Newly Promoted, Watford Rugby Club, sponsored by Andrew Towns - Wadey (Builders) Ltd is based on Knutsford Playing Fields, Radlett Road, Watford. We are an extremely friendly club, and we spend as much time, effort and money on socialising as we do on training!!! If you wish to join Watford Rugby Club, then please feel free to come speak to us at either training on Tuesdays or Thursdays, 7.00pm meet for 7.15pm start.
Andrew Towns - Wadey Builders Ltd are a construction company based in North London. They have kindly agreed to a sponsorship deal with Watford RFC and are very keen to push the club forward and encourage them to improve each season.
Our rugby club offers rugby for all ages, with Junior teams training and playing most weekends. To make an enquiry about our youth teams please see the about us page or post in our Watford Rugby Club Forum for further details.
WRFC hosted a fantastic match between Francis Combe and St Michaels on Saturday 5th May. A close fought encounter between the two schools saw Francis Combe wining by 17 points to 14.
Watford welcomed back skipper Chris Thompson back to scrum half for his first game in several months and commenced the game in vigorous fashion, being first to the loose ball and generally tackling and running more purposefully than their opposite numbers. Even playing against a heavier Hertford 8, they managed to secure their own ball steal some of the opposition throws and played the game camped in the Hertford half. However the pressure led to few clear cut opportunities until Paul Wilson burst powerfully off his left wing through four or five tacklers to score after about twenty minutes. The conversion was not added.
Watford under 8's went in to the Hertfordshire County Tag Rugby Festival hopeful of success in their last competion before they move up an age group. They were drawn in a pool with Royston, Bishops Stortford, Letchworth and Fullerians (the hosts). All of these clubs are bigger than Watford and have a larger player base. Watford made a winning start against Royston and then went on to beat Bishops Stortford, Letchworth and then drew with Fullerians. This meant that they were there pool winners and went through to the semi finals of the main competion, where they were to meet Old Albanians. Although they put up a good fight Watford lost the game to what turned out to be the eventual winners and county champions. It was a great effort by the whole squad who proved that although they were playing for a smaller club they had a great team spirit and were a credit to their coaches Simon Prout and Mark O'Shaughnessy. Squad: Max Gilbert, Harry O'Shaughnessy, Henry Capell, Aidan Tearle, Dejon Noel-Williams, Patrick Addison, Johnny Stangroome, Christopher Haydon, Jack Garvin, Joshua Maney, Fabrizio Beardwell, Jordan Emmanuelle, Michael Griffiths, Oliver & Hugh Vickers.
As the scoreline suggests this was eventually a very one sided game though the opening exchanges gave few clues of what was to follow. Tries in the first quarter by Simon Tucker and Martin Lee gave a solid look to the scoreboard, but it was the three quick scores in the five minutes directly before the interval that really broke the spirit of the OMT's side.
Watford kicked off with a very youthful looking side against a strong wind in a game where they really needed a victory after two successive draws to set up their end of season push to get to the merit final. The far more sizable and experienced, Harrow pack were always going to dominate, though Watford had pace to spare and cleverly at times though also chaotically they attempted to run the ball whenever possible. The Harrow number 8 was causing major damage in the home defence whenever he had the ball and predictably scored the opening try after a short range surge to the line after they had an attacking line out near the Watford line. The conversion was added to give them a seven nil lead. Worse was to follow after half an hour when confusion in the Watford midfield led to the Harrow outside centre scoring under the posts, the conversion was added to leave Harrow fourteen points ahead.
Watford Under 8's travelled to Worthing on Sunday to enter their Mini's Festival. With over 1,500 hundred children playing in all age groups from Under 7 - Under 12 Watford knew that they would be facing some very stiff opposition. With 16 teams entered into the Under 8's age group Watford's pool consisted of themselves, Tunbridge "B", Sevenoaks and Brighton. With these clubs having a much bigger player base than Watford it was a real credit to the squad that they managed to win all of their group games and progressed to the semi final of the main cup competition.
Watford went into this game looking to get back to winning ways after the previous weeks loss. As the teams made their way onto the pitch it became obvious that the visiting team's strength was going to be their pack due to their size. Unlike the last few games Watford hit the ground running and form nearly their first attack good work between centres Quintas Van Bosch and Peter Cox led to Cox scoring beside the posts.
WRFC Results Points Scorers Tables 8 (80)
