Ottignies-Luxembourg

Dear All,

After this long winter pause, Belgium Cadets Division 1 resumes this Saturday 2/3 with a away game at Ottignies.
Players in the list must be at Glacis at 9:15 for departure at 9:30 (9:45 at Weiler near the shops)
Don't forget an ID, you cannot play without
Ottignies-Luxembourg

Boulevard de Lauzelle
1348 Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve

Kickoff: 13:30
EAT: 18:30

Adrien AMOUYAL
Alexander HAGEMANN
Antoine TRUCHOT
Baptiste LACHAISE
Charles-Xavier RAMILLON
Conor SUTHERLAND
Daniel ASCOLI
Ervin MURIC
Freddie SIMPSON
Gareth GEOFFREYS
Gwen GIBEAUX
Henry SEALE
Harry VIGOR
Hugo OMBREDANE
Jaz  HENRY
Louis COTTAM
Maxime VAN den EYNDE
Robert HOPWOOD
Rubens ROZET
Sacha ERNSTBERGER
Samuel IRONS
William BROWN

 

 

Standby: Mike MARZONA, Louis FABER, Paul DARREAU, Joseph CAILLES

Portugal Tour - The games

Saturday, February 2

U17 - Caldas 12 - CSCE 64
U19 - Caldas 12 - CSCE 19

The U17s didn't have a big challenge, playing a Caldas team much shorter and lighter. However,
since the first minute, they showed they weren't just tourists and played how these games should be played: committed, serious and concentrated.
The U19s had a more difficult task facing a Caldas team in a mission to prove foreigners wouldn't get it too easy. A lot of individualism and mistakes from our players didn't help either. At the end a score which is much better than the quality of rugby displayed.

Sunday, February 3

U17:  Santarém 0 - CSCE 36
U19:  Santarém 0 - CSCE 34

Portugal seems to suffer from the same problem we have in Luxembourg: football has absolute priority. As a result, although our hosts booked the pitch, we could only play 30 minutes in the U17s and 40 in the U19 because the football team booked the same pitch at the last minute.
Santarém aligned two very good teams and even if the scores don't show it, the games were more difficult than the day before.
The U17s raised their level and displayed a superb rugby which didn't give the opposition any chance. The U19s, playing more collective and scoring in every opportunity, did the same.
Overall, two great games form the U17 team where all 26 players could participate, a not so good game from the U19s on Saturday but a good display on Sunday. Luxembourg rugby can be proud of these teams and both opposition clubs were somehow surprised by the quality of rugby the boys played.
Congratulations. 

Portugal Tour Feb 1-3

I think everybody agrees this was a great Tour. Both social and sportive.
We started on Friday by waking up at 3am to take our flight to Porto. The morning was spent visiting the town by bus and a short walking in the center, ending with a visit to one of the famous Porto wine cellars.
Lunch was on a boat that took us up and down the river while with had the local speciality "Francesinha". After lunch we travelled to Santarem for dinner a good sleeping (well... for some).
  


Saturday morning we went to Caldas to play the local club. In the afternoon, lunch and visit Nazaré the place where the now famous biggest wave surfed happened. Another short trip to Óbidos where we could taste the local "ginjinha" (no injuries). Back to Santarém for another great dinner.
Sunday morning we played our hosts, the Santarém Rugby Club, under a superb blue sky. Lunch with our hosts and back to Porto for the flight to Luxembourg.
A great weekend.