Rugby

Tondu faced the Aberavon Green Stars in defence of their title as Ospreys Cup Winners. The Green Stars elected to play with the stiff breeze on this bright spring morning.

Both sides probed each others defences in the early stages and the Stars managed to keep the Junior Waterwheelers from mounting any meaningful attacks.

Play ebbed and flowed with both sides conceding a number of penalties but neither able to capitalise. With loose play near the halfway the Stars managed to engineer a gap in the Tondu defence.  A footrace ensued and the Tondu captain Tom Owen was just unable to prevent a score under the posts. The conversion was successful.

South Coast International Festival of Rugby

Tondu swept to victory in England’s largest festival of rugby. They displayed too much passion, pace, commitment and skill for their opponents and came away deserved winners.

The first day league saw them defeat Battersea Ironsides by 10 tries to nil. Next they eased past the Devon and Cornwall champions from Newton Abbott by 3 unanswered tries. Finally, they made it a clean sweep by putting 7 past local side Gosport and Fareham.

On day two they powered past The Drifters of Farnham to face Hinckley in the semi final. Hinckley succumbed but managed to score once in reply to the Waterwheelers 6.

In the final Tondu faced last year’s winners, and Kent Champions, Cranbrook.

As in earlier games, Tondu played with a level of passion that their opponents could not match and ran out winners by 5 tries to nil.

Many thanks must be extended to our host Bognor Regis RFC for a well organised and friendly venue.

Thanks also to Denise Bradley for organising the trip and to the coaches who have brought the lads to their present high standard.