A good crowd of gamblers attended the Supporters Club Race Night last Friday November 24th.

The evening raised just over

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Redruth U7′s 13-St Austell 0

Well done to the under 7′s who continue their unbeaten run this season, with an excellent display against a young St Austell team. The REDS not only attacked well but defended superbly, not letting St Austell score a single try! Congratulation this week to Declan Allan for scoring his first try for Redruth and to Jordan Sidwell for scoring his 50th try this season.
An excellent game boys, keep up the good work.
Tries this week Thomas B, William (3), Jordan S (4), Aaron (2), Declan, Jordan O (2)

Redruth U8′s 9 V St Austell U8′s 12

Despite an overall high spirited match, the Reds narrowly failed to clinch victory over St Austell. Equally matched sides saw the score at 6-7 at half time. The second half saw some lovely team work with excellent support, however the boys energetic display was over powered by the St Austell and their Pocket Rocket who increased their number of tries greatly! Fantastic footwork by Matthew Simmons saw him romp in with 3 tries. Well fought boys, keep it up!
Other try scorers this week – Liam (3), Jacca (2), Jack M.

Redruth 7&8′s 5 V St Austell 7&8′s 11

Our final match this week saw a disappointing defeat to a well drilled St Austell side. Redruth were encouraged by good runs from Bradley, Nile and Jay Jay. Improving team work was evident from the whole squad. Keep it up boys, practice at home to help continuing improvement.
Try scorers Nile, Jay Jay, Jordan S (2), Jacca

See you all on Sunday for training
Chris

Newquay Colts 0 Redruth Colts 44

Redruth Colts returned to local fixture following their success in the national cup last weekend with a convincing win in poor weather conditions at Newquay sports centre against a understrength Newquay team.

The Reds never looked in any bother as they scored 8 unanswered tries.

Redruth Scorers -

Tries-
James williams 2,
Josh Heath 2,
Ben Jenkins,
Tom Duncan,
Chevy Martin,
Ashley Hosking.

Conversions
Chevy Martin
Ashley Hosking.

This weekend the Colts have 3 matches. On Friday evening the Under17s take on Hayle away in the Cornwall Under17 merit table kick off 7.15.

Then on Saturday there is a double header with the return fixtures against Truro School. These are traditionally very close matches with the U18s drawing 8 points all earlier in the season, although the Under 17s ran out convincing winners against the School 2nd XV. Both of these matches Kick off at the Recreation Ground at 2.30pm.

Bill Sobey reports that Redruth’s in-form scrum-half Mark Richards believes his side are nearing a full recovery from their early season woes despite their recent defeat to Otley.The Reds battled hard, and could have won, against National Division Two’s second-placed side. But a strong second-half showing by the visitors from Yorkshire condemned the hosts to a 13-7 defeat.

However, the home side took consolation from a losing bonus point to add to the five they gained after an impressive victory against Stourbridge the preceding week. And Richards says they are well-equipped for a tough trip to top-of-the-table Manchester this weekend to complete a demanding period against the League’s high fliers.

He said: “We sat down two weeks ago looking at Stourbridge, Otley and Manchester – the top three in the League at the time. We knew then it was going to be a big spell for us.

“We knew we had to perform, and we knew that if we didn’t play well this month we’d fall behind fourth from bottom by a lot of points.

“We’ve got to keep the pressure on Wharfedale. But looking back five weeks ago up at Blaydon and now we’re putting in more of a performance.

“We’ve still got a lot more home games to play yet and Redruth is a very intimating place and a very difficult place to come and win. I think we’re nearly there now, there’s no panic stations here at the minute.”

Richards, however, has few complaints about the result against Otley last weekend, but he admits the visitors handled the tricky conditions better and performed better over the course of the match.

Richards said: “You can’t take anything away from Otley, they are a good side and one of the promotion favourites, but we stood up to be counted against them. The conditions levelled the platform and evened it out but to be honest they were the better side on the day.

“Their defence is well organised, and like against most teams in National Division Two, whatever we did, they were always there to knock us back. They obviously did their homework on us and we did the same on them which meant we cancelled each other out for most of the game.”

Redruth appeared to be in a favourable position at half-time, leading 7-3, after Richards’ try was converted by fly-half Gareth Griffiths in response to an earlier Otley penalty.

However, the visitors scored another penalty in the opening stages of the second half before being awarded a penalty try with just over ten minutes remaining.

The home side’s attempts to defend their lead were hindered by a yellow card given to flanker Nathan Pascoe for kicking the ball away in frustration after a decision from referee David Sainsbury midway through the second half.

Richards accepted the referee’s decision but admits it must have been a difficult one for the official. He said: “The penalty try was a big call from the referee. We defended well but to be fair, I think the result was a fair one and they deserved to win.”

The scrum-half also rejected the idea that the a lack of discipline had cost them the game and instead playfully suggested that opposing teams should take most of the blame for any flare-ups involving himself or his team-mates.

He said: “They keep targeting me that’s the problem. Why that is, I haven’t got a clue! But it’s one thing we always say as a team that we won’t take a backwards step so we all have to stick in with each other whether it’s right or wrong. We all have to stand by each other.”

Richards deservedly won the man-of-the-match award against Otley in his second consecutive game in place of the injured Dave Pascoe. Richards said the award was timely lift for him after a difficult period.

“I am pleased with the man-of-the-match award and the try to be honest because my confidence was running a little bit low,” he said. “I’ve got my shirt back. It was unfortunate for Dave Pascoe who broke his thumb but now that I’ve got the shirt I want to take the opportunity now and hopefully keep it.”

Redruth under 14s travelled to St Austell on a beautiful Sunday morning.

With a very depleted side, due to a lot of recent injuries, the Reds could only feild a 16 man squad.

The match started both teams looking quite strong it took a while for the Reds to settle but they eventually scored.St Austell came back strong and looked like they might score, but the Reds defence held and eventually the Reds broke back out of their half and scored again.

This seemed to be the turning point in the game, with the Redstaking control, the Saints looking occassionally dangerous.

Final score St Austell 0 / Redruth 41 an excellent Team performance.

Thank You to St Austell for a good match and superb hospitality. Simon Barbary

Redruth 65 St Austell 0

Redruth had a comfortable win on Sunday scoring eleven tries and five conversions against a St Austell side, who put in some good tackles but were outplayed by the home side. All twenty five players were used and they all played well with good debuts by Jack Oates and Ryan Mahoney, making it very difficult to pick a starting line up.

Tries were scored by Kieran Trewin(2),Sean Barrett(2),Jake Raiment, Jack Oates,Daniel Eathorne,Connor Prisk,Ben Hocking,Joe Mays and Bradley Waller, conversions by Sean Barrett and Ollie Bryant.

Once again thanks to Kevin Williams for refereeing

Nigel

Redruth coach Nigel Hambly conceded his team were beaten by the better side after a 13-7 National Division Two defeat to Otley at the Recreation Ground.

The Reds’ performance was far from vintage in difficult conditions against the second-placed Yorkshiremen, but the home side were in a with a chance right until the final whistle before being forced to settle for the losing bonus point.

And although Hambly admits it was a fair result, he says the level of disappointment and renewed expectation surrounding his side shows just how far they have come in recent weeks.

“Six weeks ago we wouldn’t have been too disappointed to get a point at home against Otley,” he said. “Today people are going home disappointed, but we’ve got to take it on the chin, we were beaten by the better team.

“You can’t take it away from them, they came here and they tried. Their endeavour and their spirit were phenomenal and they deserved to win. We could have snatched it at the end, but they put enough pressure on us to win the game today so I’ve got no complaints.”

Last weekend Hambly’s men succeeded in getting the basics right on their way to a bonus-point victory over high-flying Stourbridge, but unfortunately, the ball was often made to resemble a bar of soap in a dour first-half this weekend.

Redruth scrum-half Mark Richards, who played better than most, set up an early chance with a break from midfield but his pass to PJ Gidlow was fumbled by the charging centre. More sloppy handling, this time from fly-half Gareth Griffiths under a high ball, invited pressure from Otley which eventually led to a penalty to the visitors. Fortunately, the kick went wide off the boot of captain Ian Shuttleworth.

Shuttleworth made better use of a similar opportunity midway through the half and put his side in front. However, Richards replied with a try in the left corner – brilliantly converted by Griffith – after his side saw phase after phase fail to break through the Otley line just in front of their posts.

In truth, the gap Richards found was only made big enough for him to squeeze through by the absence of flanker Nathan Bland following his yellow card for foul play, but at least the momentum appeared to have swung back in favour of Redruth.

Signs were promising for Redruth at the beginning of the second half despite another penalty from Shuttleworth, but the impetus was given back to Otley when Nathan Pascoe was shown a yellow card for petulantly kicking the ball away after possession had been awarded to Otley by referee David Sainsbury.

The Reds battled bravely against the powerful Otley pack but a try appeared inevitable the longer the visitors spent probing the depleted home defence. In the 72nd minute the Yorkshiremen were awarded a penalty try, converted by Shuttleworth, which even Hambly agreed was the least they deserved for their perseverance.

“That comes down to attitude, and theirs was a little bit better than ours today,” he said. “We made a few mistakes and they capitalised on it, that’s what good players do. It was disappointing that no one from our point of view stood up and took control.

“If people try and make mistakes, I can live with that, it’s when we’re not putting ourselves in those positions to make mistakes [that bothers me]. We got a little bit shy today, a little bit nervous and didn’t take our chances.

“The referee makes tough calls and we’ve got to abide them. A lot of people look at that as a key incident in the outcome of the game and it probably was, but they had a guy sin-binned as well and we scored when they had a man down.”

Redruth did make a gallant charge for the win late in the game, but the Otley defence was again too strong, and they eventually turned the ball over for a counter attack resulting in another penalty which Shuttleworth may have converted had the ball not blown off his kicking tee three times before his strike fell short and to the left.

Hambly said his side have little time to feel sorry for themselves if they are going to win points at top-of-the-table Manchester next weekend.

“We’ve got a real tough game next week at Manchester, and like I’ve said before there’s tough games and then there’s really tough games. We’ve had three in a row, but we’ll work this week in training, hopefully put it right and the pressure’s on to go to Manchester to get a result – it will be a test and measure of how far we’ve come in the last six weeks.”

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The Reds played their third home game in a row on Sunday against St Austell, it was Anthonys first outing as ref.

The boys lined up with Jack Hitchens as Captain, the whistle blew and away we went. The lads attacked well and within a minute or so Henry put the ball down for our first try. We maintained good pressure and never looked as if we would concede, Connor Gilbert scored along with Luke who got 2 to put us 4-0 at half time.
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Second half saw the reds team changed and again we played well, Jack, Ciaran and Ryan (last minute) all put the ball over to give the Reds a 7-0 final scoreline.

Squad: Bradley, Ciaran, Connor A, Connor G, Dominic, Harry, Henry, Jack H (Capt), Jack M, Luke, Ollie, Ryan, Sam B , Sam R

Tries: Henry, Luke(2), Connor G, Jack H, Ciaran, Ryan

Reports and Pic by Stuart Morrison

Two match reports this week.

The first is from today