Welcome to the Rugby match pages of your Class of 77 website. These
pages will feature famous rugby matches enjoyed or endured by members of
the Class of 77. From above it can be seen that we start with the clashes
against Bryanston school. (For pervs their address is
http://www.bryanston.co.uk)..this
thread was started by an off the cuff remark in an e-mail. Below you will
find the subsequent ramblings and memories of the few ! Enjoy. If
you would like to add further insights then please e-mail
sutekh@btopenworld.com and I
will include your thoughts.
From a senior
source !!
The
1stXV team selected to play Bryanston tomorrow, 11
November 1976, is as follows:
Eales
so now and very cryptically
can you help with the following questions..
How many appearances did
Ashley S make?
Did he score any tries and if
so how many and in what game(s)?
Who was suspended for the
Churches game?
BTW
in the 1976/77 season there were in fact 14
games, only 12 being reported in the OP
Magazine
The
2 omitted were against Havant Colts and
Portsmouth making a maximum of 14 appearances
possible
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From Neal H .... the Bryanston Game........... it was at Hilsea, and it
was the first Season in LVIth, so Hopkinson, Moss. etc., were in the side
as well as us guys? They targeted Hopkinson which the referee did squat
about all game until due to the blows (especially in the Line out) he was
substituted. We won by about 15 points or so I cannot remember the actual
score... But John Stones scored a Try, and we had you at No. 6 and Rhino
at Tight head, Mark out on the Wing, yours truly at No 9. And they were
REALLY pissed that they lost it as they had not lost to the Grammar school
for about 8 years. Harris was cart wheeling down the line afterwards!!
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From Rhino....I certainly remember the away game
- maybe because losing was a rare experience!
There was trouble in that one also. The other
U6th second row (in Whitcombe?) had a dust-up on
the deck and I think I was playing loose head
that game as I remember losing a scrum to their
put-in on our right wing and having to get out
quickly to cover across but not being able to
get across in time to do anything about their
winger scoring on our left wing.
The Bryanston pitch and grounds were fantastic.
Remember going up there (when injured) to see
some of our team playing in the U15 regional
England trial. Very rarely got the chance to see
us play from touchline and it was a revelation.
JCS was untouchable that day!
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From Kevin J...
I had some sport in the second XV away to
Bryanston. Did they really have a Helicopter
in their CCF?
Their prop kicked Grav Inkpen in the head
after he scored a try.
It was my duty to exact retribution! Mark
Satchell obliged by changing from blind
side to open side so I could reach their
prop, I did. He moved to second row and I
made contact again. He tried No 8 and knew
what hit him every time and then he went
to full back.
Happy daze and I think I even fell over
and scored a try too
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from Rhino (2)
The archivist at PGS, John Sadden (Alasdair Akass kindly pointed me in
the right direction) has got back to me with extracts from The
Portmuthian magazine in 1975/6 and 1976/7 which may help to refresh some
memories. The away defeat in 1975 against 'Bryanston' is probably the
one I remember.
I love the forward to the 75/76 year and the comments on '...the
noticeable increase in slackness and indifference of the players to
standards of dress, punctuality and other aspects of reasonable
membership of an organised sport....' Even after 35 years felt I was
being chastised personally for a lack of moral fibre!
Many thanks to John and Alasdair for their help in digging that up - we
promise not to inundate them with too many other requests but it would
be interesting to know if there is any photographic record of rugby in
that era?
From Chris J...I think I remember the away game and what struck me was
that their forwards used girlie appliances (aka weights in the gym) to
give them a bit of muscle which went right against the grain as our
fitness regime comprised occasional application of the bullworker and
smoking behind the cathedral wall then jumping into Satch's FORD ANGLIA!
to the common then run out round Beef, back in the car, wait for the
threes to come running back then follow them in down the high street.
Was the cricket in the Esso trophy (I remember fucking up big time in the
semi of a cricket trophy at Charterhouse but thought it was the Daily Mail
cup) or was it part of the tour to the west country (ie Doreset!) when we
hopped onto the pitch at the school (Canford?) in recognition of michael
palin's tomkinson who in the tv show had been nailed up on the walls in
his schooldays? I think that was also where Eric at 2nd slip watched a cut
off a quick one from mike dyer go to where it was intended (the
boundary) but as it took a thick edge smacked him right in the middle
of the forehead and then went for four - absolutely priceless! As you can
tell it's all a bit misty now!
from Chris De..No
memories whatsover!! was I playing??? (Still no sign of Band on the
Run on the classic 70's album list!!)
From Mike D...Decent
day. Can't remember if we won but great setting. Didn't Chris Jones get
hurt or his chin rubbed raw at prop..
From FRUIT BAT
Ah-ha, the
information on the website has prompted
two memories - like Dylan, I was beginning
to wonder whether I ever played any rugby
at school! Both come from the 1976-77
season:
-
Who can
forget that blazingly hot day in April
when we played and won the Hampshire
Sevens (was I really propped by
Neil Thomas and Jack Miller!!??) - when
the only real bump in the road was when
PGS 2nd. Seven took us to extra time in
the semi-final (thanks guys!). I
remember the agony of those extra
minutes, when no quarter was given on
either side, reinforced by the
realisation that we would have to play
10 minutes each way in the final (is
there any other game where they do
something so stupid!?)
- The team
list prompts a memory of the away game to
Bishops Wordsworth. At the first scrum,
as I tried manfully to lay down a marker
and take the first one against the head, a
flood of punches rained into my face: it
took me only a short while to realise that
they were coming from my own loose-head,
Simon Rudkin! I erupted from the scrum
and shouted at him something along the
lines of "you do that again, you idiot,
and I'll f----ing send you off myself!"
(clearly the power of vice-captaincy went
to my head a bit to quickly :-) ). Happy
days!
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