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Hinckley 7s Tournament has now be confirmed by the RFU.

The tournament will be open to men’s clubs level 5 and below from around the country and to any women’s club – 12 players maximum per team. There will be no invitational sides.
After the group stages the tournament will progress to a knockout competition, with the finals being held just after 5:00pm.

Teams should be at the club and registered by 10:00am ready for the first games to kick off at 10:30. Matches will be played over 3 pitches. Sevens rules apply, 7 minutes each way. Teams will have at least 20 minutes to rest between games.

This year the prize fund will be:

• Cup Winners – £800.00
• Ladies Winners – £200.00
• Cup Runners Up – £200.00
• Ladies Runners up – £100.00
• Plate Winners – £100.00
• Plate Runners Up – £50.00

In both the Cup and Plate competitions, the winning team will also receive a trophy.

There will also be the usual sevens tournament entertainment plus a special prize of £100 and £50 for the men’s and women’s 100m sprint. The Club is also hosting a Real Ale Festival on this weekend, so for the beer connoisseur there should be plenty to choose from. A good family day out is the end game with some excellent rugby entertainment. Bouncy castles and slides will be available as well as the usual beer, food and big screen TV entertainment. For the avid party animals a fancy dress party, disco, camping facilities and late bar will all be available!

For more details call Dom Holmes on 07974 948093 or to book your club’s place return the slip attached with a cheque made payable to Hinckley Rugby Football Club Ltd to the address at the bottom of the page. The entry fee is £150 for a men’s team and £75 for a women’s team with £50 being returned in beer tokens at the end of the tournament for the men and £25 for the ladies. Places will be limited and will be reserved on a 1st paid basis.

Hinckley shot themselves in the foot with a performance in the 1st 10 mins which left them 15 points down and too much to do in the next 70 mins. Poor organisation with players turning up at 1.50pm for a 2.15pm KO did not help matters nor did the majority of the coaching staff being away on the day.

Although Hinckley’s lineout did not function all day, Hinckley mange to regain some composure and put some good passages of play together but the damage was done. Next week again Hereford becomes a key game. One where we need to draw a line in the sand – where consistency resulting in a win rather than patches of good and bad resulting in a loss is the order of the day. We will see!

Colts Vs Derby away league game, meet at the club @ 11:45!

Team from:

Caddy

Boulton

Kavanagh

Rowan

Steptoe

Jones

Horwood

Nurse

Morris

Bradshaw

Knowles

Hilyer

Lally

Oakes

Davor

Bonnin-Ward

Hyde

Wilson

Oatridge

Thorpe

In a real rugby match dominated by defences Bromsgrove struck the telling blow with just 15 mins to go after some sustained pressure.  Hinckley had their chances to win the game, none more so than with a driving maul 5 metres out that was pulled down by the Bromsgrove forwards on the line for them to be awarded a scrum 5!! Interesting!  The man in green certainly did not adhere himself to anyone and his intrepretation of the breakdown allowing the ball to be sealed off and players to be off their feet was  interesting as was the fact that in the 1st half,  play continued with a Hinckley man down injured and in the second half the reverse certainly did not happen.

Anyway good luck to Bromsgove as they move forward in the season and little old Hinckley now look forward to going to Peterborough to play their rearranged fixture from December 19th 2009.

Colts Vs Lutterworth, home meet 13:00.

Team to be selected from:

S Boulton

J Kavanagh

A Caddy

J Rowan

B Jones

J Steptoe

W Sansome

T Morris

K Horwood

M Nurse

T Hilyer

A Lally

R Oakes

J Hyde

B Bonnin Bonnin

N Oatridge

C Thorpe

D Roberts

D Stojanov

League game, shirt and tie after the game please!!!

Sunday 24th January 2010
 
After 7 weeks weather enforced lay-off Hinckley Under 13s powered back to beat Old Coventarians by 31 points to 10 despite going a try down in the first minutes.
Welcoming back Freddie Tuilagi Junior on a visit from Samoa Sephton scored a well worked try to cancel out the visitors early lead and Letts and Spencer both scored characteristicic “Flying Tries” after Hinckleys forwards reasserted the dominance that was so evident in the first half of the season.With Nixon converting 2 of the tries Hinckley enjoyed a 19 points to 5 lead at half time.
Lack of concentration meant that Coventarians were able to strike back early in the second half with another unconverted try but the alarm bells rang, Hinckley picked their game up and the forwards ground down the opposition to allow Letts to show his superb speed and athleticism with 2 copybook tries after well handled backs movements left him clear. Bruce converted 1 try to make the final score a tribute to the sides ability.
Scorers:- Letts 3 tries, Sephton 1, Spencer 1. Nixon 2 Conversions Bruce 1. Hinckley U13s 31 Old Coventarians 10