LAST WEEK AT ANNAN RUGBY

Monday

Walking Rugby – all welcome. 6pm to 7pm up at Violetbank

See Walking Rugby for more details on Walking Rugby. All ages welcome for the Walking Rugby

U14-U16 Girls/Boys Strength and Conditioning continues. 6pm to 7.30pm

Thursday

Ages 17+ training. 7pm to 8.30pm. Join the team!

Friday

P1-P7 training continues. 6pm start up at Violetbank. New players most welcome

See Training for more info on training. All ages welcome. No rugby experience necessary.

Saturday

U18 Boys at home to Renfrewshire Raiders. 11.30am KO

The 1st XV host Ardrossan while the 2nd XV are on the road to Strathendrick. 3pm KO

Wales v Portugal and Ireland v Tonga on at the Clubhouse after the 1st XV match.

Sunday

The P1-P7 Tigers start their season away to Biggar Rugby. 10.30am meet for a 11am start

The U14 Girls are off to Stewarty for a Girls Rugby Festival. 1pm start

The U16 Girls have a derby match away to Dumfries U16 Girls. 12pm KO

The U14 Boys are on the road to Wigtownshire to face the hosts and others. 1pm Start

The U16 Boys are also away to face Kilmarnock. 2pm KO

We have a team at home! When the Warriors take on Greenock Ladies. 2pm KO

Finally, the Australia v Fiji match will be on at the clubhouse after the Warriors match

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1ST XV IN FIRST V SECOND CLASH

STOP PRESS: The lads go down 17-30. The Annan tries from Sean, Willix and Jonny. Onto the next one lads.

Match report and photos – Now Online

In the most open West 1 league for many a year, only 2 teams after 2 games remain unbeaten – Annan and Ardrossan.

Ardrossan beat Kilmarnock last week who Annan beat the week before. Ardrossan win was larger so based on that small stat, Ardrossan perhaps go into this match as slight favourites, but with Annan at home and Player/Coach Juan instilling a belief into this Annan team it should be a cracker of a match.

The last meeting in 2022 at Violetbank was a win for the home side, but the last meeting in 2023 was a win for Ardrossan.

Overall Ardrossan have the edge 5 wins to 1 win. 1 match was a draw. 4 of those wins and the draw where all 17-20 years ago so unless Kieron Watret plays, there will be no players from that era playing on Saturday!

Should be a great match, and although it is only 3 matches in, the winner on Saturday will be in the early season driving seat for the title.

3pm KO up at Violetbank

Starting XV: 1 Ryan Glass, 2 Callum Bell, 3 Juan Phyfer, 4 Michael Thompson, 5 Callum Taylor, 6 Alex Halliday, 7 Callum Smith, 8 Sean Haren, 9 Fraser McMillan, 10 Josh Whiteside, 11 Alex Jones, 12 Adam Torbett, 13 Jonny Callaghan, 14 James Kirby, 15 Andrew Jancey

Subs: 16 Eben LeVin, 17 Murray Forbes, 18 Aitken Render, 19 Ewan Campbell

2ND XV ON THE ROAD

STOP PRESS: The 2nd XV lost 37-12. Match Report and photos – Now Online

If there is one phrase that has been overused in the last 5 seasons, it’s the “2nd XV on the road”.

Through no fault of their own, the 2nd XV seem to travel more for their matches than they get at home.

This match is the start a run of 6 away games in the next 8 fixtures. The 2nd XV will of course get 5 home fixtures in the last 7 weeks of the season and fingers crossed that the central belt teams will be willing to travel to Violetbank. A distance that seems to stop many a team from traveling!

Anyway, onto Saturdays match. Opponents Strathendrick and Annan met back in 2020 at Strathendrick, when the hosts ran out 22-10 winners.

Annan lost their opening match to Kilmarnock 2 weeks ago but with players returning from injury and unavailability the 2nd string has not been this strong for many a season and Saturdays match should be a great advert for 2nd XV rugby.

3pm KO

Starting XV: 1 Craig Stephanie, 2 John McKay, 3 Ben Sweeney, 4 Duncan Kerr, 5 Kyle Rennie, 6 Josh Cairns, 7 James Morrison,
 8 Ryan Armstrong (C) 9 Bradley James, 10 Scott Muir, 11 Luke Clark, 12 Declan Ferguson (VC), 13 John Glendining, 14 Jack Ogilvie, 15 Kieran Johnston.

Subs: 16 Kyle Bell, 17 Tam Thorburn 

WARRIORS AT HOME TO GREENOCK

STOP PRESS: The Warriors draw 15-15 in a game, 2 late Greenock tries denied the Warriors their 1st win of the season. Tries from Niamh, Mally and Nicole B.

Match Report, photos, tries and the full match – Now Online

The Warriors are at home on Sunday as they face old rivals Greenock Wanderers Ladies at Violetbank.

The Warriors are still to record their first win of the season but despite the defeats Coach Warrick is seeing improvements each week and that elusive win is not that far away.

Greenock and the Warriors have met 7 times with the Wanderers having the upper hand with 6 wins to 1. The Warriors have never won in their 4 encounters at Violetbank but will be more than aiming to stop that run on Sunday.

Coach Warrick will be hoping the week off last week due to injuries will have allowed the injured players to recover and have a fully raring to go Warriors squad to pick from

2pm KO

Warrior Starting XV: 1) Eilidh Jardine 2) Megan Brogan 3) Julie Warrick 4) Tammy Allinson 5) Nicole Mullen 6) Ashley Clark © 7) Ashley Cole 8) Kayleigh Warrick 9) Niamh Ross10) Nicole Barlow 11) Lexie Glendinning 12) Malvina McGeoch 13) Jane Stewart 14) Amber Pattullo 15) Zoe Mitchell

Replacements 16) Katie Morrison 17) Jamie Graham 18) Erin Ewing 19) Emilia Szelag 20) Laura McGregor 21) Megan Cother

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YOUTH TEAMS IN ACTION

STOP PRESS: Unfortunately the U18 Boys match is off as the opposition could not raise the numbers to travel while the U16 Boys is postponed to a later TBC date

The U16 Girls lose in a 79 point thriller 47-32 to Dumfries. Great performance from the girls who ran in 6 great tries,

The U14 Boys had a great tournament, beating the hosts and Stewartry but losing to Dumfries. Well played lads.  Match Report – Now Online

The U14 Girls joined Wigtownshire and had a great sat of rugby.

Its a busy weekend with only the U18 Girls resting this weekend

The P1-P7 Tigers start their season at old friends Biggar Rugby. Parents and players to meet at 10.30am for a 11am start.

The U14 Girls travel to Stewartry Rugby for the 2nd round of the Girls Rugby Festival Challenge. 1pm start

The U14 Boys are on the road to Wigtownshire to face the hosts, Dumfries and Stewartry. 1pm Start

The U16 Boys have a tough match as they travel to Kilmarnock in their latest league match. The U16 Boys are undefeated this season with 2 wins from 2 but Kilmarnock at home are always tough opponents. 2pm KO

The big match of the day will be at Park Farm as the U16 Girls travel to short distance to Dumfries. A win on Sunday would consolidate 2nd spot in the league so all to play for. 11am KO

Good luck to all the teams this weekend.