Coaches from Marple Junior Rugby Club will be representing the club at the Mellor show at Mellor Primary School on Saturday 24th July at Mellor Primary School. As well as teaching some of the essential skills of rugby we will have “Henry”, a popular game from our club fun days. We hope to see you there!

Sunday,

After breakfast met up at 9.30am for journey to Bugbrooke. Another beutiful morning, saw us arrive in the village of Bugbrooke in Northants. Welcomed by Ian the coach,  we changed and arrived on the pitch for a teamphoto of ourselves, Bugbrooke and Milton Keynes our opponents on the day. There was a trophy up for grabs today and after speaking to the Bletchley coach, we knew we were in for 2 tough games, as MK had beaten Bletchley and Bugbrooke were ” hot “. (more…)

Friday.

All met at Club for 5.15pm departure to Milton Keynes. 1st fine to Rob, Camerons dad for being late. Arrived at hotel, found room, dropped bags and all met up in bar for a quick drink before dinner. Everyone got stuck into the food and drink, before retiring to bed , for a early morning swim and the following days rugby, another fine for 1st to bed, Bills dad Neale. (more…)

The weekend of 9/10 April and Marple U11s bravely ventured to Tyneside for their first rugby tour, staying at a Holiday Inn just north of Newcastle at Seaton Burn. (more…)

Marple 70 Trafford MV 28

An excellent win for Marple with some very good moves and positive contributions across the whole squad. (more…)

A test for the boys today , to see how far we have come this season. We played Trafford MV on the opening day of this season and came away with a 36 – 0 win, although against an understrength team. This time MV brought a full squad and could Marple find some consistency. (more…)

Glossop 35 Marple 28

A really well fought game between a good bunch of lads on both sides. But for a couple of errors (e.g. overunning the try line again), Marple could have snuck this to complete a season double over Glossop. (more…)

In 5 yrs of coaching at Marple, we have usually been on the end of some real drubbings from Congleton, so we entered this game expecting a really tough match. But within 10 minutes and Marple 28-0 up, scored by Alistair, Sam,Haydn,Lewis all converted by Nick,we realised that Congleton were in a redevelopment stage. We then used our full squad with substitutions and congleton started to  compete well, but a couple of further tries from Alistair and Conor, both converted by Nick gave us a h/t lead of 42-0. (more…)

We arrived at Winnington expecting a competative game, but after 5 minutes, the expectation was blown away. Maybe the boys were expecting to take off from last weeks win against Buxton, but reality hit fast. Straight from the kick off Winnington were through 0-5 after just 30 seconds and before long it was  0-10, then the boys woke up and tried to compete, but Park scored 3 more tries H / T 31 – 0 (more…)

Buxton arrived at Marple with a squad of just 12 players, but were determined to give a good show. Three players agreed to play for Buxton and they all played with credit. this match was played for 25 mins each way and buxton have improved, since we last played them in December. But tries from Haydn (3), Richard, Lewis, Jordan, Jacob, Bill, Sam and Joel and conversions from Alistair, Sam and Cameron gave Marple a 64-0 win.