The French surrendered early!!!

The Italians were a waste of time!!!

The Americans arrived late!!!

AND WE ARE LEFT WITH THE GERMANS!!!!

THIS SUNDAY AT REDRUTH RFC

WORLD CUP 2ND ROUND
ENGLAND v GERMANY

on the Big Screen with Drinks Promotion

Open at 1pm!!!!

YOUR CLUB AND ENGLAND NEEDS YOU!!!!!

The biggest day in Redruth town’s calendar, Murdoch Day officially starts at 10am this morning and will continue through until 4pm. There’ll be music and live bands throughout the day, a Clothes Show at St Andrew’s Church, the Children’s Dance and Art Procession at 10am through the town and a special exhibition at Murdoch House. The Murdoch flyer will be accompanied by a majorettes display, bouncy castle, sweet stall, tombola, car boot and surfing simulator in the Royal British Legion car park, and there’ll be fun rides for all the family in the Flowerpot car park.

There’ll also be the usual array of market stalls throughout the town, with the Mysterious Ladies selling the last of their share of last season’s Redruth Rugby clothing for only

This post was written by Luke Collins, who was passing the time before donning the Red shirt again next season by touring Canada with the England Counties squad.

Hello and welcome back to my guest blog!

We arrived back at Heathrow at 10am on Monday the 14th of June. It was a long yet very enjoyable two weeks, with some excellent rugby with a dash of socialising mixed in!

I left it last time that we had just landed in Toronto and we were getting ready for our game against Ontario Blues again this was a provincial side and we were soon told they would be a much harder test for the England Counties side. We prepared well and all of the players were more than up for the challenge of beating this opposition and keeping the tour on a winning run.

We arrived in Toronto on the Saturday lunchtime and our game was on the Tuesday night. It was important that we had the combination of training and rest right so the players could give 100% against our toughest opposition on tour to date. And with forwards coach Dave Baldwin and backs coach Jan Bonney we were sure as players we would be in the best shape possible. With a great session on the Sunday and a near perfect team run on the Monday the players were ready to get into a battle!

Before we had our game on Tuesday we had been asked to help coach the local youth and women’s teams. This was a tour tradition and helped us promote the name of England Counties and also help bring on younger players with some new coaching ideas. We were told as a group we would initially have 60-70 children and women to coach, however as we pulled up it was easy to spot this figure was a little sparse! With the actual number coming close to 160 we had to adapt our pre planned sessions pretty quickly!

The coaching session lasted for approximately an hour and all of the females and children alike thoroughly enjoyed the session and gained some valuable experience, as well as giving the coaches so new ideas. The game against Ontario Blues was to be held at the Crusaders ground and this is where we helped with the coaching of the youth and female set ups. I have to say that the club there is well run with a great family atmosphere and with some fantastic ideas and wanting to develop the youth and draw them into their senior side…….. Sounds very much like Redruth RFC!

Before we went on with any coaching we had a little down time and decided to go and visit a local sight………….. Niagara Falls! This was an epic sight and was a fantastic opportunity to visit one of the worlds most famous land marks! With a voyage with the Maiden of the mist its a trip I will not forget any time soon. However some of the travelling party felt a little hard done by with just a trip on a boat so decided to catch a helicopter and view the falls this way. I was assured it was a once in a lifetime chance and shouldn’t be missed (I had opted to miss, $100 was to steep for me!)……… However one of the helicopter passengers may as well have stayed at home as apparently he was a little nervous of heights and spent half of the trip not looking out of the window but more at the inside of their eyelids! I suppose it would be a bit like knowing you can’t swim and jumping into the deep end of the pool!

Anyway back to the game against Ontario Blues….
This game again was an evening kick off: this always poses a little bit of a problem as after the captain’s run in the morning as it leaves the players bored in the hotel. However with the hotel having a very good indoor pool and hot tub I don’t think it was going to be much of a problem on the boredom front. Especially with the indoor water slide!

The game against Ontario was definitely a game to be watched with expansive flowing rugby throughout. With a score in the first five minutes and a penalty not long after the players decided to almost try a sevens approach to the game. With Ontario capitalising on this scored a great catch and drive to score through their front five and not long after scoring a penalty, in fact the poor discipline of the England players in their own half kept Ontario in the game as their kicker was on top form! Going in to the break 16-10 down it was not an ideal situation, with some stern words from the coaches and some realisation by the players that the opposition were not just going to lie down and throw the game away. The Counties side came out playing some great rugby and putting the first score on the sheet that half. The game was still expansive in the late stages with again the counties side trying to play too much rugby in the dying minutes instead of retaining possession and locking the game out! With the final whistle gone and a win secured the players breathed a sigh of relief as this could have been the banana skin of the tour. Thankfully we came away with a win of 26-32.

With the players leaving Toronto the next day for a long 5

Looking for a weekend away at a nice hotel, some good food and drink, and with a bit of top-quality rugby sprinkled in for good measure?

Redruth RFC have teamed up with the Penventon Park Hotel to offer two night’s cut-price accommodation at one of Cornwall’s finest hotels. On top of that, we’re throwing in a matchday ticket, grandstand seat, match programme, Rowe’s pasty and four pints of Tribute Ale. As if that wasn’t enough, you can finish off your Saturday night with a complimentary entry into the Twilight Zone nightclub.

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