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Congratulations to our mighty number 4 Royce Cadman on his 200th appearance for Canterbury 1st XV this weekend. Royce made his league debut against Clifton at home in 2013 and has been a regular first-team player since.
Looking back on his Canterbury career, Royce reflects that victories against teams that have risen to higher leagues are always memories to savour, but being a part of the squad that earned Canterbury promotion to National League 1 is the one of which he is most proud.
Congratulations to Tom Best on his 250th appearance for Canterbury this weekend. He remembers his first game being against Southend away (2009/10 season), only being called up early game day morning due to a fellow player having suffered an asthma attack. Not a lot of time to prepare, but he pulled on his boots and worked a good shift for us as ever.
Tom has many fond memories of playing with the team, beating Hartpury away (2012/13 season) by 1 point, and kicking a 35-yard penalty in the last 2 minutes when we were 28-0 down at halftime would have to be up there, but scoring the last try against Henley in the last few minutes to win the game to get us to the playoffs is definitely one of the fondest.
Congratulations to Guy Hilton on his 100th appearance for Canterbury. His first run out for the team was in the 2013/14 season at home vs Chinnor. A match we won 20-13, so a great debut!
Wins against the bigger sides always stick out in the memory but Guy’s fondest playing memory wouldn’t be one particular game but rather a run of games. In the December of 2013/14 season, Canterbury beat Ampthill (H) Bishops Stortford (A), and Cambridge (H) in consecutive games to put us 2nd in the table at Christmas.