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Superb Rugby Weekend for Zug Rugby!

The 1stXV won on Sunday 31:0 against Rugby Union Zürich. Solid effort with even more solid defense. Simon, Harry and Breon being the players of the day and Brandon having his great rugby sunday scoring 15 points (with 3 tries!) and also nominated for the rugby crime!

In their first match of the season the 2ndXV did beat Luzern II 8:20. Ian, David B. and Nici got the points for players of the day. David Fischer well deserved the rugby crime. Simon overcame his broken toe and scored 10 points with 1 try, 1 penalty and 1 conversion. And Sebastian Suter had his first game ever  - congratulations.

 

New Start for ZRC I & II

Dear Rugby friends

We had a great start into the NLC season with the 1st XV - 3 matches and 14 points, best defense and best offense of the NLC.

 

1stXV: Great performance against Ticino (54:8) with fast and strong support at breakdowns, real team effort and good communication. Forwards working hard with a stable scrum, excellent pick and go play at the breakdown as well with lots of yard winning rushes. Line-outs have to be worked on. Backs being lined up the better the longer the game was on have been using the gaps created by the forwards for 6 tries - they had also a very good positioning in defense and were faster then Ticino. 9 and 10 have been strong in interlinking forwards and backs and organized a simple but efficient game.

2ndXV: Unfortunately we had not enough players for the first match of the 2nd XV in the 1st League East - please make an effort to sign in also for the 2nds. It's fun and it's important to integrate our young players which are eager to play decent rugby!

Oval regards, Stefan

ZRC MINIS Update

 

 

The new season : After a relaxing summer break, we will start back the new season on Sunday 18^th August; this is the day before the International School starts back. For those that are new, we will run the season up until the snow arrives, normally the end of November, and we will have some tournaments to attend during this time.

New Kits: Dave and I have been looking at new kits and we are about to place an order for new shirts, (shorts and socks will remain the same). We should take delivery of the shirts before the season starts and we will be giving each paid member of the club a shirt free of charge. As usual additional shirts will be available for parents (at cost + a small margin).

 

2012/2013 Player awards : We intend to hold the annual player awards straight after the first day back training session, we would normally hold this on the last playing day of the season; however we were at Lausanne this year. Each and every player will be given a club medal and we will recognise those players that coaches think have made exceptional contributions. If the weather holds out for us (fingers crossed), we would do this in the Unterageri Badi around lunchtime on 18^th August.

 

Zug Rugby Club Tournament : We have already registered ourselves to hold our home tournament on 29^th September 2013. Last year we used the Badi as our base, however, this year we will have to organise most of it ourselves. Please watch this space as we will require a number of volunteers to help on the day.

 

Professional Rugby Coaching : On the weekend of the 24^th August, I have arranged for the academy coaches from Worcester Warriors to come to Zug. They will be running coaching sessions for our coaches, our kids and our senior club. This is a date for your diary as final itinerary is not concluded yet, but both coaches and kids will benefit significantly from these sessions, please watch this space.