Aylesbury RFC
Player’s Dinner
Friday 16th May 2008

Just £20 will guarantee your seat at this Gala evening featuring Fine Cuisine, Entertainment and Culture (well, some scran, bad jokes and the odd bacterial infection)

This will also mark the last time certain of our esteemed Vets Squad can attend the dinner as “Players” so please ensure you join your team-mates/elders and betters for this celebration of seasons past and present.

Beer will be a budget-busting £1 per pint and yes, Alastair Darling IS officially banned from the event.

Please secure your place ASAP by registering your interest with your team captain and furnishing him with the required £20.

Limited Tickets will be available on the night for £25 so get in early to guarantee a cheap seat.

Dress Code for the evening will be Shirt, Club Tie and NO JEANS.

In the second half, both teams enjoyed good periods of territorial advantage but both were unable to capitalise on it.  The powerful Chesham pack gave Aylesbury a number of problems to think about but good consistent tackling and ball handling kept A’s on top.  Just as the half looked like it was going to end scoreless, Aylesbury Winger Matt Fitchett scored his first try of the season, following a great interception and sprint from within his own half.  The home team then countered with their final try, squeezed right in the corner but, at the whistle, it was Aylesbury who ran-out clear winners by 32-17.

A hat-trick of tries from winger Rob Kempton and some fine attacking runs from Jack Whitehouse helped Aylesbury U-15’s to a comfortable 32-17 win away at High Wycombe in round one of the Bucks Cup on Sunday.Aylesbury’s first competitive game of the season didn’t start well, as Wycombe’s strong pack quickly laid siege to their visitor’s line, resulting in an early try.  Aylesbury fought back with some fine kicking, allowing Kempton to level the score with a battling run down the right.  Good scrummaging and distribution helped Aylesbury maintain territorial advantage in the first half and a swerving run from scrum-half Charlie Esdon scored A’s second try, converted by Whitehouse, to put Aylesbury 12-5 ahead at the break.

In the second half, Tawanda Bwerudza stormed through with an early try from short range, after a long penetrating run from Whitehouse had set up a scrum-five.  Wycombe immediately struck back however, after another show of power on the Aylesbury line.  Aylesbury then responded with sustained attacks into the Wycombe half, resulting in two further tries for Kempton and a well deserved solo effort from Whitehouse, to put the result beyond doubt.  Wycombe rallied for a consolation try & conversion just before the end, but it was too late to prevent revenge for Aylesbury for their defeat by Wycombe in last year’s competition.