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Welcome to the gossip addition of the official web site. We will be bringing you all of the latest news, reports, pictures and funny comments submitted.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
In April 2011 the operation of the National Schools’ Sevens was removed from my control by the Management Board of Rosslyn Park FC, which has decided that the tournament would in future be run by the Management Board.
Regrettably, therefore, I cannot assist with any information regarding the tournament which would normally be held in March 2012 and all enquiries in that regard should be directed to the Management Board at Rosslyn Park FC, its website www.rosslynpark.co.uk or the Rosslyn Park FC office 0208 876 6044.
I have organised the tournament for the last 23 years and my husband, Peter, has been involved for 46 years.
The tournament must be one of the biggest sporting success stories in modern history. I have been very proud to be the tournament organiser and have always carried out my duties in the best interests of the some 7,000 boys and girls who play in the tournament every year, their schools and clubs, Rugby Union itself and also Rosslyn Park FC.
I am disappointed to have my involvement brought to an end so unceremoniously and saddened by the unsubstantiated and incorrect allegations which Rosslyn Park FC chose to level at me during the period when the accounts of the tournament were being reconciled and handed over to the Management Board. I did not expect (or seek) to be honoured for my services over the past 23 years, but I did not expect to be maligned and hurt either.
Finally, I thank all the participants and contributors with whom I have had the pleasure of working over the last 23 years for making it such an enjoyable and memorable experience Kind regards, Rose Tanner
OFFICIAL NOTICE TO ALL PLAYERS
The use of leggings/tights/skins has been outlawed by the IRB as from 1st March 2010 and ratified by the R.F.U.
Therefore the use of the above is NOT allowed at the National Sevens.
This applies equally to the BOYS and GIRLS tournaments Win a School 7’s Rugby Kit At AKUMA, we recognise that School level rugby is the gateway for many people getting into the game. Such is our commitment that AKUMA IS GOING TO BE AT THE THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS SEVENS TOURNAMENT! In conjunction with this we are celebrating by offering you the chance to WIN a 7's kit for your school!
Just click on the kit designer button (above), enter your details and after your school name, add "SCHOOLS COMPETITION" to ensure you have entered. When you have finished creating your showpiece sevens kit click next so that your design is stored in our database and we will do the rest. Be sure to come and see us in the tented village as we will be handing out flyers to win a kit bundle, you can try out our kit designer and meet our surprise guests who will be around to give you hints and tips to help you with your game.
National Schools Sevens 2011 All schools participating in the NS7’s that register and intend to participate with Schoolchildren for Childrens event this academic year will go to a free draw for a coaching session with Martin Johnson. The winning school with up to 15 players and another 10 individuals from 10 runner-up schools will be invited to a coaching session with Martin Johnson which will most likely take place in April or May 2011. The winning school will also receive a free set of playing shirts. To be entered for the draw, please register now online at www.schoolchildrenforchildren.org or ring ScfC on 0845 450 5889 for more details
Pictures - David Whittam 2011
From early January 2012 · A. All the draws – please download which are relevant to your application(s) Teams on the reserve lists will be contacted immediately there is a vacancy. Would be very much appreciated if you waited for contact, rather than call us! · B. Squad Registration Forms – please download, complete, before registering at the control where you play your FIRST match. If you do forget the form, there will be hard copy forms for you! · . C. The pitches map is the same as 2010 and if you are a “new” school, please click on map/directions Attention schools: would Masters and/or second i/c obtain copy of EMERGENCY NUMBERS (Tournament week only) CLICK HERE to download
Pictures by David Whittam - see contacts for prints
2012 Programmes in advance – please apply via e-mail: ns7s@btinternet.com These are always essential to your parents/supporters etc. so they can plan their day(s) visit. Programmes will be available at all entry points to the grounds, from the Controls and the Information Marquee. Order forms for Official Tournament ties only available either via e-mail or at the Tournament. Your team will want to be part of their National Schools 7s Squad, so please order your ties now via e-mail. Rugby Remembers
In a quiet corner of the fields where you will play, you will find a war Memorial. It remembers the local men who fell in the Great War 1914-18. In 1922 the Conservators acquired 42 acres of Newlands Farm and built the Memorial Grove. The central granite monument is a 20-foot cross on three tiers, mounted on a raised octagonal base. The memorial was officially dedicated on 15 July 1925 and the site later named the Richardson Evans In a quiet corner of the fields where you will play, you will find a War Memorial Playing Fields, after the man who was instrumental in securing the land for the public.
Read the inscribed names and you will find Arthur Leyland Harrison VC, and Humphrey Dowson MC. Both were rugby players at Rosslyn Park. Harrison also played for England and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his heroic action at Zeebrugge in 1918. Dowson won the Military Cross for ‘conspicuous gallantry’ and was killed on the Somme in September 1916.
They are among 70 Rosslyn Park members killed in the War whose stories can be found at www.rugbyremembers.co.uk . Our original memorial tablet was lost in a Clubhouse move, and we are researching the names to create a new one. These players came from many schools, amongst them Uppingham, Marlborough, Haileybury, Bedford, St Paul’s, Dulwich, King’s Canterbury, Glenalmond, Durham, Sherborne, Blundells, Oundle, Wellington, Charterhouse, Dover College and Birkenhead. They played the game, but did not hear the final whistle.
Rosslyn Park kept rugby going during the War, when clubs had disbanded, by running Public Schools Holidays matches at its Old Deer Park ground. In January 1918 over 450 boys played and this was the precursor to the National Schools Sevens today. As a morale-booster for soldiers on leave from the front, ‘Public Schools Services’ teams also played fixtures against Military teams, with proceeds donated to war relief charities.
Rugby then was more than just sport, it was rehabilitation. Capt HM Chrystall, before his return to France in 1918 wrote: “The games have got me thoroughly fit in wind and limb, after being a physical wreck through shell-shock and given up by the doctors.”
As you enjoy your rugby on these playing fields, please give a thought to those who lie in some corner of a foreign field, and those who fight today in Afghanistan. To them you owe your freedom and safety. Remember them.
Rosslyn Park Injury Trust Fund
Registered Charity 284089
On the 2nd December 2006 the Trust Fund celebrated 25 years since its foundation. Those with long memories will recall this Fund was started following an accident to Sean Parry-Jones, head boy at Llandovery College. He was playing in the National Schools Sevens Tournament and sadly became quadriplegic following a tackle.
We have helped financially many who have been seriously injured playing sport and our assistance is not confined to those playing rugby.
This year we have made signicant grants to Alastair Johnson playing for Tynedale against Fylde and Matt Hampson both of whom became quadriplegic. The Trust is heavily dependent on donations and in this special Silver Jubilee year is appealing to your generosity. Please remembers that “but for the grace of God” it could be you or a relative who needs help.
As a generous act of goodwill, one of the Trustees, John Adair, hosted a party on his 60th birthday (coinciding with his day of retirement) and requested no gifts to him personally but asked for donations to the Fund. This act of self-sacrifice has brought in “1250 so far and still rising.
Please help the Fund to help others
Please send any donation to:
John Thurston Vessels Bessels Green Road Sevenoaks Kent TN13 2PT
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