B.W. Est/Wok 0 - Luxembourg 88

Weather: 16° and sunny

Pitch: Good

Kick Off: 11:00

Spectators: 16

With good referring from Mr. Pontseel, Luxembourg started:

1- Niclas, 2- Yannick, 3- Xavier, 4- Louis, 5- Gabriel, 6- Lucas, 7- Antoine R, 8- Pedro (C), 9-William, 10- Matthiew, 11- Hugo, 12- Callum, 13- Stuart, 14- Gregoire, 15- Sean

Subs: HT 19- Benji for Matthew. 40’ 20- Micky for William. 44’ 21 Francesco for Hugo. 50’ 16- Pierre for Niclas and 17- Jordi for Yannick. 56’ 18- Frederico for Pedro and Christopher for Gregoire.

Scorers: Pedro (3), Antoine (2), Gregoire (2), Louis, Stuart, Lucas, Xavier, Benji, Sean and Francesco.

Convertions by Matthew (2), Benji (6) and Stuart.

For the second game of the league we went to Joidogne to play with a courageous RW Est team who could only align 13 players.

For no particular reason, our boys started the game very nervous with lots of handling errors and giving away penalties. Even if they scored the first two tries very quickly, with Pedro, at the 4th minute, getting a ball from a scrum and taking advantage of the space to get around the defence and Louis scoring at the 8th minute from four well played successive rucks, the team didn’t calm down. The next 20 minutes were a display of chaotic rugby, individual actions, bad passes and incomprehensible penalties conceded. One had to wait till the 29^th minute to see the first really collective action when the forwards kept the ball in control and a fine move in the backs ended with Stuart scoring. Before, at the 18^th minute, Antoine had score forcing his way to the try zone after a penalty at 5m. In the 32^nd minute, Antoine scored again, this time from a ruck near the opposition try line to settle the score 29-0 at half time.

Things improved a lot in second half when the team finally played collective and did the rugby basics right. With the RW Est team showing signs of giving up and fresh blood in the team, the tries started to pile up. In the 5^th minute, Callum started from our 22 and some good passes after Gregoire scored. In the 8^th minute another good action from Callum and a good follow up, Lucas scored. In the 14^th minute Pedro scored again from a scrum. In the 17^th minute, Antoine did a good run and Xavier scored after a good forwards support. One minute after, Gregoire scored again after a good back’s move. In the 20^th minute, Pedro scored after a lonely run. In the 23^rd minute, Callum entered again and a good follow up ended with Benji scoring. In the 26^th minute, nice pass from Micky allowed Sean to cut through all the defence. In the 33^rd minute, another successive good passes ended in the hands of Francesco to score in the corner.

Conversions by Matthew, Stuart and Benji (6) settled the score 88-0.

In the overall the boys played again a very serious game correcting in the second half the errors made in first half. Having 10 different players scoring tries, shows the collective is working, even if a RW Est team weakened by the absence of two players on the pitch made the task easier. The forward pack was dominant in the scrums and line outs and the ball carrier almost always benefited from good support. The back line displayed again very good moves ending, when they kept it simple, with a try.

Man of the Match: Antoine

U17 - 3B Belgium Cadets Day 2

B.W. Est/Wok - Luxembourg

Saturday September 26

11:00

Stade:
Rue de la Chapelle Saint Jean
1370 Piétrain (Jodoigne)

Departure: 07:15 from Glacis
Arrival: 15:00


Convocation:

ARGUELLO Jordi
BAUR Niclas
BONALLO Callum
BOONE Yannick
BOONE Xavier
CARROLL Sean
COCHET Hugo
DENNIS William
FIORI Francesco
GENEST Grégoire
GIRAUDO, Frederico
HOPWOOD Matthew
LANNOY Pierre
LAVIS, Louis
LOGIER Stuart
LOWTHER Lucas
MAURICE Gabriel
RAMOS Pedro
RIZZI Micky
ROSSA Christopher
ROUSSEL Antoine
SIMPSON Benjamin

Standby : SCHWENGLER, David / PARENT, Rodolphe /PESCHEUX, Charly

Luxembourg 78 - Celtic 0

Weather: 17° and sunny

Pitch: Good

Start: 11:00 (2 x 35 minutes)

Spectators: 26

With a good referring from Mr. Etienne Cassart, Luxembourg started with:

1- Niclas, 2- Yannick, 3- Xavier, 4- Mario D, 5- Gabriel, 6- Lucas, 7- Antoine R, 8- Pedro (C), 9-William, 10- Matthiew, 11- Hugo, 12- Callum, 13- Stuart, 14- Gregoire, 15- Sean

Subs: 48’ 18- Micky for William and 19- Benji for Matthew, 49’ 16- Rodolphe for Xavier, 55’ 17- Louis for Mario D, 57’ 20- Francesco for Hugo and 21- Charly for Gregoire.

Scorers: Callum (3 T), Sean (2T), Hugo (2T), Stuart, Gregoire, Yannick, Pedro and Benji.

Matthew (6 C), Benji (3 C).

The game was much more interesting than the score may suggest. After a nervous start, with a few handling and positioning errors, Luxembourg opened the score in the 4^th minute. Celtic conquered the ball in the ruck and kicked to our half where Sean caught it and ran into Celtic defenders only to cut the defence apart and sent Hugo storming down the right channel to score in the centre.

From here the match report becomes the description of the tries. One hadn’t to wait long for the second try. In the 8^th minute, Pedro got the ball from our own throw in the line out. With a fine flowing move in the backs the ball reached Stuart to score in the middle of the posts. Matthew converted. In the 14^th minute, after 3 ruck phases the ball was recycled to the backs and, after 3 good passes, Callum entered between two defenders to score in the middle. Matthew converted. In the 18^th minute, Sean caught another ball ballooned to our half and went through the defence to fix most of the Celtic team. The ball came to the backs and with another fine move reached Gregoire who scored in the corner.

In the 24^th minute, a penalty in our favour was quickly played till the ball reached Hugo sending him storming down again till the line, beating two defenders in his way. Matthew converted.

In the 27^th minute, Sean picked another ball kicked in panic and decided to do the job alone cutting through the defence and scoring in the middle. Conversion by Matthew.

In the 35^th minute, we won our scrum, the ball was passed in the backs till it reached Callum who entered again in a Celtic defence now very much disorganised. Conversion by Matthew.

Score at Half Time: Luxembourg: 45 – Celtic 0.

Second half started in the same way. In the 3^rd minute, Pedro got the ball from the scrum, fixed 3 defenders and passed to Sean unstoppable till the score line. Conversion by Matthew. In the 7^th minute, Callum picked up a ball from the ground and went through the defence to score in the middle of the posts.

At this point, the boys started to show some signs of fatigue allowing Celtic to relieve the pressure. For 10 minutes nothing really happened with both teams making a lot of mistakes. After fresh blood was put in the pitch, Luxembourg went back to the right track scoring one of the best tries of the match. Inside the 18^th minute, Benji got a ball and started a fine movement with the ball passing several players and ending up again in Benji’s hands for a try in the middle of the posts. Conversion by Benji.

In the 27^th minute, another try this time pure forwards work: 4 ruck phases well played ended with Yannick falling in the try area. The referee decided for a penalty try because of a bad gesture from a Celtic boy. Conversion by Benji.

Finally in the 30^th the score was settled. After a good move in the backs, Pedro entered in the corner to score in the middle of the posts. Conversion by Benji.

Even with this heavy score, the game was always interesting with some good moves and good skills from our boys. There are still a lot to correct and to improve but it was very pleasant to see them playing like they did so early in the season.

What looks like an easy victory, was a result of a very serious game from the boys, good collective moves, good defence and good commitment.

The Celtic team also contributed to it as they lacked nothing in spirit and never really gave up. A couple of bad gestures (coming more of frustration than anything else) doesn’t take away their merit.

A final word for the referee: He always had the game under control and had much more good decisions than bad ones. Very good.

Man of the Match: Sean

U17 - 3B Belgium Cadets

Luxembourg - Celtic Brussels

Saturday September 19

11:00

Stade Boy Konen - Cessange


Convocation:

BAUR	Niclas
BONALLO	Callum
BOONE	Yannick
BOONE	Xavier
CARROLL	Sean
COCHET	Hugo
DELLAGIACOMA	Mario
DENNIS	William
FIORI	Francesco
GENEST	Grégoire
HOPWOOD	Matthew
LAVIS	Louis
LOGIER	Stuart
LOWTHER	Lucas
MAURICE	Gabriel
PARENT	Rodolphe
PESCHEUX	Charly
RAMOS	Pedro
RIZZI	Micky
ROUSSEL	Antoine
SCHWENGLER	David
SIMPSON	Benjamin

Standby : Dooley, James

URGENT - Tomorrow's training

Due to pitch unavailability at the Henri Funk, our training tomorrow will take place at Cessange (17:30-19:00).
Bus 2 and 4 stop at the Stadium.

Sorry for the late warning and any trouble it may cause to your planing

Good rugby WE, superb weather for a rugby festival !

RC Tilburg are a very nice bunch of guys whom we promised to visit back in NL (only 3h drive) in May or June 2010.

Their U17 team was in fact a merge of 2 teams that had never played together before. This may explain the heavy scores but the way our boys played, the collective rugby they showed already is very encouraging.

Saturday:

Luxembourg 56 - RC Tilburg 10 (3 x 15')

Tries: Gregoire (2), Sean (2), Pedro, Callum, Lucas, Stuart, Frederico and Quentin.
Conversions: Matthew (6)

Sunday:

Luxembourg 61 - RC Tilburg 5 (3 x 15')

Tries: Pedro (6), Stanley (2), Gregoire (2) and Callum.
Conversions: Matthew (3)

Training

Tuesdays and Thursdays

17:30 to 19:00

Stade Henri Funk (Neudorf)