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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. 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
Pictures - David Whittam 2010
From early January 2010 · 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 2009 and if you are a “new” school, please click on map/directions 2011 Tournament Dates The Programme has been printed with the wrong dates for 2011 We can confirm them to be 28th March to 1st April 2011 2009 TOURNAMENT DVD Copies of the 2009 Rosslyn Park National Schools 7s DVD will be available from the Information Marquee at the Tournament. The Production Company Capricorn will be selling the DVD at £5 per copy, £20 for six or £35 for 12. You can still order these copies online NOW at: www.schoolsrugbyfilm.com Please remember this is the ONLY official DVD available from the 2009 Tournament, so purchase your copies for your 2009 team and for posterity as soon as possible - limited supplies
Pictures by David Whittam - see contacts for prints
AVAILABLE NOWProgrammes 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. The printed 2010 Tournament programme and the vouchers for your squad will be sent in early March in the post – hopefully by then, the Royal Mail and the Unions will have resolved their differences. If there is likely to be a problem and a huge backlog of mail remains to be delivered please look at the website for alternative arrangements 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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