Month: August 2021

Mini & Youth registration weekend

September 5th registration day

Posted on | by Denys Andrianjafy

We are looking forward to welcoming you back to the Marine Travel Ground for registration on Sunday 5th September.

Registration will take place in the clubhouse where we will have a team waiting to help you through the process. Please make sure you do this before going to your allocated training area. Other club helpers will also be available to answer any questions you may have or to assist you.

Please try to come 30 minutes before the training session so the registration desks can process you. You can register online before the day by going to – https://gms.rfu.com/GMS/Account/Login. We would recommend you do this if you can to prevent congestion at the registration desks.

Pitch allocations and timings are as follows –

Age Group Timings Pitch Allocated
U6 & U7’s 09.00-10.30 Grids behind the Clubhouse
U8’s 09.00-10.30 Training Pitch
U9’s 09.00-10.30 Training Pitch
U10’s 09.00-10.30 Lower Orchard
U11’s 09.00-10.30 Top Orchard
U12’s 09.00-10.30 Top Pitch
U13’s 10.45-12.45 Training Pitch
U14’s 10.45-12.45 Lower Orchard
U15’s 10.45-12.45 Top Orchard
U16’s 10.45-12.45 Top Pitch
Colts 13.00-15.00 Top Pitch

Click to view a map of The Marine Travel Ground

Players should wear comfortable sportswear, rugby/football boots or trainers, bring a gum shield and a water bottle.

As our young players are constantly growing out of boots, shirts etc, we will be organising a kit exchange for later in the season to bring old kit in, drop off and exchange. We will be looking for volunteers to help us run this. If you are interested, please contact us on volunteering@cantrugby.co.uk for more details.

The club shop will be open to supply new kit and equipment.

The clubhouse bar will open from midday and Saucy Flo’s restaurant will be open from 8.30 am selling hot drinks and breakfast rolls and cake.

Though Covid restrictions are lifting, we are still trying to operate a Covid secure environment. Sanitising stations will be available to all and where possible, we will observe social distancing inside. Wearing facemasks is not compulsory though we would encourage you to do so if possible.

 

Hellfire Wheelchair Rugby Team

Hellfire Team Chair interviewed on BBC Radio Kent

Posted on | by Denys Andrianjafy

Our Chair of the Canterbury Hellfire wheelchair Rugby team, Brian Pitchford, went on Julia George’s BBC Radio Kent show, 25/08/2021 to talk about sport for all and wheelchair rugby. Listen to his interview (forward to 2:41:03) – https://bbc.in/3gvgrCD.

We are always looking for new players and volunteers across Kent. Whatever your disability, come to one of our taster sessions to try out Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby.

12th September 2pm – 4pm and 22nd 6pm – 8pm at Medway Sports Centre, Mill Road, Gillingham, ME7 1HF.for more information or to book your slot contact Brian Pitchford at wheelchair@cantrugby.co.uk.

CRFC vs Tunbridge Wells

Game called off

Posted on | by Denys Andrianjafy

The pre-season match against Tunbridge Wells on on Saturday, August 28th has been cancelled. Unfortunately, Tunbridge Wells have pulled out of the fixture for reasons not specified. The club is trying to find another fixture but at this late stage this is proving difficult. If a game can be arranged the situation will be updated later in the week. The senior squad now plan to hold a training session on Saturday morning..

CRFC vs Judds pre-season friendly

Pre-Season Promise

Posted on | by David Haigh

Canterbury 19 Tonbridge Juddians 27

After seventeen months of rugby inaction there was a sense of relief that this pre-season friendly finally lifted the gloom at Canterbury’s Marine Travel Ground. What also lit up the afternoon was the performance of a young Canterbury squad which has lost some its most experienced members during the Covid shut down.

Since these sides last met they have swapped league status, Juddians taking the relegated city club’s place in National Division One.

But it was Canterbury who took the initiative, forcing TJ’s into errors and by the half way stage were leading 14-10 with tries from Tom Best and Sam Sterling, new fly half Frank Reynolds and Best adding conversions.

There was a more experienced look about the visitors squad but they were made to work hard for their scores, one from close quarters and the second a long range run when a city attack went wrong.

With the game split into twenty minute sessions, frequent changes in personnel meant shifts in power and Juddians used them to take control of the sets scrums but still found themselves two point down going into the last session. They grabbed a try from a charge down but Canterbury replied with the best score of the day, finished in style by Jack Weaver. In the final quarter a clever break by Reynolds was frustrated by a dropped pass and the visitors grabbed a couple of scores to edge the game. Canterbury, however, will take so many positives from a match which proved they have solid building blocks on which to construct their season.

David Haigh