Old Reigatian 2nd XV v Old Caterhamiams 2nd XV (Friendly)
With Weybridge Vandals unable to honour the league fixture, a friendly was arranged at Park Lane, and, despite the atrocious weather conditions, ORs managed to secure a comfortable victory against spirited opponents, with some outstanding passages of play, alongside a few lapses in concentration, which kept the game flowing and Cats competing to the final whistle.
Medway RFC v Old Reigatian 1st XV, Match Report
Saturday OR’s travelled to Rochester in Kent to play Medway RFC. Medway, like last week’s opponents have hit a rich vein of form recently winning their last six games. Once Old Reigatians are struggling with injuries missing key players such as Tom Allen, Dan Jones, Sam Foreman & Ryan Taylor Travers.
Old Reigatian 1st XV v Old Alleynians, Match Report
Last Saturday Old Reigatian hosted Old Alleynians, OR’s had a comfortable victory at their ground in Dulwich earlier on in the season with a 14-31 victory. However recently OA’s have been the in form Team in the league winning they last seven games and only failing to score over 50 points twice. Therefore Reigatian sitting one place above OA’s with a single point lead in the league table this was always going to be a tough fixture I’m not sure anybody was prepared for how tough!
Chobham 2nd XV v Old Reigatian 2nd XV (Friendly)
As the half time whistle blew, thoughts turned to how the match report could read at all positively – lines such as ‘Some days the pigeon, but today the statue’, or the Latin phrase ‘O me miserum!’ [Woe is me!] sprang to mind.
Battersea Ironsides v Old Reigatian 1st XV, Match Report
Old Reigatian 1st XV travelled into London to play league leaders Battersea Ironsides. With only two points separating the sides this was always going to be a closely fought game and Saturday was not a disappointment.
Rosslyn Park Nomads v Old Reigatian 2nd XV
The season’s corresponding fixture against the Nomads, at Park Lane in November, ended in narrow win for the visitors – this time out it was the same victor, and similarly a great game of rugby to be involved in.
Cobham 1st XV v Old Reigatian 1st XV, Match Report
Saturday Old Reigatian 1st XV travelled a couple of junctions around the M25 to Cobham. The Home team started the season as one of the Clubs that was expected to be in the mix come April.
Old Reigatian 2nd XV v Battersea Ironsides 3rd XV, Match Report
Having played a friendly at Ironsides last week, the ‘second leg’ at Reigate felt somewhat like a film sequel, but whether it was to be Godfather II or Jaws 2 [the Revenge] remained to be seen.
Old Reigatian 1st XV v Beckenham, Match Report
Last Saturday Old Reigatian 1st XV hosted Beckenham RFC, who for most of the first half of the season were top of the league. However, a few recent defeats going into this game they were third on 52 points, only ahead of Old Reigatian on points difference. Therefore, with 1st in the League Battersea playing second place Reeds and Third Beckenham playing fourth Old Reigatian the top of the table should have some points between each other by the end of the afternoon.
Battersea Ironsides 3rd XV v Old Reigatian 2nd XV, Match Report
With the league visit to Tiffinians cancelled, it was important for ORs A XV to keep momentum building, after the previous weeks’ vibrant outings, so a friendly fixture was organised [thanks to Ed Bartlett] as a replacement.