Fixtures 2017/18

2017/18 was a busy year for Renegades. Having won the league in 2016/17, things became more competitive in a stiffer league with some serious new adversaries. Winning this league was going to be a tall order but a successful third place was ground out and we managed to beat every other team in the league at least once!

League 2015_16

The familiar league finished in January and it was added to by a mixing of the three leagues from Eastern Counties Division One (North, South and West). The top two teams from each league played the top two from each of the other leagues with the scores against the team from their own league counting in this competition also. The same for the third and fourth placed, the fifth and sixth and the bottom two. That was how we found ourselves playing new (to us) teams like Norwich Union, Diss 2, Ipswich and Colchester. We had a series of home games that went well with Renegades beating three of the four visiting teams. The away fixtures were more of a challenge. The travelling made the numbers poor and we lost three away games before failing to field a team in the final away game against Colchester. The Eastern Counties Division Plate finished as follows:

League 2015_16

The season finished with a rip-roaring cup final against Bury St Edmunds Rovers. Things looks pretty bad at half time with Renegades trailing 7-19. However, the game was raised for the second half with Renegades closing the gap so that a couple of minutes from the end the score stood at 24-24. Then the Bury full back got the ball and scorched 60 yards through the Renegades to sore a try which was converted, 24-31. This was a cruel end to the Renegades comeback. There was no answer and a couple of minutes later the final whistle blew. A win would have been sweet, but Renegades were able to take something from a fine second half performance.

The full list of fixtures along with match reports:

   Date   H/AL/C/FKO  Opposing Team  ResultReport
Sep 2HF3:00Cambridge 3Lost 12:36Report...
Sep 9HL3:00Bury St Eds 3Lost 5:17Report...
Sep 16AL3:00Saffron Walden 2Won 18:34Report...
Sep 23HL3:00ThurstonPost-poned
Sep 30HL3:00Shelford 3Won 20:5Report...
Oct 7AL3:00Cantabs 2Won 41:10Report...
Oct 14Free
Oct 21HL3:00Cambridge 3Lost 10:71Report...
Oct 28AL3:00Haverhill
Won 35:19Report...
Nov 4HL2:30Saffron Walden 2Won 86:21Report...
Nov 11AL2:30ThurstonLost 7:50Report...
Nov 18AC2:30HaverhillCon-ceded
Nov 25AL2:30Shelford 3Lost 26:55Report...
Dec 2HL2:00ThurstonWon 36-21Report...
Dec 9HL2:00Cantabs 2Won 31-17Report...
Dec 16AL2:00Cambridge 3Won 24-15Report...
Dec 23AF2:00NewmarketPlayed
Dec 30Free
Jan 6HL2:00HaverhillWon 96-0Report...
Jan 13AL2:00Bury St Eds 3Won 19-12Report...
Jan 20Free
Jan 27Free
Feb 3HL2:00Colchester 3Won 37-5Report...
Feb 11Free
Feb 17HL2:00Diss 2Won 28:12Report...
Feb 24Free
Mar 3HL3:00Norwich UnionPost-pon-ed
Mar 10HL3:00Ipswich 2Won 36:6Report...
Mar 17Free
Mar 24AL3:00Ipswich 2Lost 22:36Report...
Mar 31HL3:00Norwich UnionLost 15:29Report...
Apr 7AL3:00Norwich UnionLost 10:29Report...
Apr 14AL3:00Diss 2Lost 29:51Report...
Apr 21AL3:00Colchester 3Can-
celled
Apr 28AC4:30Bury St EdmundsLost 24:31Report...

And, of course, our table of top scorers was hotly contested between Baz and Ross, both of whom made it to three figures with Baz shaving it in the end. Baz had the good grace to acknowledge that many of the points he got were from converting Ross’s tries!

   Renegade Scorer   
TryPenDropConvPoints
Andrew 'Baz' MacKay2934105
Ross Catchpole20100
Ollie Witt1470
Ben Powell1155
Dan Stockbridge323
55
Will Blackwell1050
Tom Powell735
Jack Weatherley31630
David Fletcher Morris4122
Elliott Roberts420
Tom Heathcote420
Stuart 'Fabio' Faben2319
Tom Cowley2520
Tom Proctor315
Rolando Pesci315
Rhys Stephens210
Aaron Stevens210
Chris 'Machine' Machen210
Matt Faiers15
Daniel 'Ginger Dan' Leith15
Daniel 'Ginger Dan' Leith15
Adam 'Speedie' Richards15
Jake Sweet15
Andy Howard15
Harry Cowley12
Total10016070688