CH Rugby

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:55 pm

What what what!?! My husband's school is doing better than Housey at rugby! *And* he's gloating See Housey's results here.... http://www.schoolsrugby.co.uk/schools/school.asp?Id=81

Humph.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:58 am

I have heard that this year's 1stXV isn't as strong as others...

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:01 pm

yes i heard that too and that they beat brighton college the other week which means that brighoton college must have a really weak team as while i was there they were the only school we could never beat!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:15 pm

Brighton College were well known for being strong and also having sports scholarships...

The big battle tended to be between us and Dulwich or Whitgift...

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:58 pm

exactly so for us to beat them with a weak CH side says something about their standard this season! I think our 1xv beat Dulwich college whilst i was there! I know they did very well the 1xv on my deps in the daily mail cup

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:53 pm

I live very near Dulwich College and you can see the pupils practising rugby all spare hours of the day. It's no wonder they're good given the effort they put in.

I suspect CH develops other areas of pupil's lives a bit more than DC does?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:00 pm

Not only that, but aren't dulwich and Whitgift both single sex schools meaning they have twice the number of boys...

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:14 pm

yes DC is just boys. however I wouldn't assume it automatically means they have twice the number of boys available for rugby. the College doesn't seem as big as CH, although of course many of it's pupils aren't boarders.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:18 pm

Women do play rugby as well, you know !!

Big Field at Brockham, (near Dorking), can testify to that !

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:20 pm

I know! But we were just talking about the boys teams.

do the girls play rugby at CH now?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:52 pm

There was a team a couple of years ago but I don't know if there still is...

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:23 pm

Great Plum wrote:There was a team a couple of years ago but I don't know if there still is...

There was a year ago when I contacted head of sport regarding Girls football.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:29 pm

I`m sure there still is.

Mark1 · Post by **Mark1** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:46 pm

blondie95 wrote:yes i heard that too and that they beat brighton college the other week which means that brighoton college must have a really weak team as while i was there they were the only school we could never beat!

Ah, but if you look at the site:

Brighton College 3rdXV

not so impressive

And it'll only get worse, as the number of boys continues to fall... (tho I guess Girls' teams should get better results)

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:12 pm

Great Plum wrote:Brighton College were well known for being strong and also having sports scholarships...

..

It was their third team which CH 1st team beat. That says nothing about their first team. OTOH the results are so bad CH ought just to retire, get a proper coach and regroup for 2010.