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KNIGHTS TAG RUGBY TOURNAMENT 2009
We hosted our 2009 Knights Tag Rugby Tournament in July at Castle Park. 40 teams from 28 schools braved the weather and battled it out throughout the day. The morning’s games were played in a round-robin format with a winner from each of the 8 groups winning a trophy. In the afternoon, teams were grouped according to the morning scores and teams played for the Championship, Premiership and European Cups. A massive thank you goes out to all the schools for attending, all the volunteers that helped and officiated on the day. We cannot run our tournaments without all your hard work so thanks to McAuley, Hall Cross and Trinity Academy for providing young helpers. Below are the winners from the day:-
Group 1 Winner = Thorne Green Top
Group 2 Winner = Auckley
Group 3 Winner = Bessacarr
Group 4 Winner = Hatchell Wood
Group 5 Winner = Edlington Victoria
Group 6 Winner =Town Fields
Group 7 Winner = Barnby Dun
Group 8 Winner = Lakeside
Championship Cup Winners = Willow
Premiership Cup Winners = Pheasant Bank
European Cup Winners = Thorne Green Top
Tag 2 Twickenham 2009 - Green Top's Rugby Journey
A very special rugby journey.
It all started in January on a very cold afternoon with an inexperienced group of Green Top Year 6 pupils who began to enthusiastically chase a rugby ball around.
4.3.09, Thorne Schools Tournament @ Thornensians Rugby Club - the group now looked like a good squad of tag players – the Thorne and Moorends Pyramid trophy in the bag.
3.6.09, Doncaster Tag Finals @ Keepmoat Stadium – Green Top battled their way through to the top and progressed along with Pheasant Bank (runners-up) to the South Yorkshire final.
10.6.09, South Yorkshire Tag Finals @ Barnsley RFC - the team was hungry for more success.
19.6.09, Yorkshire Tag Finals @ Pontefract Rugby Club - the team was flying - passing, running the ball, finding the spaces – and they became regional finalists heading for Twickenham?!
8.7.09, National Tag Finals @ Rugby School.
The squad was proudly standing on the playing fields of Rugby School, where the game was invented, in their Doncaster Knights kit. They were ready to compete in the national finals and by lunchtime had qualified for the cup round of play-offs with the top two teams going forward to Twickenham.
The games were fast, skilled and tight. Green Top finished third on their pitch leaving them in the top 5 tag teams in the country!
The eventual finalists, St Laurence School and Bourne Westfield School, deserved their day at Twickenham but Green Top Primary School has every right to feel very proud of their long journey to Rugby School.
A magnificent local, regional and national achievement!
Thanks go to Rachel Campion and Stewart Cullen - Doncaster Knights coaches - Mr Jackson - Green Top Year 6 teacher - and Mr Potts, Trinity Academy PE HoD who kindly drove the minibus down on the day. Also a big thanks to supportive parents who travelled down and most importantly the squad members as seen on the photos.
DIRECT Golf Day
DIRECT Golf Day
DIRECT hosted its second Golf Day on Thursday 11th June 2009, which proved a huge success for everyone involved. Making up DIRECT’s own team were Programme Manager Ali Wood plus Rugby Activity Officer John Rouse who were joined by first team coach Brett Davey and fly half Ali Warnock. After a great effort the DIRECT team came a respectable 5th out of 11 teams. The winners and prizes awarded of the day were:-
1st – Terrafirma – Golf bags for each team member
2nd – RJ Cadman Construction Ltd – Golf shirts for each team member
3rd – Hesley Group – Golf balls for each team member
Once back at Castle Park the evening was hosted by Nick Johnson. The evening's activities included a game of heads and tails, a raffle and an auction. Included in the auction were a signed shirt from Lee Westwood and a rugby ball signed by Lawrence Dallaglio. Winners are listed below:-
Raffle Winners:-
1 - Knights Matchball Sponsorship Package – Knights v Glasgow 21st August
Wayne Parker – Hesley Group
2 – Two Season Tickets for all Knights 1st Team matches
John Lupton
3 – Two season tickets for all Knights 1st Team matches
G Alton
4 – Bottle of Champagne
Rob Woodcock
5 – Family ticket to a Matchday of their choice
Eric Shelton
Auction Prize Winners
Lee Westwood Autographed Shirt – Colin Sapey
Lawrence Dallaglio Signed Ball – Ross Cadman
We would like to offer a huge thanks to all our generous sponsors of the event:-
RJ Cadman Construction Ltd
Atkinson Smith
Harbon Electrical
Yorkshire Aggregate
Middleton
P.D.M
Spinks
Highcliffe
H.K Kitchen and Bars
Design Interiors
Building Links
Humber Merchants
John Gee
K.M Davis
Pasuda
Laughton Roofing
Jarvis and Warnock
Ceiling Partitions South Humberside
A massive thanks to Ross Cadman for organising the day and putting in all his hard work!
South Yorkshire Tag Rugby Tournament
Wednesday 10th June saw the Yorkshire Tag Rugby Finals held at Barnsley RFC. Thorne Green Top and Rossington Pheasant Bank were representing Doncaster and did a fantastic job of securing 2nd and 4th place in the tournament! This means they will now go through to the Yorkshire finals, to be held on Friday 19th June at Pontefract RFC. It was a very close tournament with the winners from Richard Newman School winning on try difference leaving Green Top in second place. The top 4 schools going through to the Yorkshire finals include:-
Richard Newman
Thorne Green Top
Cudworth Churchfield
Pheasant Bank
We wish all teams the best of luck for the 19th and hopefully will see them get all the way through to the national finals to be held at Twickenham later in the year.
No Messin' Network Rail Event
Saturday 28th March - No' Messin Matchday
On Saturday 28th March, DIRECT worked alongside 2 of its key partners - Network Rail and Doncaster NDC (New Deals for Communities) to deliver a fun filled day of tag rugby and activities. We held a tag rugby tourment in the morning with schools from across Doncaster:-
- Pheasant Bank
- Southfields
- Tranmoor
- Shaw Wood
- Montagu
- Denaby Main
- Townfields
- Lakeside
- St Michaels
- Station Road
Winners Pheasant Bank took home the No' Messin and NDC trophy for 2009.
The Network Rail No Messin' Crew brought along various activities including a penalty shoot out, graffiti wall and buzzer game with lots of prizes to be won. The graffiti wall is to be displayed at Doncaster railway station to help promote the work Network Rail do to keep young people safe and away from railway lines.
DIRECT NOMINATED FOR COMMUNITY AWARD
DIRECT has been nominated for a Network Rail Partnership Award for all its hard work alongside Network Rail and their No Messin campaign. As well as Network Rail supporting our tournament on 28th March, we have shown our support at their South Yorkshire No Messin events for the last 2 summers and hopefully will be invited back again this year! We have delivered rugby based activities for the hundreds of children they target with their work.
DONCASTER TAG RUGBY FINALS 2009 @ KEEPMOAT STADIUM
DONCASTER TAG RUGBY FINALS - WEDNESDAY 3RD JUNE @ KEEPMOAT STADIUM
This years Doncaster Tag Rugby finals are to be held at the Keepmoat Stadium for all those schools who have won their pyramid tournaments over the last year. Below are some of the schools to be involved with the finals:-
Tranmoor (Armthorpe)
Plover (Danum)
Edlington Victoria (Edlington)
Willow (Hall Cross)
Hatfield Woodhouse (Hatfield)
Canon Popham (Hungerhill)
Our Lady of Sorrows (McAuley)
Montagu (Mexborough)
Station Road (Northcliffe)
Pheasant Bank (Rossington)
Green Top (Thorne)
The Knights and the Dons work together to deliver tag rugby across Doncaster so at the finals, players will be using a joint code of rugby to incorporate both league and union laws.
Results will be online once the tournament has been played.
Good luck to all those teams involved!!
EASTER CAMPS
During the Easter breaks, DIRECT was running their Easter rugby camp, these were separated into 3 different age categories, 8 and under, over 9s to 11, 12 to 15s. Myself and James Murphy were in charge of the under 8s. We split the three days accordingly; the first day was made up of handling in the morning and game sense in the afternoon, the second day consisted of SAQ (Speed Agility Quickness) in the morning followed by attacking and defending, on the final day we did tackle sense in the morning followed by fun games which illustrated all the skills taught throughout the camp.
Stewart Cullen - Rugby Development Officer
DIRECT SUMMER HOLIDAY PROGRAMME
Once again the DIRECT team are planning an action packed 6 weeks during the summer holidays. Not only are we running our Multi Sports activities we are also offering Rugby, Dance and Drama weeks.They are on offer to children aged 6-15, both boys and girls.
The plan for the 6 weeks is below, with an example timetable for the Multi Sports Camp
Week 1
20th - 24th July
Multi Skills @ Castle Park and Dome
Dance @ Castle Park
Week 2
27th - 29th July
Rugby Camp @ Castle Park
30th - 31st July
Multi Sports @ Castle Park and Dome
27th - 31st July
Dance @ Castle Park
Week 3
3rd - 5th Aug
Rugby @ Castle Park
6th - 7th Aug
Multi Sports @ Castle Park and Dome
3rd - 7th Aug
Dance @ Castle Park
Week 4
10th - 12th Aug
Rugby @ Castle Park
13th - 14th
Multi Sports @ Castle Park and Dome
10th - 14th
Dance @ Castle Park
Week 5
17th - 19th Aug
Rugby @ Castle Park
20th - 21st Aug
Multi Sports @ Castle Park and Dome
17th - 21st Aug
Dance @ Castle Park
Week 6
24th - 28th Aug
Multi Sports @ Castle Park and Dome
Dance @ Castle Park
(Drama camps to be confirmed)
Example timetable for Multi Sports Camp:-
Monday @ Dome
am - Dry sports + Ice Skating
pm - Swimming
Tuesday @ Castle Park
am - rugby
pm - football / rounders
Wednesday @ Castle Park
am - athletics
pm- cricket
Thursday @ Castle Park
am - ultimate frisbee
pm - archery
Friday @ Dome
am - Climbing + Ice skating
pm - swimming
All activities are subject to change due to weather, staffing and participant numbers.
For any more information on holiday programmes please contact the DIRECT team
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