January 1st Team League Fixtures

* Saturday 9th Keynsham RFC Home

* Saturday 16th Thornbury RFC Away

* Saturday 23rd Barton Hill RFC Home

* Saturday 30th Berry Hill RFC Away

Those members of the club who have previously joined as Vice Presidents

are invited this year to join the Patrons

membership forms are obtainable from the bar.

The walkway down the side of the club has been 'roofed' over, to give members

options to spend more time outside without the weather issues that our climate brings.

This will ease congestion around the French doors area and benefit the club on the

more crowded days. This has been funded by the Patron's fund to a value of £2000.

This is on top of the funding by the fund of over £1000 to support pitch improvements

during the summer as well as contributions towards transport costs for last years

Under 16 and 17s, who both reached the Somerset Cup Finals.

There is due to be meeting between the club and the patrons regarding some

infrastructure projects that the club would like to look at in the hope that the patron's

Fund can support these.

Hornets 1st team game Tues v Avonmouth canceled waterlogged pitch Dave Fix Sec

Hornets 1st XV HOME

Barton Hill

Meet - 12:30

Kick Off - 14:30

ALL PLAYERS TO MEET AT 12:30

Hornets 2nd XV HOME

Bristol Harlequins

Meet - 12:30

Kick Off - 14:30

ALL PLAYERS TO MEET AT 12:30

Hornets 3rd XV AWAY

Wivvy

Meet - 12:30

Kick Off - 14:30

ALL PLAYERS TO MEET AT 12:30

Wednesday 3rd February 19:30

Venue - Weston RFC

Hornets 1st Team

VS

Avonmouth

Combination Cup

THIS WEEKS GAMES ARE AS FOLLOWS,

1ST TEAM TRAVEL TO BERRY HILL

12 MEET

2ND TEAM TRAVEL TO CLEVEDON

12 30 MEET

THANKS

WE ARE LOOKING TO HOST A SENIOR SEVENS TOURNAMENT THIS SUMMER AT THE CLUB, WE NEED SOME VOLUNTEERS TO TRY AND HELP BOTH ME AND OTHERS IN BOTH THE RUNNING AND THE ORGANISING OF THE TOURNAMENT, PLEASE PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE A SPARE FIVE MINUTES OR TWO AT THE CLUB OR VIA JOHN BEHIND THE BAR, ANY OFFERS WELCOME

Ryan good news have spoken to my sales director at work and he is allowing me to bring a team together to take part in your Sevens competition.

Also I think a semi naked calendar is a great way to raise money for the club, and I am up for that :)

Billy,

See if you can get Josh Partridge to get a team from the army up for Sevens tournament. Billy you know I am here to organise anything you need just let me know.

John

Sunday 14th February

Weston RFC

Hornets Colts vs Weston RFC

National Cup

14:00 ko

Join us all at Weston to see our superb Colts take on Weston. this will be a game not to be missed

The 6 Nations starts this weekend with Ireland taking on Italy @ 14:30, England playing Wales @ 17:00 but thats not all Scotland play host to France on Sunday @ 15:00.

Quiz Night @ the Clubhouse in aid of the RNLI, this Friday night from 7pm.

ALL welcome

The Colts game versus Weston Colts on Sunday 14th has got a revised kick off. The game will now kick off at 13:00

John

The Colts have been drawn away to Havant Academy in the Quarter Finals of the National Cup. The game will be played on Sunday 21st March.

Colts vs Bath Colts, Sunday 28th Feb at Home, 2PM. This is a league game against one of the strongest sides in the league so should be a good contest. Please come and support

Sorry my typing mistake. Bath game is today and not the 28th.

Another good win for the colts today congratulations to the players and coaching staff from us all, another big turn out to watch the colts win 52 12 against bath. some lovely rugby on show again especcially the last conversion of the game.

Hornets Senior Sevens 2010

22 May 2010

teams of 10

£25 per team

team entry available now

limited spaces

contact the club via mike darcy or ryan hedges asap

HORNETS 2NDS 7 ST BERNADETTES 2NDS 22

After another rocky warm up and another number of last minute changes with players being moved up to the first team and others such as dudd and martin jnr failing to show it was not surprising that hornets were going to be up against it from the start.

Within the first five minutes hornets soon realised this was going to be a usual physical combination fixture which surely would have left players with sore heads today. This soon turned into the bernadettes game plan as soon some of the younger hornets players found themselves being bullied both on and off the ball.

Hornets full back and part time olympic sprinter Hewlett soon crossed the line to be converted by Keating but this was to be the only home points of the day. Time went on the game soon turned from a rugby game to a boxing match soon to be intervened by the ref who issued Hewlett with a yellow card much to some of the home supporters annoyance.

Following the first half and several warnings the ref called both teams in and issued his final warning of the afternoon, thankfully both teams adhered and the rugby began, something must of clicked in the second half with rugby going well. the re were strong attacking runs from Hedges, Grimes and Armstrong aswell as a truly epic comeback from Richards.

Hornets managed to hold there 7 point win for most of the second half due to fantastic defending from centres Coggins and Lawrence. Vaughn again making a BIG difference coming on at 10 to bring some experience to the back line.

With a neck injury causing the scrummage to have to go uncontested this seemed to be the turning point for hornets with heads dropping and moral at a low things seemed to be harder going in the final twenty with hornets letting in 22 points and generally giving bernadettes the game. Hornets will have to work hard on there organisation for next week if they plan to stay contenders in the league.

Special mentions have to go to the strong back row performance and weston prop Grimes for lending his services from down the road.