Spalding RFC

Late push fails to upset leaders

Spalding 12Market Bosworth 26 A second-half recovery was not quite enough for Spalding to topple league leaders Market Bosworth. The visitors dominated the first half, hardly letting Spalding out of their half and led 21-0 at the break.The Leicestershire team extended their lead to 26 points before Spalding clawed their way back with two tries.Earlier in the season Bosworth had ...

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Poor second half show sees Spalding fall to Stockwood

Stockwood Park 33Spalding 14 Spalding travelled to Stockwood Park, Luton, knowing that they had never lost to the home team in league games. However back in November, at Centenary Park, Spalding scraped home by the narrowest of margins 28-27 so a closely fought game was being expected by all.Within two minutes of kicking off it looked like Stockwood would be ...

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Spalding put in poor show against bottom of table

Spalding 14 Long Buckby 14 Spalding came agonisingly close to a victory despite a poor performance against Long Buckby on Saturday. Earlier in the season Spalding first team had won 33-17 in the corresponding fixture in Northamptonshire.The visitors are now firmly rooted to the bottom of Counties 1 Midlands East (South) table with just the one win, whilst Spalding are ...

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Fierce local derby ends in close defeat for Spalding

Stamford 21Spalding 17 Having lost narrowly to Stamford at home early in the season, captain Luke Turner knew it would take one of the team’s best performances to date to come away with a win at their ground on Saturday, with them sitting comfortably third in the Counties I Midlands East (South) league. A local derby always ensured a fierce ...

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Spalding end a brilliant centenary year with a win

Spalding 29 Bugbrooke 8 A Conall Mason hat trick got Spalding back to winning ways on Saturday against Bugbrooke who are second from bottom in the league. With a number of players injured or not available, Colts James Holland and Sam Christie started on the wings together with second team player Jack Asplen making his first start alongside newcomer Fergus ...

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Book to mark rugby club’s centenary

It’s been a brilliant centenary year for Spalding Rugby Club, and to end it a book detailing its history has been released. Spalding Rugby Football Club – A History of the First Hundred Years, has been written by former chairman John Constable and local historian Rex Sly.The book has been two years in the making.“You’re only going to be 100 ...

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Confusion after ref abandons match

There was confusion after Spalding Rugby Club’s match with Peterborough Lions was abandoned halfway through the first period on Saturday. The club’s players and officials were left surprised when the referee ended proceedings in the Counties One Midlands East (South) around the 20-minute mark.It followed a flash point between the sides.It has been reported elsewhere that all of the players ...

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Referee calls early halt to one-sided encounter

Spalding first team had no game but it was still a busy weekend at Centenary  Park. On Friday evening, the Colts played Lincoln in the NLD Colts League and a brilliant performance resulted in a 76-5 win.They have won their last five league games, scoring 205 points with just 36 points conceded and are becoming the top team in the three ...

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Spalding’s interval lead slips

Spalding 12Leicester Vipers 17 Having clawed their way back in the first half to take a two-point lead at half-time, Spalding failed to keep the momentum going. It was Vipers who notched the only score in the second half with a converted try to pick up all the Counties Midlands 1 East (South) points.The Leicester side were fifth in the ...

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Spalding put on good show against top of the league

Market Bosworth 46 Spalding 17 Spalding knew they were up for a challenging afternoon at Counties One Midlands East (South) division leaders Market Bosworth but they acquitted themselves well, especially in the first half.The opening minutes of the game set the tone with Bosworth having a scrum 20 metres out and they immediately pushed Spalding back ten metres,.The whole of ...

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Close encounter as Spalding win at home

Spalding 28Stockwood Park 27 Stockwood Park from Luton arrived at Centenary Park lying in seventh place in Counties 1 Midlands East (South) league, one place below Spalding.With the visitors looking for their first away win of the season, Spalding were fielding a strong looking team after a home victory.Making his debut for Spalding was lock Fergus McKerracher and there was ...

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Nigel shocked by Great Britain call up

A Donington snooker player and fundraiser for the Motor Neurone Disease Association has been selected to represent Great Britain at the World Disability Games in Thailand. Nigel Brasier, who has a from of the condition called Primary Lateral Sclerosis, is no stranger to playing abroad and has enjoyed another successful season on the World Disability Snooker tour.He’s in Germany this ...

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Bourne take derby glory

There was no match for Spalding first team but the seconds were in a top-of-the-table local derby action at Bourne.However, it was the hosts who romped clear at the top of the Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire & Derbyshire RFU Merit Two East table with a 45-7 success to end the visitors’ winning start to the season.Spalding Veterans’ home meeting against Thorney was called ...

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Spalding fail to see off 11-man hosts

Daventry 20 Spalding 12 Poor decision making and execution saw Spalding slip to defeat against the ‘invincible’ early-season Counties One Midlands East (South) leaders. Daventry had won their previous four league games and went undefeated throughout all last season.However, Spalding looked well equipped to lower their colours going into the final stages of a keenly contested encounter.The hosts had lost a ...

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Large crowd watch Spalding on way to win

Spalding 21Oakham 7 Spalding welcomed Oakham to Centenary Park on their President’s Day with both teams having won two out of three games since the start of the season in Counties 1 Midlands East (South) league.Coming into the team were two of Spalding’s up and coming young players, Jack Grundy flanker and James Holland at fullbackIn front of a large ...

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Spalding fall after bad start at Bugbrooke

Bugbrooke 30Spalding RFC 22 With two early season wins in the league, Spalding travelled over to Bugbrooke near Northampton for their first ever league encounter with the home team, who had lost both their opening games. With a large home crowd due to their annual beer fest and three other games already played, the scene was set for a challenging ...

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Elephants at home in new base

Spalding made it two wins out of two as they started life at their new Centenary Park home with a 34-6 victory over Peterborough Lions in Counties League One Midlands East (South). There was a big build up and excited expectations to the Elephants’ first home league game at the Drain Bank North ground, welcoming the Lions, who only a few ...

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Spalding enjoy first day glory

Spalding cruised to victory on the opening day of the new Midlands Counties One East (South) with a 24-17 success at local rivals Bourne. The step up in class after last season’s promotion did not faze the visitors, who matched their hosts in a good competitive game in which the lead changed hands several times.Spalding’s pre-season training had gone well, with ...

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Poignant service for Steve’s MBE

A very special presentation will be made this week to a stalwart of Spalding Rugby Club who disarmed a terrorist during the attack on London Bridge in 2019. Steve Machin was awarded the MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours and will be presented with the medal at his Spalding home on Friday.Lincolnshire’s Lord Lieutenant Toby Dennis will meet Steve and ...

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Elephants face Bourne opener

Spalding will start the 2023/24 season in Counties One Midlands East (South) after their nail-biting charge to promotion last season. They pipped Stewart & Lloyds to the second promotion place by the slender margin of just four match points after the rivals ended the season locked on 76 points.Their reward is a place at the higher level and derby encounters against both Bourne and ...

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