THIS WEEK AT ANNAN RUGBY

FOR WEEK BEGINNING 23RD JANUARY

THIS WEEK AT ANNAN RUGBY

Strength & Conditioning Circuits sessions for S1-S6 Boys and Girls continues on Monday

Plus training for all age groups

New players of any or no experience always wanted and welcome.

See https://annanrugby.com/our-teams/ for more info on training

On Friday its Quiz Night at 17 Bank Street. 11 teams have entered so far. Contact Gemma to enter a team.

See https://annanrugby.com/2023/01/12/27th-january-quiz-night/ for more details

On Saturday the 1st XV host Stewartry 1st XV at Violetbank along with the 2nd XV while the P1-P7 Boys and Girls are off to Dumfries Saints.

STOP PRESS: The 2nd XV are now also at home on Saturday v Stewartry while on Sunday both the U14 Girls and U16 Boys are at Violetbank taking on Biggar and Stewartry respectively.


1ST XV HOST STEWARTRY IN A DERBY CLASH

STOP PRESS: The lads go down 26-9. The Annan points coming from the boot of the Josh. – Full Match and Match Report Now Online


On Saturday the 1st XV welcome promotion chasing Stewartry to Violetbank in their latest West 1 league match.

It’s also the 2nd leg the Chisholm Cup, although with the points victory by Stewartry in the 1st leg up at Greenlaw earlier on the season, barring the shock of all shocks, it’s just West 1 league points up for grabs for Annan.

Stewartry come to Violetbank as firm favourites, a title they have held for the last couple of seasons over Annan and the Greenlaw men will be looking for a bonus point win to keep their title ambitions on track along with Garnock.

Annan have not beaten Stewartry in the last 6 encounter in the league and cup and a win for Stewartry on Saturday would give them the outright lead in consecutive wins between the teams. Annan also having 6 consecutive wins between 20015-2019

It’s just over 25 years since the two 1st XV’s met in a competitive (League/Cup/Chisholm cup) match for the first time. That being on the 3rd Jan 1998 at the Greenlaw in the first ever Chisholm Cup match. The clubs of course have played numerous times since the early 70’s but technically they were “friendlies!”

In those 25 years the teams have met 32 times with Annan still holding the edge 18 – 14 in wins but with their current form, it might not be too long until Stewartry finally draw equal.

Annan on Saturday will of course be wanting to stop this as they are still not safe from relegation yet and will be needing as a couple of more wins to secure West 1 survival for next season.

Despite losing the last 4 matches, in every match Annan were just 1 score away from picking up all the points, such is the fine margins in the league this season

Should be a cracking match with both teams fighting for the win for different reasons.

Kick off: 2pm

Starting XV: 1 Ryan Glass 2 Callum Bell 3 Kieran Warrick 4 Neal Coupland 5 Michael Thompson 6 Willie Grey 7 Frazer Hope 8 Sean Haren 9 Fraser McMillan 10 Josh Whiteside 11 James Kirby 12 Alex Halliday 13 Aaron Carmichael 14 Max Thorburn 15 Andrew Jancey

Subs: 16 Kieron Watret 17 Callum Smith 18 Aitken Render 19 Alex Jones


2ND XV ALSO HOST GALLOWAY

STOP PRESS: Galloway prove too strong and the mighty twos lose 41-0. Better 2nd half performance though


The 2nd XV also host Galloway in a friendly match at Violetbank on Saturday.

After being on the road for 6 of their 8 matches so far this season, the lads will once again be glad to get another match at Violetbank.

The 2nd XV players will be wanting to get their first win of the season as they enter the post split league season in a couple of weeks.

With the final few matches of the West Reserve 3 fixtures having been played last Saturday, the 2nd XV found themselves in the bottom 5 of the table.

This means they have 4 matches post split – with 3 at Violetbank. Hopefully these matches will get played but match fulfilment by a number of other teams in the league has not been great but perhaps new year, new players for the other teams might make a difference

Kick off: 2pm

Starting XV: 1. Alan Lee 2. Murray Forbes 3. Adam McMinn 4. Dan Burns 5. Tam Thorburn 6. John Glendinning 7. Stewart Livingstone 8. Callum Taylor 9. Rory Livesey 10. Fin McCartney 11. Kieran Johnstone 12. Declan Ferguson 13. Ben Conroy 14. Danny Lockerby 15. Bradley James

Subs: 16. Luke Clark 18. Matthew Crombie 19. Liam Boyd 20. Craig Bell 21. John James MacKay 22. Alex Hodgson


YOUTH TEAMS IN ACTION

STOP PRESS: The U14 Girls win a 111 point thriller. Edging out Biggar Girls 64 – 57. Well played to both teams  – Match Report and Full Match Now Online

The U16 Boys battle hard but go down 50-10 to Stewartry. Well stuck in lads.

The P1-P7 Tigers were amazing as always.


The mighty P1-P7 Tigers are in action on Sunday at they travel the short distance to Dumfries Saints. 10am meet for a 10.30am start.

The U14 Girls now have home match against Biggar U14 Girls on Sunday. 12pm meet for a 1pm KO while the U16 Boys take on Stewartry, also at Violetbank. 11am KO

As always if you can attend any of this weekend’s matches, your support if always appreciated.



#MonTheAnnan

Other News