Pictures from Friends and Former Players day 10 October 2008

A few pictures from the Friends and former players day when we played Strathclyde Police. Lots more pictures are available on facebook(nearly 100) are on our fanpage on facebook. Cheers to Harry for pictures.

Cumnock 42 Strathclyde Police 15

On a the former players and friends sponsor day Cumnock RFC beat Strathclyde Polìce 42-15

Cumnock enjoyed a bonus point victory at home against Strathclyde Police this week. The home side ran in five tries in front of a large crowd including many players from the club’s past.

Cumnock started almost straight from the kick off when the Police gave away a penalty under pressure from Cumnock’s forwards. Kyle Johnson slotted the penalty to give Cumnock the early lead although this was cancelled out when the Police’s full back kicked a penalty of their own after a Cumnock player was caught offside.
Cumnock continued to apply pressure to the Police with strong carrying from Cumnock’s forwards and smart kicking by the half backs resulting in another penalty for Johnson which dropped just short although he then added another just minutes later from a similar position. Undeterred, Cumnock continued to apply pressure to the Police defence while controlling the majority of possession. Another penalty went awry for Cumnock when Mark Bennett narrowly missed a long range effort. However, all the pressure meant that a breakthrough was inevitable and it came when Bennett found space in the midfield to step a couple of defenders and sprint clear to score under the posts giving Johnson an easy conversion.
Just minutes later, Bennett was at it again when he stripped the ball off an opposition player and was left with a simple run in to give Johnson another easy kick and giving Cumnock a seventeen point lead.
Cumnock were unable to capitalise on their momentum as the Police started to come into the game and they controlled possession from a long spell although stubborn home defence kept them at bay. However, they finally scored when a well worked backs move was finished in the corner to record their first try. They missed the conversion meaning that Cumnock went into the second half with twenty points to eight lead.
Cumnock started the second half much as they started the first: with a Kyle Johnson penalty. However they were unable to build much on this as a series of unforced errors and soft penalties given away by Cumnock gave the Police a chance to come back into the game. They used the series of penalties to kick themselves into the corner. Cumnock held out against a persistent Police attack with good defence around the fringes of the rucks. Eventually the referee got fed up with Cumnock’s indiscretions in their attempts to keep the police out and sent Kevin Brady to the sin bin.
Cumnock’s defence gave way eventually with a powerful forward drive from the Police resulting in a try which was converted.
This seemed to wake Cumnock up and they started to play some excellent rugby as the increasingly vociferous crowd drove the home side on. The third try came after a loose kick from the Police gave Gregor McMillan the chance to run at the defence. He beat several defenders before being hauled down in the opposition twenty two. The ball was spun wide and a delicate chip from Tony Foster was gathered by Bennett to score his third. Johnson added an impressive touchline conversion.
Cumnock continued to play some excellent rugby as the Police and solid scrummaging from the props Rab Donald and Craig Greer gave a solid platform off which Cumnock’s backs could attack. The bonus point was secured when Bennett again broke the defence and fired a wide pass to Conner Nisbet who ducked under the final tackle to cross in the corner to record his first senior try.
Cumnock found time for one more when slick line out ball from Blair McMillan gave the backs ample time to run a well rehearsed move giving Bennett a simple run in for his fourth try which was again converted by Johnson.
Cumnock can take a lot out of this game with several outstanding performances. Some of the rugby that was played, especially late on in the second half was wonderful to watch and hopefully this will continue for the rest of the season.
Man of the match was Kyle Johnson for an excellent tactical display and some inspired kicking, both out of hand and off a tee.

Team: Rab Donald, Paul Miller, Craig Greer, Kevin Brady, Blair McMillan, Stuart Hunter, David Kerr, Jamie Thomson, Scott Houston, Kyle Johnson, Gregor McMillan, Mark Bennett, Martin Wilson, Alan Haynes, Conner Nisbet, Graham Hunter, Jim Ramage, Tony Foster

Next week: Cumnock travel to Clydebank in the latest league match

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• This Saturday 10th October (cumnockrugby.blogspot.com)

This Saturday 10th October

Cumnock 1 st XV play Strathclyde Police on
Saturday watched by those attending the Friends and Former Players Sponsors
Day.  Over 70 faces from the past and present will join the usual
supporters to cheer on the young Cumnock side against Strathclyde’s
finest.  Meanwhile the 2nds will play Hillhead Jordanhill also at Cumnock.

 

This promises to be the busiest day at the Club for many a
year and hopefully we will have a couple of wins from the 1sts and 2nds to top
it off.

 

Morton Houston

Cumnock RFC Mini Coordinator

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1st XV League fixtures updated

The league fixture list has been redrawn after complaints from some clubs about having 3 away games in a row. Here are the revised fixtures:

SRU results page and table

29th AUG STRATHENDRICK H
5th SEP OBAN LORNE A
12th SEP PAISLEY H
19th SEP LOCH LOMOND A
26th SEP CUMBERNAULD H
3rd OCT MILLBRAE A
10th OCT STRATHCLYDE POL H
17th OCT CLYDEBANK A
24th OCT CARRICK H
31st OCT WIGTOWNSHIRE A
21st NOV STRATHENDRICK A
5th DEC OBAN LORNE H
12th DEC PAISLEY A
19th DEC LOCH LOMOND H
9th JAN CUMBERNAULD A
16th JAN MILLBRAE H
23rd JAN STRATHCLYDE POL A
30th JAN CLYDEBANK H
20th FEB CARRICK A
27th FEB WIGTOWNSHIRE H

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2nds give polis a doing

Cumnock 2nd XV 44 - 12 Strathclyde Police 2XV

The 2XV welcomed Strathclyde Police to Broomfield on Saturday as the league campaign got underway in earnest. The visitors were a few players short due to work commitments, so 4 of the Cumnock squad volunteered to play for the visitors.
The game started well for the home side as they got into their stride very quickly, putting the police under a lot of pressure with good driving play from the forwards. The first scoring chance fell to the home side in the 4th minute when Greg Hamilton crossed the line, but it was called back for a forward pass. It was after some real pressure from the pack that Cumnock were awarded a penalty 5 metres from the police try line. The ball was tapped quickly and Rab Donald drove over for the first try, which was unconverted to take the score to 5-0.
The interplay between forwards and backs was great to watch considering the conditions, with both sides looking to run the ball at every opportunity. In the 15th minute, Cumnock were awarded a free kick for a scrum offence and the forwards took it on, with several players coming close, but it took the experience of Ian McCrorie to drive over for his try which Rab Donald converted to stretch the lead to 12-0.
The midfield of McPheators, Johnston and Barr were starting to orchestrate the play, supported by the back row of J Thomson, Hodge and Donald, and only dropped passes and excellent cover defence prevented the home side extending their lead. Steven Taylor capped a good all round diplay with his first try of the season in the 20th minute, sneaking over from a ruck on the line after some excellent play by the forwards. 17-0.
Rab Donald scored his second try of the game in the 23rd minute popping up to crash over and extend the lead to 22-0.
Martin Thomson was as solid as ever at full back and was always looking to attack whenever he got the ball. The ball was being passed around with every player looking to make ground, then offload to a supporting team mate. After one such passage of play, Jason Johnston crossed the line, but the ball slipped out of his grasp and the chance was gone. In the 33rd minute, the visitors got on the score sheet when the on loan Martin Hastings danced his way through the home defence to score a well worked try. This was converted and half time arrived with the home side ahead 22-7.
The Cumnock representation in the visitors ranks increased to 5 as Martin Wallace joined Martin Hastings, Barry Horton, Andrew Watt and Euan Laidlaw. The second half provided more of the same with both teams running the ball every chance they got. The game got a bit scrappy with a lot of passes not going to hand. Cumnock had been ringing the changes with several players getting well deserved breaks from the action and it was Mick Harkins who was the next player on the score sheet with a try following some excellent play from the forwards. After 50 minutes the score was 27-7.
Jason Johnston notched his first try of the season in the 58th minute with a well worked backs move. The police defence was being well tested by the home side as wave after wave of attacks were repulsed. The score had to come and Dougie Elliot profited after several players had been held up just short of the line. The kick was converted by Rab Donald to move the home side further ahead 39-7.
Both sides continued to attack, but the defences stood up well. James Hastie appeared on the right wing and used the men outside him as a decoy to crash over for Cumnock’s 8th try in the 67th minute. The difficult kick was misses, but the home side were now 44-7 ahead. Dropped passes prevented any further scoring by the Broomfield side although they continued to put several excellent moves into action. There was an encouraging debut for Kevin Lawler, who showed several neat touches and a willingness to go forward with ball in hand.


Squad: B Horton, Watt, Ramage, Linden, Harkin, Lawler, Seng, Barr, Hastings, Hamilton, J Thomson, M Thomson, Taylor, Wallace, McPheator, Johnston, Hastie, Elliot, Donald, Hodge, I McCrorie, A McCrorie, Laidlaw.

Saturday sees the 2nds travel to Giffnock to take on GHA Gazelles.

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2nd XV league fixtures

The fixtures for the 2nd XV have now been received. We will have 14 games before XMAS, when the league will split and the top 6 teams will play off for the promotion places. The remainder of the division will have games arranged for them.

We start off on Sat 5th September with a visit from Strathclyde Police, followed by a trip to GHA Gazelles.
The full fixture list is:

Sep 5th Strathclyde Police H
Sep 12th GHA Gazelles A
Sep 19th Loch Lomond A
Sep 26th Paisley H
Oct 3rd Cartha 3XV A
Oct 10th H/J 3XV H
Oct 17th Clydebank A
Oct 24th Allan Glens H
Oct 31st Wigtownshire A
Nov 14th Dalziel 3XV H
Nov 28th Garnock 3XV A
Dec 5th W/D A
Dec 12th Hamilton 3XV H
Dec 19th Jordanhill Phoenix H



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Cumnock 1st XV vs Strathclyde Police rearranged fixture

cumnock is playing Strathclyde Police on this Saturday 11 April 2009, by mutual consent. It was scheduled for 25th April. Please come along and support. Kick off 3pm

UPDATE: the score was Cumnock 10 Strathclyde Police 28 Kevin Brady and Alan (alcho) Smith scored our tries. The police scored 4 converted tries.

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Link to Strathclyde Police website

Strathclyde Police website online photos

New Dates for West Div 1 as @06/03/09

The Scottish Rugby Union have announced the dates for posponed games and the ones affecting Cumnock are as follows:

New Date/Match/Old Date

14 March Cumnock v GHK 25 Oct, 22 Nov, & 10 January
21 March Cumnock v Loch Lomond 7 February
25 April Cumnock v Strathclyde Police 29 November, 1 March
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