Westmount Rugby Club

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All are welcome, especially westmount rugby clubs wives, girlfriends and Old boys!  After we beat The Braves on the 11TH we can get together and watch another beating (UFC).

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On Saturday June 27th the Ravens travelled north to battle long standing rivals the Laval Nomades.

On a grey, humid, rainy day the players were greeted by a playing field doing a great impersonation of a swimming pool. The Ravens came to win today and got off to a great start with new dad, Hasashi crashing over for a try after just 5 minutes of play.

New import Tom Ash calmly added the extra 2 points to have the Ravens up by 7. It was up & down the paddock for the next 15 minutes until a lapse in defensive concentration allowed the Nomades to level up at 7 points a piece.

Both sides knuckled down and there was no score until the 10th minute of the second half when Laval scooped a loose ball in open play and made a break down the right touch line to eventually get over for the last score of the match. The Ravens gave a hard push in the last 15 minutes to try & force the win. They had the Noamdes stuck on their own goal line for the last 10 minutes but there defense held firm and the final result was 14-7 to Laval.

While it was our 3rd straight loss for the 2009 season we have certainly made vast improvement and our first win is just around the corner. Overall, positional play and execution was greatly improved from the last match, especially considering the very wet, greasy conditions.

It was a difficult task to select a man of the match with several stand out efforts. In the end it went to debutant Alejandro Ludert, playing at prop for his hard straight running and solid scrum work.

Congratulations to Alejandro and well done to all players for showing that fighting Raven spirit and pushing Laval right to the final whistle.

We will get them next time!

NEW TIME: 1:30 pm for the game against laval.  We need to be at the field no later than 12:30 pm at Laurier Secondary High School in Laval.  For directions visit Google maps.

Breakfast will be at the usual place and time should be confirmed tomorrow.

Fly, fly

Score a try

Kick, kick

Kick it through

This is what we gotta do

 

Hit’em hard and tackle low

This is how they’ll know

They’re playing Westmount now

 

Westmount, Westmount

That’s who we are

But that don’t mean

We’re just happy to play the game

We want to win it all the same

 

Know it, know it

Yes, know it well

We’re here to make it hell

AS never not easy

Is how it should be

When Westmount is who you play

 

So we’ll run and run

And run it hard

As we score many a try

A nd kicks of course are surely good

That is but what

We’re going to do

 

-          Charles Petrice

 

Last game I forgot to add the new straight arm man of the match.  Karl was awarded the straight arm man of the match due to his hard running.  The straight arm was never completed so it looks like there could be a penality for Karl.

This weekend’s game is against Laval and it is going to be a cracker!

This week training is on for Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30pm til late. It is important that we all attend this week and next week as we have two weeks off and we need to maintain our fitness.

Our first fome game of the season is this Saturday at 3pm, Westmount Park against the Montreal Barbarians.  Please bring along family and friends to the game.

Westmount’s utility player Hugh McGuire was recently featured in the National Post for his work in the field of online Literature.  Well done McGuire!  It does explain the mystry of the missed training sessions.

Thanks Jeremy for spoting this article. Are you become our online Stalker?

This season we have a new tradition for the man of the match.  For the Westmount player who is awarded Man of the Match by his peers he is required to straight arm a pint of beer.

So far this season we have two winners of this award:

Adam and English Tommy!  

The Westmount Player who wins the most straight arm awards will be required to straight arm a Peel Pub Jumbo Jug. The favourite to win the award is Guillaume