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Warlingham get relegation reprieve ahead of season finale
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Warlingham, sitting in apparent safety in eighth place in 12-club London 3 South-West, have been given a relegation reprieve ahead of their visit to bottom-of-the-table Basingstoke today, with an undertaking from a self-declared “Twickenham blazer” that only the … Continue reading
Warlingham in peril of relegation for being in Surrey
RUGBY ROUND-UP: The long-standing order of the Croydon area’s rugby clubs could be about to be turned on its head in a relegation battle that depends less on the clubs’ position in their league tables, and more to do with … Continue reading
Whitgiftians move closer to securing Surrey rugby title
RUGBY ROUND-UP: With four local clubs in the division, Surrey 1 was always going to provide some keen interest this season. As Old Whitgiftians, MidWives, Walcountians and Chipstead enter the final lap of the 2018 club rugby race, no one … Continue reading
World Cup-winning captain is helping out at Frant Road
RUGBY ROUND-UP: A World Cup-winning captain is coming to Thornton Heath next week to help Croydon’s up-and-coming young players. Katy Daley-McLean led England to women’s Rugby World Cup glory in 2014, played at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and was a … Continue reading
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MidWives deliver to set-up top-of-the-table derby clash
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Halfway into the 2017-2018 rugby season and it’s clear that in Croydon this winter, Surrey 1 is where it is at. And after the break for Christmas – no one likes to fill-up the local A&Es with broken … Continue reading
32-try Wilson retires from England, as RFU cuts women’s pay
RUGBY ROUND-UP: She should be recognised among Croydon’s finest ever international sports performers. But at 26, former Warlingham wing Kay Wilson has announced her retirement No real reason was offered publicly, but just hours after her omission from the England … Continue reading
Giant Priest rewards Warlingham for their faith with a try
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Warlingham had gone more than a year without a league victory. So long, in fact, that they risked becoming a quiz question on Pointless. But after the batterings suffered last season, the Hamsey Green club has started the … Continue reading
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Harlequins name Warlingham community club of the year
The rugby season hasn’t even kicked off yet, but Warlingham have already picked up an award. The Hamsey Green-based club has been named as Harlequins community club of the year. The award might have been given a bit of a … Continue reading
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Warlingham have expansion plan after busy recruitment drive
SLACK STEVENS, our ageing front row with no front teeth, reports on changes going on at the area’s top-ranked rugby club It’s fair to say that Warlingham want to forget the 2016-2017 season. After all, they went an entire league … Continue reading
Warlingham elects Surrey rugby’s first woman president
Warlingham, the area’s biggest rugby club, has elected Debbie Lockwood as its new president. It makes the Hamsey Green-based club the first in Surrey to have a woman president. Lockwood is the club’s 22nd president. She has been a member … Continue reading
Proms on the Pitch coming to Warlingham on Aug 27
Croydon is to get its very own outdoor Proms concert later this summer. The first Proms On The Pitch, at Warlingham rugby club, will be staged on the evening of Sunday, August 27, with Nigel Garrard and his Orchestra performing … Continue reading
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Rugby club challenges women to discover their ‘Inner Warrior’
Warlingham rugby club is hosting an initiative from the gverning body of the game in England, the RFU, to challenge women and girls, aged from 18 to 40 years old, to discover their “Inner Warrior” and try a taster session … Continue reading
Two up, two down: Whitgiftians near promotion despite stalling
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Two up, two down. No, not a local estate agent’s description of an over-priced house on a busy Croydon street, but the fate of the local rugby clubs in the season that has all-but-finished, with two enjoying promotion campaigns, … Continue reading
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Robshaw returns home to boost Warlingham’s Wildcats
Chris Robshaw, the former England rugby captain who learned the game at Warlingham, was back at the club last weekend to encourage the latest generation of mini and junior players, as well as the thriving new girls’ and women’s section … Continue reading
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Rugby wizard Wilson scores magnificent seven for England
History was made in the oldest international rugby fixture yesterday. No, not the Calcutta Cup rugby match where England’s men enjoyed a record score over the Scots at Twickenham, but just up the road at The Stoop, where in the … Continue reading
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Warren given urgent rugby rescue mission by Warlingham
After a worse start to the season than even Crystal Palace, the area’s leading rugby club, Warlingham, has gone out and recruited Nick Warren as their new director of rugby. Warlingham have played at London regional level since 2006, but … Continue reading
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Rugby club hands over £7,500 donation to cancer charity
Warlingham rugby club has handed over more than £7,500 to Cancer Research UK, money raised at the classic car show staged at Hamsey Green in July this year. More than 350 classic cars and 200 motor bikes came to exhibit … Continue reading
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Whitgift duo set to be reunited for England at Twickenham
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Elliot Daly, the former Whitgift School pupil, will make his first start for England at Twickenham on Saturday in the autumn international against South Africa. Daly, the Wasps centre, has been included in head coach Eddie Jones’s side … Continue reading
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Leonard props up at Warlingham’s international rugby festival
Warlingham rugby club’s recruitment of kitchen staff appears to be thriving, as last weekend they had World Cup-winning prop forward Jason Leonard dishing up the food at an international mini festival for eight- to 12-year-olds staged at Hamsey Green. Teams … Continue reading
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Purley’s derby day delight as MidWives fail to deliver
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Local derbies galore, a first league win for one club in two years, and a tough first few games have characterised the opening month of the season Purley John Fisher claimed an important win on Saturday, with a … Continue reading
Warlingham to host Saracens’ summer rugby camp, Aug 30-31
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Warlingham is hosting its final kids’ rugby summer camp of the holidays at Hamsey Green next week, Tuesday and Wednesday, August 30-31. For boys and girls aged from five to 13, the organisers already have around 40 youngsters … Continue reading
Warlingham car show wows thousands in the sunshine
The season of community festivals and fairs is well under way, and events staged this weekend just gone got lucky with probably the best weather of our damp summer so far. The organisers of the annual vintage car show staged … Continue reading
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Warlingham car show’s driving force for cancer charities
The Classic Car and Motor Bike Show returns to Warlingham rugby club on Limpsfield Road on July 17, confident of bettering the £4,000 raised for cancer charities in 2015. More than 350 classic cars and 100 motor bikes turned up … Continue reading
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Rugby club helps new players keep their tackles safe
“Safety first” is perhaps not the “sexiest” message for a publicity drive, but down on the fringes of Croydon, Warlingham rugby club has adopted exactly that approach by ordering a job lot of branded condoms to hand out to new … Continue reading
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