Harlow 22 Blackheath Academy 7

Pre Season Friendly

22nd August 2009

Harlow continued their pre-season preparation last Saturday with warm up games for both the first and second teams. Director of Rugby Lee Harron can view the weekend with some satisfaction. A large turnout of players meant that it was possible to rotate players and positions in each of the four quarters and this provided valuable information for team planning in the remaining couple of weeks before league and merit table games start. Both teams included a number of colts and players in their first or second season of senior rugby and they performed well at this level.  After the game Lee Harron said, “A good step in the right direction. I was very pleased with our defence against a young adventurous Blackheath side. I was also pleased with aspects of our defensive Lineout and Scrum.  We showed courage trying some new things that Pete Claridge and Francis Brown have been working on with Players in Training. I was pleased we managed to create a number of scoring opportunities but need to continue working hard over the next few weeks turning these chances into points. We had a number of Colts involved during Saturdays game the young half back partnership of Sam Gregory and Danny Smith have a bright future along with James Lewis who held his own in the pack. It is disappointing that we will be losing Tino Charamba to University in the next few weeks. We travel to Woodford on Saturday who will be a much harder and more physical task to tackle.”

The second team performed well against a heavier Bancroft side and did well to run in four tries to the visitors three. With a number of changes in the squad they will need a week or two to settle but the prospects for the season are good.

This weekend the thirds and fourths start their preseason warm up and again prospects are good. The club has a strong facture list and will be running four sides every week plus an occasional veterans side.

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Team List

1 - James Ephgrave / Marc Williams / James Lewis

2 - Stuart Wilkins
3 - Danny Stonehouse / Paul Prindiville
4 - Darren Hawkins
5 - Paul Eynon 
6 - Mark Bowering
7 - Wayne Morgan / Tino Charamba
8 - Kain Claridge

9 -  Charlie Woodington / Sam Gregory

10 - David Stradling / Danny Smith  / Aled Hills
11 - Will Grimley
12 - Wayne Heapy
13 - Luke Bowering

14 - Simon Vanbeck

15 - Rob Mackie

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