional Romanian teams and, invariably they provide the main players at international level. Dodo has been on the fringes of the international side for 10 seasons, appearing in for his country against New Zealand A side and Italy, both at his favoured fly-half position. Dodo played at all age levels for his country and was employed as an administrative controller in his countries' police force for 7 years. At club level Dodo has playing experience in the Heinekin Cup in Wales and England
Dodo is keen to focus upon his coaching role and has impressed his colleagues with a mixture of enthusiasm, experience and a wealth of new moves.
With his official UK work permit now being processed, Dodo hopes to develop his coaching skills with local Mid-Cheshire schools and on RFU assignments. He has become more respected by his team colleagues, the longer that they work on his fitness and technical programmes. Dodo is a also a strong supporter of the junior section and particularly the junior and senior colts sides
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Tag Tournament - Sunday 6th September
Chris Jones - Community Rugby officer - has arranged to run a Tag tournament for junior & mini teams on Sunday 6th September between 1 and 3pm. Teams of 10 can apply direct to Chris before 4th September and must be mixed with at least one girl to be on the field of play at any time. All tags, balls etc will be provided just contact Chris with any questions and details of your team. Chris is on Tel 07872 827159 - email cjones@northwichrufc.co.uk
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New Rugby Academy at Mid Cheshire College
Northwich Rugby Club have formed a groundbreaking partnership with Mid Cheshire college to create a Rugby Union academy. This will be the first academy of its type in the area and will combine the strengthens and resources of Mid Cheshire College and Northwich RUFC to give young people studying at the college a unique opportunity to enhance their rugby talent. The first applicants will be enrolled in September 2009, so start applying now if you want a place. For more information about the academy either download this flyer by clicking here - flyer, or visit the Mid Cheshire college web site for a full prospectus at Mid Cheshire College Sports
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More coaches get Level I
Congratulations to a new group of Northwich junior coaches who have just successfully passed the RFU Level I coaching course. Pictured left to right are Karen Gooch (Under 8’s) Dave Cole (Under 11’s) Ian Grassby (Under 11’s) Jon Kennedy (Under 14’s) and Nigel Waterhouse (Under 9’s).
Well done everyone, see you at training at the start of the new season on September 6th.
July 2009
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Safeguarding Young People in Rugby Union
The club has organised a Safeguarding Young people in Rugby Union course to take place at the club on Monday 14th December between 6.15 - 9.00 pm. It is essential that all junior coaches and volunteers involved with the club who haven’t attended this type of course (child protection) for 3 years, must attend. The RFU now require that at least two coaches at each age group have attended this type of course. As we will be resubmitting our accreditation this autumn can all coaches please make sure that they attend. Please complete the application form and send it to Alexis Holding email alexisholding@rfu.com as soon as possible. As always all Northwich RUFC coaches can reclaim the cost of the course which is £15.
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Northwich in partnership with Greenbank Hotel
In an innovative partnership to provide a base for visiting international players, Northwich Rugby club have agreed a 5 year contract to rent the third floor of the Greenbank Hotel on Chester Road, Northwich. As part of the agreement the club will refurbish 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a common room/lounge which the club hope, will become the natural home for visiting players during the next few seasons. Thanks to a new kitchen from Howdens Joinery in Winsford (http://www.howdens.com/), the refurbishment is proceeding at full pace so anyone who has any spare furniture they would like to donate, or would be prepared to help with decorating or plumbing, please contact Colin Johnson on 07831 785972.
Greenbank Hotel Tel: 01606 783132 June 2008
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International Player Exchange
Thanks to the successful impact on the club of overseas players like Stacey Hoskin and David Khaniyle, Northwich would like to invite interested players to approach the club for next season. The club is interested in any player that would be comfortable playing in the North 2 West league or higher and is happy to spend the winter here in the England. In return the club are eager to continue to foster relationships with clubs in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand so that young Northwich players can get the opportunity to play and travel safely to those countries to develop their playing career and to compliment their education and/or employment. New web pages (see below) have been added to the web site to help provide information for interested players. Please feel free to contact Colin Johnson at the club if you need more information. His details and more are on the following page :- International Player Exchange - link
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Collecting Tesco Vouchers
We are registered again with the Tesco web site and have started to collect vouchers for this seasons sports promotion. Last year we were able to get some new balls and although that doesn’t seem very much it all helps us to stretch our meagre resources. We know that you may be already collecting them for schools but please find some spare ones for the club. The collection box is in the club shop. For more details about the promotion click on www.tesco.com/sport/
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Club members set up ‘Sportsmates Reunited’ web site
Three locals who come from a rugby, rowing & martial arts background have recently set up a new web site to help reunite old friends who’ve played sports together. After wanting to get in contact with old friends who’d they’d lost contact with and frustrated with the existing web sites on offer, they thought about creating a new website. Specifically sports-based Sportsmates Reunited works like the well established Friends Reunited sites but specialising in sports like Rugby with all UK clubs listed. To find out more here is the link. www.sportsmatesreunited.co.uk
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Sale Sharks - special prices on tickets
Last season we were able to get 40 free shirts as part of the Sale Sharks ‘kit back’ scheme. Sale will continue to offer the scheme this year. We get points for all Sale Sharks home match tickets purchased through the club, plus there are now new special family tickets. Please contact Dave Jefford email: djefford @northwichrufc.co.uk to book tickets for any of the Sale matches. More details of the status of the kitback scheme are also on our new page at Kit back. See the Sharks site for details of the next home game or go to the new Premiership web site for more information on the league, clubs and players. www.guinesspremiership.com
Matches looming up over the next few months include :-
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More Sponsors for 2009-10
The club would like to thank a number of sponsors for their support in the 2008-9 Season and welcome further new sponsors to assist with the cost of running the club for the forthcoming 2009-10 season.
If you or someone you know, would be interested in helping with a team strip, raffle prizes, equipment or with a team tour please contact Colin Johnson at 07831 785972 or email cjohnson @northwichrufc.co.uk and also view the new sponsor pages.
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