This weekend


By Frank Stormont
February 16 2007

Plymouth Albion Ladies host Old Albanian Saints at Brickfields. Sunday Roast available before the match in the Sports Bar.

 

This weekend

Sunday Special!

Old Albanian Satints Website

Sunday 2pm

This Sunday sees Plymouth Albion Ladies host Old Albanian Saints at Brickfields @ 2pm. With Warriors playing away and Albion men not having a fixture this could be your only chance to see the Albion colours on the pitch.

The ladies are now doing well sitting 5th in the table and having won 5 of their last 6 matches and this week take on the 7th placed side. Their poor start seems well behind them and with OAs having two matches in hand it should be a tight match and good to watch. The saints became the only team not to beat Rosslyn Park this season when they drew 5 all at home, a point which is unlikely to be missed by Albion.

Team P W D L F A B Pts Pts
wClifton 13 13 0 0 673 41 10 62
wThirsk 13 9 0 4 360 152 7 43
wSaracens II 14 9 0 5 310 271 7 43
wRichmond II 14 7 0 7 245 234 7 35
wPlymouth A 14 7 1 6 196 279 3 33
wWaterloo 14 6 1 7 154 287 5 31
wOld Albanians 12 5 1 6 131 122 5 27
wWasps II 13 5 0 8 201 361 5 25
wLeos 12 3 0 9 125 226 7 19
wRosslyn Park 13 0 1 12 69 491 2 4

Last week the ladies travelled to Redruth and came away with a win. Playing with a man down for twenty minutes Albion held on as Redruth scored two tries in the last 15 minutes or so to reduce the margin to just two points.

That was last week and now this week Tristan Forster has almost a full squad available for selections including Georgina Rozario who has been selected for England A and was on national training last weekend. Tristan is confident of a favourable result and will be looking to chase 5 tries for a bonus point.

Why not take advantage of an Albion Sunday Roast served from 12 - 2 in the sports bar. Main Course £6 - two courses £7.50 or three for £8.50.
No pre booking required just turn up and order at the bar.

Albion matters

Just in case you had missed the publicity Albion's fixture against Nottingham this Saturday has had to be postponed due to the Coventry v Nottingham cup match not being able to be played last week.

Don't worry it will be played in the future and if Nottingham beat Coventry  in the EDF Energy National Trophy match we will play them twice at Brickfields as we have drawn the winners in the quarter final to be played at 2:30 on 3rd March.

Albion have advised that tickets purchased for the Nottingham league match will be valid for the new date as and when it is set as will match day hospitality. Tickets will NOT be reissued but if the new date has been set a full refund will be available if not suitable to you.

The date will be fixed for the first free weekend but if either Nottingham or Albion reach the final this match may need to be played after the end of the season.

This blank weekend is the first one this season and so will be much appreciated by players that may have niggling injuries.

Leeds are now 4 to 1 on favourites to win the league with Albion 20/1 5th favourites.

Only 3 matches are left in the league unaffected by the problems of the weather last week.

Doncaster v Leeds
London Welsh v Rotherham Titans
Sedgley Park v Moseley

EDF Energy National Trophy matches.

Bedford Blues v Exeter Chiefs
Pertemp Bees v Nuneaton
Coventry v Nottingham

 

Westcountry Warriors

The warriors are away this weekend to London Scottish in the Canterbury Shield.

TEAM P W D L F A Diff Pts
London Welsh 10 10 0 0 393 119 274 30
Esher 10 8 0 2 319 118 201 24
Newbury 8 5 0 3 265 213 52 15
Plymouth 10 5 0 5 182 187 -5 15
Rosslyn Park 11 5 0 6 193 292 -99 15
Blackheath 8 4 0 4 206 135 71 12
London Scottish 7 2 0 5 116 207 -91 6
Glamorgan Wanderers 8 2 0 6 119 235 -116 6
Richmond 10 0 0 10 125 405 -280 0

Last Sunday the Warriors put 6 tries to nil over Redruth Development with the advantage of Wihan Neethling returning to fitness and Chris Lowrie playing half the match at hooker and running in 2 tries.